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Protests have broken out across India’s southern state of Karnataka after prime minister Narendra Modi’s party banned students from wearing religious garments in schools.
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Mona Heydari, a 17-year-old girl, has been allegedly beheaded by her husband in Iran’s Khuzestan province for “dishonoring” her family.
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Free skier and breakout star of the Beijing 2022 Games Eileen Gu wrapped up her inaugural Olympics with a hat trick of medals, two golds and one silver, as well as the adoration and love of the host nation.
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A 38-year-old Salvadoran woman has been released after serving 10 years in prison for suffering a miscarriage.
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Swedish figure skater Josefina Taljegård defied tradition as the only woman athlete wearing pants for the women’s short program at the Beijing Olympics.
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Belarusian skier Darya Dolidovich has fled the country with her family after being barred from competing in the Beijing Winter Olympics allegedly for joining the country’s opposition movement.
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Russian teen figure skater Kamila Valieva will be allowed to continue to compete at the Beijing Winter Olympics after testing positive for a banned substance weeks ago but will not receive any medals until her case is resolved.
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Australian prime minister Scott Morrison has formally apologized to the women who were sexually assaulted while working in the country’s parliament.
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Zhu Yi, a 19-year-old US-born figure skater who gave up her US citizenship to compete for China at the Beijing Olympics, is facing intense backlash on Chinese social after she fell during her debut on Sunday Feb. 6.
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The opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics kicked off on Friday, Feb. 4 in Beijing, China, filled with bold political undertones.
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Ashling Murphy, a 23-year-old first-grade teacher in Ireland, was attacked and strangled in broad daylight when she was jogging along a canal in Tullamore, County Offaly on Jan. 12.
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Charlotte Bellis, a pregnant New Zealand journalist who was stranded in Afghanistan and unable to return home due to New Zealand’s strict COVID-19 entry restrictions, has been granted entry back home.