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World
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Region
6/7/2023 1:37:35 PM
Opposition lawmakers won a majority in Kuwait's parliament but with a notable lack of gender diversity, with only one woman elected out of the 50 seats, results showed on Wednesday, after the Gulf state's seventh general election in just over a decade.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/3/2023 6:16:29 PM
Concerns around civilian safety spiked in Ukraine on Saturday, as officials announced that an inspection had found nearly a quarter of the country’s air-raid shelters locked or unusable, just days after a woman in Kyiv allegedly died waiting outside a shuttered shelter during a Russian missile barrage.
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Egypt
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Politics
5/31/2023 10:49:18 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has ratified amendments to the Egyptian Nationality Law of 1975, allowing foreign minors born in Egypt to either a man or a woman born in the country or with an Egyptian origin to acquire citizenship.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Living
5/30/2023 7:45:38 PM
In a plan to start her own professional career and give a hand to her family financing her college study, one young woman has started selling desserts by bicycle.
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Sports
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Omni sports
5/30/2023 2:47:19 PM
Iga Swiatek begins her bid to become the first woman in 16 years to successfully defend the French Open title on Tuesday as Novak Djokovic remained defiant after controversially weighing in on the Kosovo crisis.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
5/29/2023 9:20:00 AM
A duo exhibition at the Downtown Access Gallery of paintings and drawings by Fatma Abodoma and Agnes Michalczyk reflect on women’s work, inviting the viewer to contemplate the inner world women occupy and the psychological suffering they go through.
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Sports
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Omni sports
5/26/2023 12:20:00 PM
Novak Djokovic will bid for a record-breaking 23rd Grand Slam title at a French Open without his old rival Rafael Nadal for the first time since 2004, while Iga Swiatek attempts to become the first woman to defend the title in 16 years.
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World
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International
5/15/2023 6:04:11 PM
The UN migration agency says Amy Pope of the United States has been elected as its next director general.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Nakba remembered
5/15/2023 2:45:28 PM
Salim Tamari tours Jaffa, the town of his birth, accompanied by a young Arab woman resident, negotiating a path between the place of his memories and the city that is her home
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World
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Region
5/4/2023 1:45:00 PM
Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian woman in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the Palestinian health ministry said, in what the Israeli army called a "stabbing attack".
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World
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Region
5/4/2023 11:22:48 AM
Israel said its security forces shot dead three Palestinians blamed for killing a British-Israeli woman and her two daughters last month, in a raid Thursday in the occupied West Bank.
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Sports
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Omni sports
5/1/2023 6:24:00 PM
Egypt's Mayar Sherif has become the first Egyptian woman to reach the quarter-finals of a WTA 1000 tennis tournament after beating Belgium's Elise Mertens in the Round of 16 at the Madrid Open on Monday.
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Multimedia
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In Pictures
4/30/2023 8:59:02 PM
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World
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War in Ukraine
4/29/2023 9:35:49 PM
A court in Russia convicted a woman from a Siberian city over social media posts condemning the war in Ukraine and punished her Friday with a steep fine even though both she and the prosecution asked for a prison sentence.
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World
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Region
4/10/2023 11:35:08 AM
It was a cold night 50 years ago when an Israeli commando team led by a man disguised as a woman infiltrated a posh Beirut neighborhood and shot and killed three top officials from the Palestine Liberation Organization in their apartments.
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World
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International
3/31/2023 1:19:41 PM
France's CGT trade union federation on Friday elected surprise candidate Sophie Binet as secretary general, making her the first woman to hold the post since the body's creation in 1895.
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Life & Style
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Health
3/22/2023 3:15:09 PM
On 5 March, Manal Rustom, a marathoner and mountaineer, completed the prestigious Tokyo Marathon, becoming the first Egyptian woman to have completed all six Abbott World Marathon Majors. The six marathons are held annually in Tokyo, New York, Boston, London, Chicago, and Berlin.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
3/21/2023 9:18:13 PM
Rania Khallaf sought out two woman artists to mark Women’s Day
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Books
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Reviews
3/16/2023 5:50:51 PM
In a dare-to-say-it-all memoir, Afaf Mahfouz, a professor of law, psychoanalyst and civil society activist, shares a life-long journey of soul searching.
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World
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Region
3/15/2023 8:38:07 PM
Iranian activist and journalist Sepideh Gholian walked free Wednesday after over four years behind bars, defiantly shouting slogans against supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and calling for the release of fellow political prisoners.
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