Paraguay nominates first woman candidate
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Paraguay's ruling party nominated a woman as its presidential candidate on Monday, a first for the South American nation, but the candidacy of Education Minister Blanca Ovelar still faces a court challenge.
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Segolene Royal has officially launched her campaign to become France's first woman president at a congress of her Socialist Party as her main rival on the ruling right, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, struggled to mount a challenge.
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Peru&#39;s 20-year-old Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia began her reign as Miss World 2004 on Sunday after beating 106 other women to the title in China&#39;s second staging of the international beauty pageant.
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NEW DELHI -- India chose its first female president yesterday in an election hailed as a victory for women in a country where gender discrimination is deep-rooted and widespread.
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A former education minister favored by the outgoing president held a narrow lead for the ruling party's presidential nomination in nearly complete results reported Monday. If she is elected, South America would have three female leaders.
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Argentines appeared certain to choose their first elected female president on Sunday, with first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner favored to win by a wide margin over her closest rival, another woman.
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India elected its first female president on Saturday, official results showed, in what supporters called a boost for the rights of millions of downtrodden women, despite a bitter campaign marked by scandal.
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ASUNCION, Paraguay  - They are a new breed of  public servants in Paraguay, plucked from the private sector by  a president who needs to crack down on the endemic corruption  that has emptied his state's coffers.
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Cuba's Episcopal Church is to consecrate the first female bishop in the developing world.
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BUENOS AIRES -- The senator wife of President Nestor Kirchner will run as the government candidate in Argentina's October presidential election after he decided not to seek re election, a government spokesman said yesterday . The decision ends months of speculation fueled by Kirchner's public suggestions that either he or his wife, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, would compete in the ...
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Harvard University on Sunday named historian Drew Gilpin Faust as its first female president, ending a lengthy and secretive search to find a successor to Lawrence Summers and his tumultuous five-year tenure.
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The wife of President Nestor Kirchner will run as the government candidate in Argentina's October presidential election after he decided not to seek re-election, a government spokesman said on Sunday.
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Cristina FernÃ¡ndez de Kirchner has become the first woman to be elected president in Argentinaâs history.
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In the first elections in 40 years, one woman jumps in. But can women even vote?
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Segolene Royal, a popular Socialist, launches her bid to become France's first woman president.
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Argentines voted for a new president on Sunday with first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner poised to succeed her husband and become the country's first elected woman leader.
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First lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will become Argentina's first elected woman leader, after easily winning a presidential vote largely centered on her husband's economic successes.