Florida, two other states defy trend and vote down abortion rights
Voters approved most of the referendums expanding the right to abortion in U.S. states on Tuesday, while Florida, Nebraska and South...
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Kemi Badenoch becomes first Black woman to head British Conservatives
LONDON - Kemi Badenoch became the Conservatives' new leader and the first Black woman to a head a major British political party on...
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Sheinbaum sworn in as Mexico's first female president, vows 'it's time for women'
MEXICO CITY - Claudia Sheinbaum was sworn in as Mexico's first woman president on Tuesday, vowing to bolster women's rights and ensure...
Oct 12 min read
FBI will pay $22.6 million to settle female trainees' sex bias claims
The U.S. Department of Justice has agreed to pay $22.6 million to settle a lawsuit by 34 women who claim they were wrongly dismissed from...
Sep 283 min read
Pope Francis, in Belgium, pressed on sexual abuse, women priests
BRUSSELS - Pope Francis was pressed firmly by Belgium's king and premier on Friday for more concrete action to address sexual abuse by...
Sep 282 min read
Australian court lifts controversial ban on women's only art gallery
SYDNEY - An Australian court on Friday lifted a ban on a women's only art exhibit at a gallery in the southern state of Tasmania, saying...
Sep 262 min read
Washington state's abortion pill stockpile is insurance against Trump win, governor says
OLYMPIA, Washington - Washington state's first-in-the-nation stockpile of abortion drugs will serve as insurance against future lawsuits...
Sep 213 min read
Harrods' ex-owner Al Fayed raped, assaulted staff over decades, lawyers say
LONDON - The late Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed sexually abused female staff at his London department store Harrods, forced them...
Sep 203 min read
Harvey Weinstein pleads not guilty to new sexual assault charge
NEW YORK - Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty to a new sexual assault charge on Wednesday, nearly five months after the disgraced...
Sep 193 min read
Frenchwoman in mass rape case denounces husband, other suspects as 'degenerates'
AVIGNON, France - Gisele Pelicot, who was drugged and raped by dozens of men recruited by her husband, on Wednesday called the men...
Sep 183 min read
Frenchman admits to mass rape of his wife, says acts were 'an addiction'
AVIGNON, France - Dominique Pelicot admitted to drugging his wife and recruiting dozens of strangers to rape her over nearly a decade,...
Sep 152 min read
French women rally to support Gisele Pelicot, woman at the centre of a mass rape trial
PARIS - Hundreds of people, mostly women, gathered in cities across France on Saturday in support of Gisele Pelicot whose husband is on...
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