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World
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5/25/2023 5:23:29 PM
One cold winter night, Syrian Ibrahim Othman went out to pray and came home cradling a baby girl, abandoned at the doorstep of the village mosque just hours after she was born.
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Egypt
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Society
5/20/2023 2:16:04 PM
Four people were killed, including a six-year-old girl, and 11 others were injured as a building collapsed in Al-Taramsa village of Upper Egypt’s Qena governorate.
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World
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International
5/1/2023 3:17:30 PM
Afghanistan's Taliban authorities will be absent from UN-led talks that open Monday on how to handle the crisis-stricken country's rulers and press them to ease a ban on women working and girls going to school.
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Opinion
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5/1/2023 12:27:51 PM
Gender equality and fair treatment of women and girls is a moral imperative, but global data analytics, evidence and experience clearly demonstrate that including women also fosters economic growth and stability, especially in times of fiscal challenges.
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World
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International
4/27/2023 11:36:01 AM
Some 90 percent of young women and teenage girls in the world's poorest countries have no access to the internet, a United Nations report published Wednesday said.
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World
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Region
4/17/2023 4:15:29 PM
Afghan authorities are closing education centers and institutes supported by non-governmental groups in the south until further notice, officials said Monday. The centers are mostly for girls, who are banned from going to school beyond sixth grade.
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World
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Region
4/17/2023 1:15:49 PM
Around 5,000 Palestinian prisoners are currently held captive in Israel, including 31 women and 160 minors, one of whom is a girl, according to Palestinian prisoners' advocacy groups, marking the Palestinian Prisoner’s Day on Monday
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World
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International
3/25/2023 4:39:31 PM
The Taliban government is trying to take charge of more Afghan embassies abroad, a spokesman said Saturday, amid their continued international isolation because of restrictions on women and girls.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
3/19/2023 6:17:10 PM
A criminal court in Egypt’s Assiut governorate sentenced a young male to seven years in prison on Sunday for blackmailing 12 girls, demanding illicit relationships with them and threatening them through social media with defamation after fabricating sexually explicit photos.
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World
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Region
3/6/2023 5:07:18 PM
Iran's supreme leader said Monday that if a series of suspected poisonings at girls' schools are proven to be deliberate the culprits should be sentenced to death for committing an “unforgivable crime.”
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World
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Region
3/1/2023 7:52:31 PM
Iran's president stepped in after more than 100 students were hospitalised Wednesday, the latest in a spate of poisonings at girls' schools that has gripped the country.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
2/26/2023 11:02:39 AM
The Berlin film festival on Saturday awarded its Golden Bear top prize to a documentary by French director Nicolas Philibert and its best acting award to an eight-year-old girl in what jury chief Kristen Stewart described as a "boundary-pushing" event.
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World
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Region
2/24/2023 6:05:52 PM
A nine-year-old Syrian girl whose fate captured the tragedy, hope, and heartbreak of this month's earthquake after spending 40 hours under the rubble was taken to Turkey Thursday for treatment.
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World
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Region
2/20/2023 9:38:24 PM
A baby girl who was born under the rubble of her family’s earthquake-shattered home has left the hospital and gone to her new home, where she was with her paternal aunt’s family Monday.
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Life & Style
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Health
2/13/2023 9:55:40 PM
US health authorities sounded the alarm Monday about a mental health crisis among American high school students, particularly teenage girls suffering from sadness, violence and trauma.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
1/31/2023 9:48:49 PM
Combating all forms of violence against women was the focus of discussions during the Third Forum for the Arab Girl, reports Reem Leila
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World
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International
1/9/2023 8:48:10 PM
The Vatican said Monday it has reopened the investigation into the 1983 disappearance of the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee, months after a new Netflix documentary purported to shed new light on the case and weeks after her family asked the Italian Parliament to take up the cause.
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World
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Region
12/31/2022 5:40:33 PM
Police in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region said on Saturday they had arrested 16 young men after a viral video showed a teenage girl being attacked at a motorcycle rally.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
12/23/2022 6:45:03 PM
Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed El-Tayyeb has called for the Taliban to reconsider their decision to ban Afghan women from accessing university education, saying the decision contradicts Sharia (Islamic law).
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World
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International
12/22/2022 6:26:38 PM
The Taliban's treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan may amount to "a crime against humanity", G7 foreign ministers said Thursday, demanding the ban on women attending university be reversed.
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