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World
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Region
1/16/2023 11:31:32 PM
Up to 12,000 people marched Monday to the EU Parliament in the eastern French city of Strasbourg in support of Iran’s anti-government protesters while the Eiffel Tower lit the night with the slogan “Woman. Life. Freedom,” which embodies the protest movement spilling beyond Iran.
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Egypt
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Health
1/7/2023 12:56:42 PM
A thirty-year-old Egyptian woman who had recently undergone a lung transplant from a living donor – the first operation of its kind in Egypt and the Middle East – at Ain Shams University Hospital has died, the university announced on Friday.
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World
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Region
1/7/2023 11:46:42 AM
Iran executed two men on Saturday for killing a paramilitary force member during unprecedented protests sparked by the death in custody of a young woman.
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World
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International
12/31/2022 8:00:03 PM
Pioneering television journalist Barbara Walters, who upended a male-dominated industry as the first woman to anchor an evening news show in the United States, died on Friday at the age of 93, her long-time employer ABC said.
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World
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Region
12/27/2022 10:03:46 AM
Tunisian authorities recovered the bodies of four people believed to be African migrants, including a pregnant woman, off the coast of Kerkennah Island in the Mediterranean, the regional prosecutor said Monday.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
12/26/2022 10:56:55 PM
Egypt’s Court of Cassation sentenced on Monday Haitham Kamel Abou Ali to three years in prison for manslaughter over the death of a woman in Hurghada while driving his vehicle under the influence of drugs in January 2021.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
12/18/2022 1:22:55 PM
Nigerian Afrobeats singer Asake on Saturday said he was "devastated" after police announced that a woman had died after being caught in a crush outside a London venue where he was performing.
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World
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Region
12/17/2022 3:45:18 PM
Iran has arrested the lawyer of two female journalists jailed after covering the death in custody of a young woman that sparked three months of protests, a newspaper said Saturday.
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Life & Style
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City Lights
12/4/2022 7:15:57 PM
The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation awarded the membership of the distinguished Planetary Health Pledge Club to outstanding Egyptian entrepreneur Rawya Mansour, CEO of Ramsco Egypt and Oasis Technologies Monaco, earlier this week.
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World Cup 2022
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News
11/30/2022 10:57:22 AM
French referee Stéphanie Frappart will become the first woman to take charge of a men’s World Cup game when she handles Germany vs. Costa Rica on Thursday in Qatar.
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Business
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Markets & Companies
11/29/2022 5:00:46 PM
The private sector plays a significant role in contributing to the empowerment of women in the Egyptian market as well as creating more job opportunities for them, Ahmed El-Fakhrany, the general manager and chief commercial officer at Fine Hygienic Holding (FHH) Egypt, told Ahram Online.
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World Cup 2022
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News
11/22/2022 8:31:17 PM
Stephanie Frappart of France made soccer history Tuesday as the the first woman to officiate a men's World Cup match when she took the field as the fourth official in the game between Mexico and Poland.
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World
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Region
11/14/2022 3:33:15 PM
Turkey on Monday accused a Syrian woman of planting a bomb that killed six people in Istanbul, blaming the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) of carrying out the attack.
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World
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Region
11/14/2022 11:55:51 AM
Israeli forces shot and killed a 19-year-old Palestinian woman during a raid in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said Monday.
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World
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Region
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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