‘She left her body’: A mother’s fight against her daughter’s anorexia
When her daughter developed anorexia nervosa, Rita Orza faced a solitary struggle to help her child survive and recover.
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‘Come home’: Iran to welcome women’s football team ‘with open arms’
Iran’s Foreign Ministry and general prosecutor say the team is invited to return home ‘with peace and confidence’.
Australia grants asylum to five Iranian women footballers
Australian PM says the Iranian team members ‘asked for assistance and had received it and were safely located’.
Fear, uncertainty surround Iran women’s football team’s return home
Players body and activists say the team must be protected while head coach insists the players are eager to return.
Marches for International Women’s Day denounce war, abuse and oppression
Marches on 115th anniversary of IWD place focus on issues like US-Israeli war on Iran and Trump’s links with Epstein.
In Modi’s India, scandal still embarrasses but rape has become ordinary
The government’s performed outrage over Gates’s Epstein links underlined its indifference to violence against women.
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‘I didn’t set out to break records’: Pakistan’s first female MMA fighter
Anita Karim retraces her journey into combat sports ahead of the country’s first ever professional women’s MMA fight.
What being a woman in Gaza means in this genocidal war
Mothers starving to feed children, surgeries without anaesthesia and loss of privacy define female experience in Gaza.
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US president’s chief of staff describes Trump as having ‘alcoholic’s personality’ and calls Elon Musk ‘odd, odd duck’.
Far-right candidate Kast takes early lead in Chile’s presidential election
Far-right opposition candidate Jose Antonio Kast takes an early lead over his centre-left rival, Jeannette Jara.
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Israeli troops used this Palestinian woman as a human shield
A Palestinian woman says Israeli soldiers used her as a human shield during a ground operation in Gaza.
Published On 10 Dec 2025