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IRAN TO GET NATURAL URANIUM BATCH IN SWAP WITH RUSSIA, DIPLOMATS SAY
Like enriched uranium, plutonium can be turned into the fissile core of a nuclear weapon... READ MORE›
EUROPE SCRAMBLES TO HELP HOMELESS MIGRANTS AS DEEP FREEZE GRIPS CONTINENT
BELGRADE, SERBIA--Blizzards and dangerously low temperatures persisted in parts of Europe on Sunday, prompting Pope Francis to draw attention to the homeless suffering in freezing weather... READ MORE›
FUEL TRUCK BLAST KILLS DOZENS IN NORTH SYRIAN BORDER TOWN
Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency cited a doctor in Azaz as saying at least 60 people had been killed and more than 50 wounded... READ MORE›
BLAST KILLS DOZENS IN REBEL-HELD SYRIAN TOWN
Turkey's privately owned Dogan news agency said a car bomb planted by Islamic State was responsible... READ MORE›
ZAMBIA WOMEN'S 'DAY OFF FOR PERIODS' SPARKS DEBATE
A law that gives women in Zambia the right to take a day off work if they're on their period is finally being discussed openly... READ MORE›
INDIAN OFFICIAL BLAMES WOMENA??S WESTERN DRESS FOR MASS MOLESTATION
The Bangalore Mirror published photos of women clinging to female police officers and being rushed away by men... READ MORE›
INDIAN POLICE PROBE REPORT OF MASS SEXUAL ASSAULT
The mass sex attacks shocked Germany, which has admittedA nearly a million asylum seekers from the Middle East and North Africa... READ MORE›
LSLAMIC STATE GROUP CLAIMS ISTANBUL NEW YEAR'S NIGHT CLUB ATTACK
Most of the victims were visitors from the Middle East, celebrating the New Year in the ritzy night club... READ MORE›
ISTANBUL: VICTIMS OF REINA NIGHTCLUB ATTACK IDENTIFIED
Foreigners including many nationals of Arab countries were among the dead in the New Year's Eve shooting rampage at an Istanbul nightclub, officials said... READ MORE›
CHICKEN POT KILLER YVONNE CAYLOR BLAMED 'DUDE' FOR MURDER
Her family have paid tribute to her, describing her as a beautiful young woman with a beautiful soul ... READ MORE›
SKOREA SHUTS WEBSITE MAPPING WOMEN OF CHILDBEARING AGE
Some said the government treated the birth rate issue as concerning only women, pointing out that no picture of men was used on the website... READ MORE›
S. KOREA SHUTS SITE THAT SHOWS WOMEN OF CHILDBEARING AGE
Some said the government treated the birth rate issue as concerning only women, pointing out that no picture of men was used on the website... READ MORE›
ROMANIA WAS ABOUT TO APPOINT ITS FIRST MUSLIM PRIME MINISTER. THEN THE PRESIDENT INTERVENED
Romania's president has rejected the nomination of the country's first ever Muslim candidate for prime minister... READ MORE›
ANGER IN ROMANIA AS PRESIDENT BLOCKS FEMALE MUSLIM AS PM NOMINEE
Romania was tipped to have its first female and first Muslim prime minister, until the country's president on Tuesday rejected the Social Democrat Party's nomination... READ MORE›
JIHADIST WHO SENT HIS 8YO DAUGHTER ON SUICIDE MISSION IN SYRIA IS DEAD - REPORTS
Less than two weeks ago, a blast hit a police station in the Syrian capital, Damascus... READ MORE›
2 SUSPECTED MILITANTS DETONATE SUICIDE BOMBS DURING A POLICE RAID IN BANGLADESH
In July, militants attacked a bakery in Dhaka and 22 people were killed... READ MORE›
2016 ELECTION RESULT HAS SPARKED AN INTEREST IN RUNNING FOR OFFICE AMONG WOMEN
Hillary Clinton's loss has a silver lining for women in politics... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS BLASTS VATICAN RESISTANCE TO REFORM IN HIS ANNUAL CHRISTMAS SPEECH
For the third year in a row, Francis took the Vatican bureaucracy to task in his annual Christmas greeting... READ MORE›
ROMANIA MAY SOON NAME A LITTLE-KNOWN WOMAN AS THE E.U.'S FIRST MUSLIM PRIME MINISTER
Because of the nation's Muslim roots, Shhaideh's faith has raised less attention in Romania than it might have in other eastern European countries... READ MORE›
HOW THE RIVALRY BETWEEN RUSSIANS AND TURKS SHAPED THE WORLD
A gunman shot Andrey Karlov, Russia's ambassador to Turkey, at a photo exhibition in Ankara on Monday... READ MORE›
SYRIA REMAINS THE WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS COUNTRY FOR JOURNALISTS
In Afghanistan, all of the 10 journalists killed were deliberately targeted because of their profession... READ MORE›
YEMEN'S WAR WOUNDED FIND COMFORT IN 'BROTHERLY' OMAN
Muscat, Oman - Zainul Abideen was nearly killed by an air strike in Yemen's Saada province earlier this year... READ MORE›
HOW WILL MOSUL AND ALEPPO SURVIVE TODAY'S WARS? THEIR SHARED ANCIENT HISTORY OFFERS SOME CLUES
Omar Sanadiki Reuters Just 300 miles separate Mosul, Iraq, and Aleppo, Syria, two cities very much in the news in recent months... READ MORE›
WONDER WOMAN DROPPED AS UN EQUALITY CHAMPION
The UN drops comic book heroine Wonder Woman as an ambassador, two months after a contentious appointment... READ MORE›
ONE LESS WOMAN IN POLITICS: WONDER WOMAN LOSES JOB AS UN AMBASSADOR
Wonder Woman, a DC Comics heroine, first appeared in 1941, fighting villains, rescuing victims and unearthing evil plots... READ MORE›
WONDER WOMAN AXED AS UN AMBASSADOR AFTER PROTESTS
Wonder Woman's battle for equality for women and girls at the United Nations has come to a untimely end... READ MORE›
WONDER WOMAN'S STINT AS UN AMBASSADOR ENDS UNEXPECTEDLY AMID OUTCRY
A full-length Wonder Woman movie, unaffiliated with the UN campaign, starring Israeli actress Gal Gadot is scheduled for release by Warner Bros... READ MORE›
WHY EXTREMISTS DESTROY ANCIENT TREASURES
Syrian troops captured Palmyra from Islamic State fighters on Sunday after three weeks of intense fighting... READ MORE›
FOR WOMEN UNDER ISIS A TYRANNY OF DRESS CODE AND PUNISHMENT
The dress code imposed on the women of Mosul started soon after the Islamic State overran the city more than two years ago... READ MORE›
'I VOTED FOR A SAFE CHOICE'
The Romanian centre-left party the Social Democrats PSD have won the country's parliamentary elections following the departure of its last socialist prime minister due to corruption... READ MORE›
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MOROCCAN STATE TV SHOWS WOMEN HOW TO HIDE SIGNS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Women in Morocco have reacted in horror after a programme on state television demonstrated how they could use makeup to cover up evidence of domestic violence... READ MORE›
'I RESPECT WOMEN MORE THAN I RESPECT MEN'
New York Times report Two women accuse Donald Trump of inappropriate touching... READ MORE›
LOCALS FORM 'HUMAN SHIELD' TO PROTECT HOTEL FROM GUNMAN SEIFEDDINE REZGUI
Tunisia hotel attack Locals form 'human shield' to protect hotel from gunman Seifeddine Rezgui... READ MORE›
TRUMP TALK GETS MEGYN KELLY BOOED IN HOLLYWOOD
The annual Hollywood Reporter Women in Entertainment breakfast was a love-fest. Until Donald Trump's name came up, that is... READ MORE›
OPINION: THE TERRIFYING ISSUE FOR WOMEN IN ELECTION 2016
Donald trump's crude talk on the howard stern show... READ MORE›
THE OUTLAW OCEAN MURDER AT SEA CAPTURED ON VIDEO BUT KILLERS GO FREE
They speculated that one gunman, quite likely a private security guard, did all the shooting, using a semiautomatic weapon... READ MORE›
WORLD LEADERS BID FAREWELL TO FIDEL CASTRO
People attend a memorial service for Cuba's late President Fidel Castro in Revolution Square in Havana... READ MORE›
ALMOST 47 YEARS AFTER GIRL'S ABDUCTION, A BIG BREAK
Cheryl Grimmer's family had recently moved to Australia when police believe the 3-year-old was abducted from changing rooms at Fairy Meadow Beach in Wollongong on Jan. 12, 1970... READ MORE›
VATICAN FIRES GAY PRIEST ON EVE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS MEETING
Charamsa can no longer work at the Vatican or its pontifical universities, Lombardi said... READ MORE›
CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR: HOW AMERICA FAILED TO KILL FIDEL CASTRO
When Castro travelled abroad, the CIA cooperated with Cuban exiles for some of the more serious assassination attempts... READ MORE›
FOUR MAPS THAT EXPLAIN THE CHAOS OF THE MIDDLE EAST
Why Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya are in so much turmoil... READ MORE›
CUBANS LINE STREETS AS FIDEL CASTRO'S ASHES BEGIN JOURNEY ACROSS ISLAND
Fidel Castro's ashes began a four-day journey across the island Wednesday... READ MORE›
GUARDIAN.CO.UK EGYPTIAN COURT SENTENCES 183 MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SUPPORTERS TO DEATH 1 HR AGO
Sabbagh -- crumpled on the pavement, alongside flowers, as the police charged in and protesters fled -- stunned Egyptians... READ MORE›
THE HISTORY OF MOSUL, IN FIVE MAPS
For a thousand years, Mosul has been at the heart of battles that shaped the Middle East... READ MORE›
STARS WEIGH IN ON TRUMP TAPE ABOUT GROPING WOMEN
Trump graphically describes attempts to sleep with a married woman, telling Bush, then an Access Hollywood host, I did try and f-... READ MORE›
WOMAN SAYS TRUMP GROPED HER AT 1998 U.S. OPEN
Other accusers also have said that they went public in response to Trump saying he never inappropriately touched women... READ MORE›
CONCERN FOR MISSING BOXING PROMOTER
The simplicity of the debate, the fact that it was about something as universal as the color of a dress, made it all the more irresistible... READ MORE›
FIRST FOOTAGE OF PARIS TERROR ATTACKS INSIDE CAFE
And what of Jasmine and Lucille trapped behind the bar?... READ MORE›
ARE YOU TAKING PART IN THE ARGENTINA PROTEST OVER VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN?
Organisers have called on women in Argentina to take part in a national strike to protest over violence against women... READ MORE›
'LOOK LIKE A GIRL A?? THINK LIKE A MAN'
Bic South Africa posted the ad on its Facebook page to celebrate national women's day... READ MORE›
TURKEY ENTERS SYRIA TO REMOVE PRECIOUS SULEYMAN SHAH TOMB
Suleyman Shah, who lived from about 1178 to 1236, was grandfather of the founder of the Ottoman empire, Osman I... READ MORE›
4 FRIENDS STOP A SEXUAL ASSAULT, CHASE DOWN AND DETAIN THE ATTACKER UNTIL POLICE ARRIVED
EMS staff said the driver of that car had suffered a massive heart attack and would have died, if not for Eddy... READ MORE›
NEUROPOLITICS WHERE CAMPAIGNS TRY TO READ YOUR MIND
One neuromarketing firm says it has worked for a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign committee to help it improve its targeting and messages... READ MORE›
IN INDIA A SMALL BAND OF WOMEN RISK IT ALL FOR A CHANCE TO WORK
In this way, Geeta had carved out a role for herself as the bossiest woman in the village... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS: THE WORLD IS NEAR 'SUICIDE' ON CLIMATE CHANGE; 'IT'S NOW OR NEVER'
Environmental negotiators meeting in Paris should strike a climate change deal to save a world at the limits of suicide, Pope Francis said on Monday... READ MORE›
#TRUDEAUEULOGIES: JUSTIN TRUDEAU'S WARM TRIBUTE TO FIDEL CASTRO MOCKED ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Elsewhere, French President Francois Hollande said Castro incarnated the Cuban revolution in its hopes and its disillusionments ... READ MORE›
CATHOLIC CHURCH APOLOGISES FOR ROLE IN 'FORCED ADOPTIONS' OVER 30-YEAR PERIOD
Adoption reached a peak in 1968, when more than 16,000 babies born to unmarried mothers were handed over to new families... READ MORE›
WHY YOU SHOULD GIVE YOUR SONS MORE CHORES THAN YOUR DAUGHTERS
A study by UNICEF shows that girls across the world do 50 percent more chores than boys... READ MORE›
US LAUNCHES STRIKES AGAINST HOUTHI RADAR SITES IN YEMEN
Thursday's strikes, authorised by President Barack Obama, represent Washington's first direct military action against Houthi-controlled targets in Yemen's conflict... READ MORE›
'I'M TERRIFIED': CREEP CATCHER VIGILANTES ACCUSED OF THREATENING WOMEN WHO QUESTION GROUP'S TACTICS
'I know where you live' The former Red Deer Creep Catcher is not the only woman who has faced backlash from the group for speaking out... READ MORE›
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SOUTH KOREA PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE NAMES NEW PRIME MINISTER, FINANCE MINISTER
The Blue House said it named Yim Jong-yong, the Financial Services Commission chairman, as the new finance minister and deputy prime minister... READ MORE›
CHURCH SHOULD SAY SORRY OVER GAYS
Pope Francis says that Christians and the Roman Catholic Church should seek forgiveness from homosexuals for the way they have treated them... READ MORE›
BISHOPS FOUND 'NEGLIGENT' IN ABUSE CASES CAN BE DISMISSED, POPE SAYS
Pope approves measures to remove bishops found 'negligent' in abuse cases... READ MORE›
BISHOPS WHO FAIL TO REPORT ABUSE COULD BE REMOVED
Pope Francis says bishops who fail to report cases of sexual abuse of children and vulnerable adults could be removed from office... READ MORE›
POPE URGES SEVERE PUNISHMENT FOR PEDOPHILES AS DETAILS OF 2014 SLAYING OF GIRL 6 SHOCK ITALY
Pope Francis called for severe punishment for pedophiles on Sunday after new details emerged in Italy of the 2014 death of a 6-year-old girl who is alleg... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS SCOLDS PERSON WHO PULLED HIM DOWN IN MEXICO
Hide Caption 12 of 27 27 photos Pope Francis visits Mexico Pope Francis meets with bishops during his visit to the national cathedral in Mexico City on February 13... READ MORE›
A MORE CONSERVATIVE CATHOLIC CHURCH AWAITS POPE FRANCIS IN AFRICA
The church in Africa is booming in numbers, strength and influence, and the Roman Catholic Church globally is sitting up and taking notice... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS TRIES ON SOME NEW WOOLLY HEADWEAR DURING A VISIT TO A SOUP KITCHEN
Video Pope Francis tries on some new woolly headwear during a visit to a soup kitchen... READ MORE›
VOICE IS SOUGHT AT THE VATICAN ON REMARRIAGE
Homosexuality is regarded by the church as intrinsically disordered, a view that has left gay Catholics often sidelined, and gay couples feeling unacknowledged... READ MORE›
MARRIAGE IS FOREVER, POPE SAYS, AS CATHOLIC BISHOPS BEGIN HISTORIC TALKS ON CHANGE
A first meeting of bishops ended last October with no consensus on how to better welcome gays and divorced and civilly remarried Catholics in the church... READ MORE›
POPE INSISTS 'MARRIAGE IS BOND FOR MAN AND WOMAN'
The Church must search out these persons, welcome and accompany them, Pope Francis added... READ MORE›
'GOD WEEPS,' POPE SAYS, AFTER MEETING CLERGY SEX ABUSE VICTIMS
'God weeps,' pope says, after meeting clergy sex abuse victims... READ MORE›