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World
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Region
5/21/2013 6:43:09 PM
UNICEF warns that up to 20,000 civilians, mainly women and children, could be trapped by harsh fighting in the Syrian town of Qusayr
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Life & Style
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Health
5/20/2013 10:37:40 AM
A condition that causes extremely painful periods and bleeding may be associated with thinner figures
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Arts & Culture
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Film
5/19/2013 7:25:47 PM
On picking up an award at Cannes for 'Wadjda', a film on a Saudi woman on a bicycle to protest the driving ban, filmmaker says the ultra-conservative kingdom is becoming more accepting
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World
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Region
5/19/2013 11:28:53 AM
Raha Moharrak, makes history as she became the first Saudi Arabian woman to scale Mount Everest, the world's highest peak
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World
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Region
5/19/2013 10:26:58 AM
At least 29 people are killed, including 11 women and 4 children, when cattle raiders from a South Sudanese minority tribe opened fire on members of another minority in a village in Upper Nile state
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World
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International
5/18/2013 1:27:37 PM
Conservative lawmakers in Afghanistan block a law that aims to protect women's freedoms claiming parts of it violate Islamic sharia
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World
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Region
5/17/2013 4:16:04 PM
Iranian hardline cleric says law prohibits women from running for presidential elections
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World
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Region
5/16/2013 5:14:06 PM
The president of Iran will be elected from 'religious-political men' and no women are allowed to be presidential candidates, a member of the watchdog Guardian Council said
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Arts & Culture
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Film
5/15/2013 5:14:28 PM
Film competition titled 'Women in the New Egypt,' to be hosted by British Embassy in Cairo, British Council and Misr International Films (Youssef Chahine), launches call for proposals
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Egypt
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Politics
5/15/2013 10:01:33 AM
Protesters block railway, road and surround security directorate in Gharbiya's Kafr El-Zayyat over woman's disappearance
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Egypt
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Politics
5/14/2013 5:50:51 PM
Death of a woman outside Misr International University provoked protests by students, who frequently complain about the unsafe road
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Egypt
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Politics
5/13/2013 5:32:15 PM
Nour Party MPs argue that Iranian tourism to Egypt threatens national security and will undermine the country's 'Sunni doctrine'
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World
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International
5/13/2013 1:39:40 PM
In a video message, Nigerian Islamist group, Boko Haram, claims responsibility for two major attacks on Nigerian towns and hold women and children as hostages until the military releases the group's relatives
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World
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Region
5/12/2013 6:21:07 PM
Four women and three men were killed in sporadic shootings in Baghdad
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World
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Region
5/12/2013 12:02:06 PM
A Saudi court sentences a Lebanese man for six years in prison and 300 lashes after convicting him of encouraging a Saudi Muslim woman to convert to Christianity
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World
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International
5/11/2013 10:21:06 AM
Conservatives in the tribal district of North Waziristan in Pakistan prevented women from heading to the polls, calling out warnings in loudspeakers and distributing pamphlets with similar threats
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Egypt
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Politics
5/10/2013 9:11:13 PM
To experience sexual harassment first hand, a 24-year-old actor dressed like a woman; he was taken for a prostitute
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World
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Region
5/10/2013 10:04:15 AM
Jerusalem police on Friday were holding five ultra-Orthodox Jewish men who tried to disrupt landmark prayers by female Jewish activists at the Western Wall plaza in the Holy City
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Opinion
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5/11/2013 7:17:55 PM
A revolutionary thinker and writer who raised the standard of public debate on democracy, social justice and the empowerment of women, Samer Soliman's loss is deeply felt in Egypt's present crisis
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Egypt
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Politics
5/4/2013 2:30:00 PM
Aisha Rateb, the first woman to ever serve in senior government positions in Egypt, dies at age 85 in Cairo
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