Women Lose Ground in the New Iraq
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BAGHDAD -- Browsing the shelves of a cosmetics store in the Karrada  shopping district, Zahra Khalid felt giddy at the sight of Alberto shampoo and Miss Rose eye shadow, blusher and powder.
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For many Iraqis, the June 28 handover of political power by the U.S.-led occupation authority was nothing more than a date on the calendar, a moment to mark and then forget, lost in a brutal insurgency that has shown little mercy ever since.
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Women can be elected to parliament, but six years after the fall of the Taliban less than 30% of girls are enrolled in schools. Their absence could be Afghanistan's next crisis
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Iraq's fragmented leadership is struggling to meet the major benchmarks that it has pledged to the United States to achieve soon, with political wrangling and a chaotic legislature standing in the way.
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The debate in Washington over troop numbers is intense. But in Baghdad, there's been little sense of alarm or urgency among the Iraqi politicians who would have the most to lose if the United States decides to begin a major pull back.
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Italy's politicians united in lamenting the lot of the nation's women on Thursday but some also said women could do more to defend their rights.Comment
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NAJAF, Iraq -- The women took advantage of the national holiday declared for today's election to promenade through the center of this holy Shi'ite city. Shop owners lolled about on carpets by the shrine of Imam Ali, flicking worry beads, bouncing children on their knees, and gossiping with friends.
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Iraqâs second-largest city is now without foreign forces for the first time since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
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Kerry campaign officials have been nervously eyeing polls that show an erosion of the senator's support among women.
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The hostage crisis in Iraq has worsened with gunmen kidnapping two Italian women aid workers and two Iraqis from their offices in Baghdad.
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Today's female veterans are poised to challenge perceptions over how women serve in the military.
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BAGHDAD -- Umm Hussein stands near the rubble and wearily waves off the perky woman thrusting a microphone in her face. She is tired of telling reporters how American troops blew up her house.
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WASHINGTON -- The Army for the first time is placing women in support units at the front lines of combat because of a shortage of skilled male soldiers available for duty in Iraq and is considering a repeal of the decade-old rule that prohibits women from being deployed alongside combat forces, according to Pentagon officials and military documents.
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 21 -- Two attacks on vehicles carrying Iraqi women to their jobs Thursday morning claimed the lives of six women and one man and severely wounded more than a dozen people, witnesses and government officials said.
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As the world marked international women's day on Thursday, some women in the small war-battered west African nation of Sierra Leone barely knew about it.
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In a tradition-bound nation, women are emerging as an economic and political force unheard of in the rest of the Arab world.
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Women faced pressure not to run as candidates in the Palestinian local elections. But they did &#151; and they won, with more than half of them defeating their male opponents in this conservative, traditional Arabic society.