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11/13/2022 11:01:05 PM
Slovenians on Sunday elected a lawyer linked to former US first lady Melania Trump as the country's first woman president, according to partial results with more than half the votes counted.
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World Cup 2022
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Features
11/8/2022 1:05:08 PM
Japanese referee Yoshimi Yamashita knows that being one of three women picked to officiate matches at the World Cup — the first time a woman will be in charge on the game's biggest stage — is not simply about soccer.
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World
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International
11/4/2022 5:47:31 PM
Foreign ministers from the G7 group of nations on Friday condemned Tehran's response to a wave of protests in Iran sparked by the death of young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini.
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Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
10/31/2022 7:41:33 PM
A young woman tried to throw soup at a painting at the world-famous Musee d'Orsay in Paris this week, the museum confirmed Sunday, in a similar attack to others by climate activists in Europe.
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World
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International
10/24/2022 7:56:15 PM
A gunman broke into a St. Louis high school Monday morning, fatally shooting a woman and a teenage girl and injuring six others before police killed him in an exchange of gunfire.
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World
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International
10/22/2022 2:21:20 PM
Giorgia Meloni, whose political party with neo-fascist roots emerged victorious in recent elections, was sworn in on Saturday as Italy's first far-right premier since the end of World War II. She is also the first woman to be premier.
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World
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International
10/21/2022 7:11:06 PM
Giorgia Meloni on Friday formed Italy's new ruling coalition, giving the country its first far-right-led government since the end of World War II and becoming the first woman tapped to serve as the country's premier.
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World
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International
10/21/2022 2:54:29 PM
Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni was set to be named Italian prime minister on Friday after her party's historic election win, becoming the first woman to head a government in Italy.
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World
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Region
10/18/2022 2:45:33 PM
An online post on the account of an Iranian female competitive climber offered an apology Tuesday after she appeared without a headscarf, or hijab, at an event in South Korea.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
10/15/2022 4:30:06 PM
An Indian movie about an impoverished woman involved in a pyramid scheme has won the key prize at this year's Busan International Film Festival, organisers announced Friday.
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World
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Region
10/13/2022 12:11:55 PM
Iran's president accused the U.S. on Thursday of conducting a ``failed policy of destabilization`` targeting his nation after Iranians in cities nationwide protested the death of a 22-year-old woman in the custody of the country's morality police.
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World
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Region
10/12/2022 2:52:34 PM
Iran suffered a "major disruption'' in internet service Wednesday as calls for renewed protests again saw demonstrators on the streets weeks after the death of a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by the country's morality police, an advocacy group said.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Cinema
10/11/2022 7:19:50 PM
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World
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Region
10/11/2022 4:27:32 PM
Iran intensified its crackdown Tuesday on Kurdish areas in the country's west amid protests sparked by the death of a 22-year-old woman detained by the morality police, activists said.
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World
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Region
10/10/2022 10:07:50 PM
Workers at refineries crucial for Iran's oil and natural gas production protested Monday over the death of a 22-year-old woman, online videos appeared to show, escalating the crisis faced by Tehran.
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World
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Region
10/10/2022 11:49:59 AM
The sound of apparent gunshots and explosions echoed early Monday through the streets of a western Iranian city at the epicentre of protests over the death of a 22-year-old woman, with at least one man reportedly killed by security forces in a village nearby, activists said.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
10/8/2022 10:23:27 AM
Jody Miller, whose “Queen of the House” won the 1966 Grammy Award for best country performance by a woman, died Thursday at age 80.
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World
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Region
10/2/2022 6:22:28 PM
Iran's parliamentary speaker warned Sunday that protests over the death of a young woman in police custody could destabilize the country and urged security forces to deal harshly with those he claimed endanger public order.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/1/2022 2:45:17 PM
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi wished new Italian PM Giorgia Meloni “success in leading Italy toward prosperity and a bright future" in a message to congratulate the country's first-ever woman prime minister on her party's victory in the general elections last week.
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World
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Region
9/30/2022 12:26:01 PM
A protest movement in Iran over the death in custody of Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini entered its third week Friday, in defiance of an intensifying crackdown that rights activists say has cost at least 83 lives.
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