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For first time, Saudi women step into hajj emergency role
Mecca – Seven women sit in front of computer screens fielding distress calls from across Mecca ahead of the annual haj pilgrimage this week, in a first for Saudi Arabia as it tries to expand...
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Many leaders clueless on issues facing girls, women, survey shows
New York – Policymakers in developing nations may not know enough facts and figures about problems facing women and girls to help reach gender equality, research showed on Wednesday. Only a handful of...
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Saudi authorities pursue Twitter user over women’s driving threat
Riyadh – Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor issued an arrest warrant on Saturday for a Twitter user who called for anyone who supports women driving to be killed, days after a royal decree ended a...
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London ranked best megacity for women, Cairo worst
London – Cairo is the world’s most dangerous megacity for women, while London is the best, according to the first international experts’ poll on how females fare in the rising number of cities with...
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US women’s football star Solo accuses Blatter of sexual assault
Lisbon – US women’s football star Hope Solo accused Sepp Blatter of sexual assault on Friday, claiming the disgraced former FIFA president groped her backside at the 2013 Ballon d’Or ceremony. The...
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Australian gets jail, caning for molesting two women in Singapore
Singapore – In just over an hour, the managing director of a horse-racing company molested two women at different bars along Boat Quay. Wade James Burridge was yesterday sentenced to 11 months’ jail...
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Saudi women will also be allowed to drive motorcycles
Riyadh – Saudi Arabian women will be able to drive trucks and motorcycles, officials have said three months after the kingdom announced a historic decision to end a ban on women driving. In September,...
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Women who work nights face higher cancer risk – Study
Women who regularly work the night shift in Europe and North America may face a 19% higher risk of cancer than those who work during the day, said a study Monday. These heightened risks were not...
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Saudi women football fans able to grandstand at last
For years Areej al-Ghamdi could only cheer her favourite football team from home, but everything changed on Friday when Saudi Arabia allowed women into the stadium for the first time. The university...
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Women’s rights protestors slam harassment, violence and Trump
Women’s rights protesters took to the streets in European cities yesterday to voice their frustration at sexual harassment, violence and discrimination against women. Hundreds of people gathered in...
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Gaza police block women from attending football match
Gaza – Police blocked dozens of women from attending a football match Sunday in the Gaza Strip, in what activists said they hoped would have been the first such permission under Hamas’s rule....
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Iran arrests 29 women as headscarf protests intensify
Tehran – Tehran police have arrested 29 women for appearing in public without a headscarf as protests against the dress code in force since the Islamic revolution of 1979 intensify, Iranian media...
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Brazilian women say ‘No Means No’ at carnival
Rio De Janeiro – “No means no” is a new battle cry for Brazilian women mobilising against assault at carnival, a raucous party whose free-wheeling atmosphere leaves women particularly vulnerable to...
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Male Indian village leaders ban women from using mobile phones
Women of Sahariya tribe of 27 villages in Sheopur district have been banned from using mobile phones by their tribal panchayat as is was “spoiling” the women. The panchayat (village council) was held...
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5 women killed in Dagestan church shooting claimed by IS
Dagestan – Five women were shot dead in an apparent radical Islamist attack on an Orthodox church in the North Caucasus region of Dagestan yesterday, as the Islamic State group claimed responsibility...
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French grandfather admits raping 40 women
A French grandfather was charged yesterday after confessing to raping and sexually assaulting “around forty” women in a series of attacks since the 1990s. The married 57-year-old father was arrested...
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Driving not be all of Saudi women’s rights – Princess Reema
Washington – Saudi Arabia is working to address deeper issues on the path to women’s rights after allowing them to drive and attend soccer matches, one of the kingdom’s top female officials said...
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New York to pay Muslim women forced to remove hijabs
Geneva – The city of New York yesterday agreed to pay US$180,000 (RM706,140) to three Muslim women forced by police to remove their headscarves to have mugshots taken, officials said. Each of the...
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Government committed to empowering women – Najib
Kuala Lumpur – The government is committed to empowering women to build their families and careers successfully, said Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. The Prime Minister said women were among the major...
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Nigeria: 149 women and children rescued from Boko Haram
The Nigerian military says it has rescued 149 women and children abducted by the armed group Boko Haram in the country’s northeast. Onyema Nwachuku, army spokesman, said on Sunday the freed captives...
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