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Ugandan Olympic athlete dies after being set on fire by her partner
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has died at a Kenyan hospital where she was being treated after 80% of her body was burned in an attack by her partner, a hospital official confirmed Thursday. She was 33. Owen Menach, a spokesperson at Moi Teaching...
Iraqi women fear rise in child marriages as lawmakers consider giving conservative clerics more say
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Shaimaa Saadoun is haunted by her memory of being forced into an abusive marriage to a 39-year-old man just after she turned 13. Her impoverished family near the southern Iraqi city of Basra hoped that the dowry of gold and money would help improve their...
UN will continue to engage the Taliban in Afghanistan despite new laws restricting women
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations will continue to engage all stakeholders in Afghanistan, including the Taliban, a U.N. spokesman said, even though Afghanistan’s rulers issued a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public and severed ties with the U.N. mission after it criticized them. ...
Women in Chad defy discrimination and violence to assert their rights to own and control land
BINMAR, Chad (AP) — When Milla Nemoudji, a 28-year-old from a village in southern Chad, divorced her husband following years of physical abuse, she found herself without means for survival. Though raised in a farming family, she struggled to get by in a community where access to land is...
Taliban reject UN concerns over laws banning women's voices and bare faces in public
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban on Monday rejected concerns and criticism raised by the United Nations over new vice and virtue laws that ban women in Afghanistan from baring their faces and speaking in public places. Roza Otunbayeva, who heads the U.N. mission in the country, UNAMA,...
Trump would veto legislation establishing a federal abortion ban, Vance says
NEW YORK (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance says Donald Trump would not support a national abortion ban if elected president and would veto such legislation if it landed on his desk. “I can absolutely commit that,” Vance said when asked on NBC's “Meet the...
Taliban vice and virtue laws provide 'distressing vision' for Afghanistan, warns UN envoy
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban’s new vice and virtue laws that include a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public provide a “distressing vision” for Afghanistan’s future, a top U.N. official warned Sunday. Roza Otunbayeva, who heads the U.N. mission in the country,...
US border agent accused of ordering women to show him their breasts
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — A U.S. border patrol agent in New York has been accused of ordering women to show him their breasts and claiming that it was part of his officials duties, authorities said. Border agent Shane Millan, 53, was arrested Thursday on charges that he deprived four...
Female delegates at the DNC are wearing white to honor women's suffrage on night of Harris' speech
CHICAGO (AP) — If you think you're seeing a lot of women wearing white during the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, you don't need to adjust your television set. There appeared to be a coordinated effort among female delegates and Democratic supporters...
A trainee doctor is raped and killed in India, sparking protests and an attack at a medical college
KOLKATA, India (AP) — A trainee doctor was raped and killed, sparking protests in several cities and an attack on a medical college campus as doctors and paramedics in several cities across India demand better and safer working conditions. Scores of people went on a rampage at a...
