Category: Breaking News
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Jharkhand, India: Woman Set On Fire Over Land Dispute
The woman, identified as Anisha Parveen, suffered severe 80 per cent burn injuries, after which she was rushed to Bokaro General Hospital for immediate medical attention. However, she kicked the bucket soon after.
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Deborah Dioguardi Receives the ACORD Women’s Insurance Advancement Award
Deborah Dioguardi, the national practice leader for Professional Lines at Jencap, has been awarded the Women’s Insurance Advancement Award by ACORD.
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London: Sexual Predator Preying on Muslim Women Prompts Police Manhunt
After many reported sexual attacks on Muslim women on public transportation, police are searching for a male suspect.
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Kidnappers Continue to Demand Money Despite Ransom Payment for Abducted Nigerian University Students
Despite receiving roughly N2.5 million from the victims’ families, the terrorists who kidnapped five female students from Federal University Dutsin-Ma in Katsina State, Northwest Nigeria, have refused to release them.
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Hamas releases hostage video of French-Israeli Mia Schem
Schem says she was injured and brought to Gaza, and she begs to be returned to her family while speaking into the camera. She is pale but is sitting up straight with her head held high.
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India: Supreme Court Rules Against Woman’s Plea to Abort 26-week Pregnancy
On Monday, the Supreme Court in India denied a woman’s request to terminate her 26-week pregnancy, ruling that there was no imminent danger to the mother’s life and no evidence of a foetal defect.
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American Poet and Nobel Prize Winner, Louise Glück, Dies At 80
In 2020, Louise Gluck became the first American poet to win the Nobel Prize in Literature since TS Eliot, over seventy years earlier.
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Man Charged Over Alleged Kidnap Plot of TV Host, Holly Willoughby
Essex Police stated Wednesday that they had detained 36-year-old Gavin Plumb “as part of an ongoing investigation.”
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Southall Black Sisters Demand Justice After Racial Assault By White Woman, Claims MET Officer Unperturbed
The executive director of a charity for Black women, Southall Black Sisters, says she was attacked on the Tube and racially slurred at as an off-duty Met Police officer watched.
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Iranian Women’s Protest Movement Shortlisted for Sakharov Prize
The selection was made “in recognition of their brave effort to stand up for women’s rights,” EU Parliament foreign affairs committee chair David McAllister stated on October 12.