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Rare accounts of life for women inside notorious Iranian prison

Interrogations, beatings, cramped quarters and the tight bonds women forge inside Tehran's Evin prison.

BBC News - 12h

What is the row about women's pensions?

Millions of women born in the 1950s will not be compensated over state pension age increases.

BBC News - 1d

U.S. deports notorious drug lord dubbed "Friend Killer" back to Mexico

Osiel Cárdenas Guillén created the most bloodthirsty gang of hitmen Mexico has ever known, the Zetas.

CBS News - 1d

FIFPro calls for breaks in women's calendar

FIFPRO is calling for mandatory four-week off-season breaks and two-week in-season breaks to safeguard players from the risks of overload following a new study into the fragmented football calendar.

ESPN - 2d

Notorious drug lord Osiel Cárdenas returned to Mexico after US sentence, is quickly re-arrested

Notorious drug lord Osiel Cárdenas has been returned to Mexico after serving a U.S. sentence and was quickly re-arrested and sent to a maximum security prison to face Mexican charges

ABC News - 2d

UEFA offers record prize money for Women's Euros

Prize money for the 2025 Women's European Championship will more than double compared to the previous edition, with the 16 teams sharing €41 million ($43m), UEFA said Monday.

ESPN - 2d

'Nickel Boys' brings to life the notorious cruelty of a Southern reform school

Film director RaMell Ross is unapologetic about his focus on the Black South in his work, including his latest film ‘Nickel Boys.’

NBC News - 2d

Watch: The Women's Football Show

Highlights of six games in the Women's Super League, including Everton v Manchester City.

BBC News - 3d

Once taboo, more Japanese women are brewing sake

Mie Takahashi is one of a small group of female toji, or master Japanese sake brewers

ABC News - 5d

Women in the military worry about Hegseth's views on women in combat

Women have served in combat roles for the U.S. for more than 30 years, and some veterans and enlisted women worry Pete Hegseth might change that if he's confirmed as defense secretary.

CBS News - 5d

The Art of Hitting in Women’s Hockey

Since the launch of the Professional Women’s Hockey League in January, the game has become more physical than ever before.

The New York Times - 5d

Serena's husband gifts donation to UVA women

Virginia's women's basketball team is getting a "multi-year transformational gift" from alum Alex Ohanian, who is married to Serena Williams.

ESPN - 6d

Trudeau: Harris loss a setback for women in politics

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday addressed Vice President Harris’s loss in the 2024 presidential election, calling it a setback for gender representation in politics, during a gala ...

The Hill - 6d

Facial Hair: The Last Taboo in Women’s Beauty?

Millions of women regularly remove it. Does it have to be that way?

The New York Times - Dec. 12

Syria rebel leader vows to shut down notorious Assad prisons

Abu Mohammed al-Jolani also said he would dissolve the former regime's security forces, in a statement seen by Reuters.

BBC News - Dec. 12

'Executed, Executed, Dead From Sickness': The Grim Records From Syria's Notorious Prison

Syrians searching for missing loved ones are scouring the country’s most notorious prison for information and anyone still alive, while bodies of detainees recovered from the prison fill the ...

The Wall Street Journal - Dec. 12

Syrians search for loved ones at notorious prison after Assad regime's downfall

Two days after rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad's government, the Biden administration said it would recognize the new Syrian government under certain conditions. Meanwhile, Syrians searched for ...

CBS News - Dec. 10

Hegseth faces questions about women's role in the military

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Defense Department, continued meeting with senators on Capitol Hill in an effort to gain enough support for confirmation. Hegseth is ...

CBS News - Dec. 10

Syrians hope to learn fate of lost loved ones after notorious prison liberated

Rebels liberated Syria's notorious Sednaya prison last week. Now, many have come looking for family members in a place where thousands have disappeared over the years. Elizabeth Palmer reports.

CBS News - Dec. 10

Inside Syria's notorious Saydnaya prison

ABC News Chief Foreign Correspondent James Longman reports at Saydnaya prison, where Syrians are searching for their lost loved ones.

ABC News - Dec. 10

Syria's celebrations muted by evidence of torture in Assad's notorious prisons

In Syria’s capital Damascus the hope of a country freed from its longtime dictator Bashar al Assad was starting to fade at the city's Saydnaya military prison.

NBC News - Dec. 10

Women's sports set financial, attendance and viewership records

This year, women's sports are shattering records. Women's elite sports around the world are projected to generate more than a billion dollars in revenue for the first time. The National Women's ...

CBS News - Dec. 10

Syrians search the notorious Saydnaya prison seeking loved ones and answers

The first place hundreds rushed to when news broke that the Assad regime had fallen was the military prison in Saydnaya, a place so notorious for its horrors it was long known as “the slaughterhouse.”

NBC News - Dec. 10

Syrian rebels free prisoners from Assad's notorious dungeons who celebrate in Damascus streets

Tens of thousands of people held in Syria's notorious prisons have been freed in the 10 days since the insurgents began their lightning advance across the country that ended with the toppling of ...

ABC News - Dec. 9

U.S. indictment accuses two Syrian officials of torture at notorious prison

Peaceful protesters, including a 26-year-old American woman, were abused at the torture center.

CBS News - Dec. 9

Biden designates national monument at site of notorious Native American boarding school

President Biden on Monday formally designated the former site of a notorious boarding school for Native American children as a national monument, issuing a formal apology for the practice of ...

The Hill - Dec. 9

Syrians Search Notorious Prison for Thousands of Missing

The regime’s downfall has given hope to families of Syrians who disappeared in recent decades.

The Wall Street Journal - Dec. 9

What we know about the notorious Saydnaya Prison

Thousands of people have been executed and tortured in the secretive prison since the 1980s.

BBC News - Dec. 9

Syrians search notorious Assad jail for underground cells while freed prisoners rejoice

Powerful images have emerged showing Syrians, including women and children, being freed from prisons across the country after the toppling of President Bashar al-Assad.

NBC News - Dec. 9

Videos show 'prisoners being released from cells' in notorious Syrian prison

Videos posted online purported to show rebels freeing dozens of women and men at the notorious Saydnaya prison in Syria.

NBC News - Dec. 9

Reports of people trapped underground at notorious Syrian prison

It is thought thousands of people could still be trapped in hidden parts of the notorious Saydnaya prison.

BBC News - Dec. 9

The FT’s 25 most influential women of 2024

This year we celebrate the women remaking the world we live in today

Financial Times - Dec. 6

Democrats Must Stop Treating Black Women as an Afterthought

If the party fails to see this, it will be the one left behind.

The New York Times - Dec. 5

Women selling sex for gold in the Amazon's illegal mines

Life for women among the Amazon’s illegal gold miners is harsh, violent, and can be deadly.

BBC News - Dec. 5

LPGA updates policy on transgender women golfers

An LPGA policy change means transgender women who have gone through male puberty will not be allowed to compete on leading women's golf tours from next year.

BBC News - Dec. 4

Brazil film portraying notorious crime during dictatorship strikes chord: ‘It hasn’t been overcome’

Abduction and murder of Rubens Paiva under the 1964-85 regime is retold in new box office hit I’m Still Here. They came for Rubens Paiva one Wednesday lunchtime in January 1971, barging into his ...

The Guardian - Dec. 4