Activists planned rallies and marches to celebrate International Women's Day while governments in several countries promised action to help improve the lot of half the world's population reut.rs/3SVlHS2 1/6
🇨🇦 Canada repealed historic indecency and anti-abortion laws.
🇮🇪 Ireland announced a referendum in November to remove outmoded references to women in the constitution.
🪧 Marches and events were planned in cities including Paris, Beirut, Baghdad, Istanbul and Singapore 2/6
🇮🇹 Giorgia Meloni, Italy's first woman prime minister, focused on the role of women in the economy saying state-controlled companies should have at least one female leader 3/6
🇯🇵 In Japan, which ranked 116 out of 146 countries on gender parity in a WEF global report last year, chief cabinet secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told a news conference that progress had been made on improving working conditions for women but more had to be done 4/6
🇷🇺 In Russia, where #IWD is one of the most celebrated public holidays, the head of its upper house of parliament used the occasion to launch a vehement attack on sexual minorities and liberal values promoted by the West 5/6
#IWD comes from the U.S. movements of the early 20th century when women were fighting for better working conditions and the right to vote.
Over a century later, women celebrate their achievements and draw attention to efforts to further improve rights reut.rs/3SVlHS2 6/6
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Threats. Surveillance. Doxxing. Swatting. Here's why some Sikhs in the US and Canada fear Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is trying to silence them ⬇️ 1/6reut.rs/4fFgF78
California's first Sikh American assemblywoman Jasmeet Bains says someone took photos of her home, broke into her mailbox 2/6
Bains is pushing for legislation to give law enforcement training and tools to address harassment by foreign governments 3/6
Kamala Harris is preparing for the fight of her life, if her inner circle is anything to go by 1/9 reut.rs/3LQ8kjh
The vice president has surrounded herself with a group of tested operators, many of them Black women who have been involved in Democratic politics for decades, as she gears up for a brutal three months of campaigning before the November 5 election 2/9
US Senator Laphonza Butler of California, for one, struck a bullish tone this week when asked on MSNBC about the prospect of Harris facing a barrage of sexist and racist attacks. 'Bring it,' she said. 'Because we are not new to this' 3/9
French paramedic Seifelislam Benadda had just dropped off a patient at hospital on July 1, he said, when police informed him he was prohibited from leaving his hometown in the Paris suburbs, saying he was a potential threat to the Olympic Games 1/8 reut.rs/3WhFJrY
For the next nine days, instead of driving his ambulance, the 28-year-old checked in at the Nogent-sur-Marne police station at midday and fought to overturn the administrative measure, which alleged he posed a terrorist risk 2/8
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Four decades ago, the United States deployed cruise and Pershing II nuclear missiles in Europe to counter Soviet SS-20s - a move that stoked Cold War tensions but led within years to a historic disarmament deal 1/10 reut.rs/3W97ZNj
'We can be proud of planting this sapling, which may one day grow into a mighty tree of peace,' Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev told US President Ronald Reagan in December 1987 as they agreed to dismantle the rival systems under a new treaty 2/10
The treaty scrapped all ground-based shorter-range and intermediate-range (INF) nuclear and conventional weapons - those with ranges between 500 km and 5,500 km 3/10
Israel intensified its bombardment of Rafah in Gaza's south and over a dozen members of one family were killed in an air strike, residents said, as the ruined Palestinian enclave's health ministry announced 29,313 deaths in the war so far 1/6 reut.rs/3wrVZgR
In Jerusalem, Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz cited 'promising early signs of progress' on a new deal to release hostages held by Hamas militants in Gaza amid talks conducted by the United States, Egypt and Qatar to secure a pause in the war 2/6
The Israeli army said it had stepped up operations in Khan Younis, a city just north of Rafah. It made no mention of attacks on Rafah itself in its daily summary of events in Gaza and did not immediately respond to a request for comment 3/6
View of Buckingham Palace following King Charles' cancer diagnosis reut.rs/486lbGw
King Charles has been diagnosed with a form of cancer and will postpone public engagements to undergo treatment, Buckingham Palace said, but added he remained ‘wholly positive’ about the scare less than 18 months into his reign