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In this frame grab from Saudi state television footage, doctoral student and women's rights advocate Salma al-Shehab speaks to a journalist at the Riyadh International Book Fair in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in March 2014. (Saudi state television via AP, File)

Saudi authorities free doctoral student initially sentenced to 34 years for tweets, activists say

A Saudi doctoral student at Leeds University in Britain has been freed after seeing her 34-year sentence for her activity on Twitter in Saudi Arabia drastically reduced.
 
The U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, is pictured Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Frozen USAID funding strands groups that support marginalized people in the Western Balkans

 
Washington Attorney General Nick Brown departs a press availability after a federal judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship in a case brought by the states of Washington, Arizona, Illinois and Oregon, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Justice Department appeals as second judge in 2 days blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order

 
A man walks past boxes of USAID humanitarian aid at a warehouse at the Tienditas International Bridge on the outskirts of Cucuta, Colombia, Feb. 21, 2019, on the border with Venezuela. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

USAID is going away. Here’s what it’s been doing in South America

 
This is a locator map for Iraq with its capital, Baghdad. (AP Photo)

Iraq’s top court suspends new legislation that activists say undermines women’s rights

 

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Women play their drums as they march against gender-based violence marking International Women's Day, in Mexico City, Friday, March 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Aurea del Rosario)

Facing historic shifts, Latin American women bathe streets in purple on International Women’s Day

 
Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti and French President Emmanuel Macron, background right, attendattend a ceremony to seal the right to abortion in the French constitution, on International Women's Day, at the Place Vendome, in Paris, France March 8, 2024. France inscribed the guaranteed right to abortion in its constitution Friday, a powerful message of support for women's right on International Women's Day. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Pool Photo via AP)

France enshrines abortion as a constitutional right as the world marks International Women’s Day

 
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, at podium, speaks during a news conference in Mineola, N.Y., Wednesday, March 6, 2024. The Republican official in New York City's suburbs, who prohibited transgender athletes from participating in girls and women's sports competitions, has asked a federal court to affirm that he has the power to implement the ban. (AP Photo/Philip Marcelo)

County leader sues New York over an order to rescind his ban on transgender female athletes

 
A woman receives an underwear for periods free of charge at a pharmacy in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, March 5, 2024. Spain's Catalonia region rolled out this week a pioneering women's health initiative that offers millions of women reusable menstruation products for free. Some 2.5 million women in northeast Spain can receive one menstrual cup, one pair of underwear for periods, and two packages of cloth pads at local pharmacies free of charge. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

The Spanish region of Catalonia offers women and girls free and reusable menstruation products

 
Three men arrested for the alleged gang rape of a Spanish tourist are brought by police to be produced before the Dumka District Court in Dumka, Jharkhand, India, Monday, March 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar)

Gang rape of a tourist in India highlights its struggle to curb sexual violence against women

 
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal speaks during the Congress of both Houses of Parliament at the Palace of Versailles, west of Paris, Monday, March 4, 2024. French lawmakers gather at the Palace of Versailles for a historic vote that will make abortion a constitutional right. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

France becomes the only country to explicitly guarantee abortion as a constitutional right

 
Cyndi Lauper arrives at the 74th annual Tony Awards in New York on Sept. 26, 2021, left, and Bjorn Ulvaeus appears at the premiere of "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again" in London on July 16, 2018. (AP Photo)

Cyndi Lauper inks deal with firm behind ABBA Voyage for new immersive performance project

 
First lady Jill Biden speaks to the National Governors Association during an event in the East Room of the White House, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The Biden campaign is launching a nationwide effort to win the women’s vote. Jill Biden will lead it

 
FILE - A Nobel medal is displayed during a ceremony in New York, on Dec. 8, 2020. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, that it had registered a total of 285 candidates for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize by the Feb. 1 deadline, down from 2023 when it received 351 valid nominations. (Angela Weiss/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Committee says 285 people and organizations nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize

 
Max Varney, right, listens to other speakers at a public hearing after voicing opposition to a proposed "Women's Bill of Rights" Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, in the House chambers at the West Virginia Capitol in Charleston, W.Va. Opponents believe the bill would suppress transgender rights in the state. (AP Photo/John Raby)

A West Virginia ‘Women’s Bill of Rights’ is an effort to suppress transgender people, critics say

 
FILE - Rafael Nadal of Spain reflects between games in his quarter-final match against Jordan Thompson of Australia during the Brisbane International tennis tournament in Brisbane, Australia, Friday, Jan. 5, 2024. Nadal withdrew from the Australian Open with an injury a week before the season's first major was due to start after playing just one tournament in his comeback from 12 months on the sidelines. (AP Photo/Tertius Pickard, File)

Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Jannik Sinner and others set for Saudi Arabia exhibition

 

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FILE - A Nobel medal is displayed during a ceremony in New York, Tuesday Dec. 8, 2020. The doors close Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, for nominations for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, with peace activists connected to the wars in Gaza and Ukraine among the known entries. The Norwegian Nobel Committee keeps the nominations secret, but those with nomination rights sometimes make their picks public. (Angela Weiss/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize end Wednesday. Not all of them are secret

 
FILE - Former tennis players Martina Navratilova, left, and Chris Evert are introduced before the start of the women's championship match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. Hall of Famers Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova are calling on the women's tennis tour to stay out of Saudi Arabia, saying that holding the WTA Finals there “would represent not progress, but significant regression.” (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Ambassador responds to call by Evert and Navratilova to keep women’s tennis out of Saudi Arabia

 

Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova urge women’s tennis to stay out of Saudi Arabia

 

Czech lawmakers reject international women’s rights treaty

 

Costa Rican court allows citizens to choose order of last names, citing gender discrimination

 
FILE - North Dakota Special Assistant Attorney General Dan Gaustad, right, argues before South Central District Judge Bruce Romanick, not pictured, during a hearing, Dec. 20, 2023, in Bismarck, N.D, over the state's revised abortion laws. At left is Meetra Mehdizadeh, attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights, who argued on behalf of the Red River Women's Clinic, which has sued over the abortion ban. A North Dakota judge on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, denied a temporary block on a part of the state's revised abortion laws so that doctors can perform the procedure to save a patient's life or health. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, File)

North Dakota judge won’t block part of abortion law doctors say puts them at risk of prosecution

 

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FILE - Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, attends a roundtable discussion with Jewish leaders about the rise in antisemitism and efforts to fight hate in the United States in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus in Washington, Dec. 7, 2022. Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, is taking his advocacy against antisemitism, Islamophobia and other forms of hate to the Swiss Alps. Aides tell The Associated Press that Emhoff will attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this week. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Emhoff will discuss antisemitism and gender equity at World Economic Forum meeting in Switzerland

 
Brittany Watts, center, speaks to a rally of supporters, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, in Warren, Ohio. A grand jury on Thursday decided that Watts, who was facing criminal charges for her handling of a home miscarriage, will not be charged. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Ohio woman who miscarried at home won’t be charged with corpse abuse, grand jury decides

 

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Britain's Home Secretary James Cleverly arrives for a Cabinet meeting in London, England, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023. (James Manning/PA via AP)

British home secretary under fire for making joke about date rape drug

 
FILE - Actor Gerard Depardieu attends the premiere of the movie "Tour de France" in Paris, France, Monday, Nov. 14, 2016. French actor Gerard Depardieu's behavior came under scrutiny in France after a new documentary showed him repeatedly making obscene remarks and gestures towards women, as new sexual misconduct accusations emerged against him. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

France’s president is accused of siding with Depardieu as actor faces sexual misconduct allegations

 
North Dakota Special Assistant Attorney General Dan Gaustad argues before South Central District Judge Bruce Romanick, not pictured, in a hearing Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023, in Bismarck, N.D, over the state's revised abortion laws. At left is Meetra Mehdizadeh, attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights, who argued on behalf of the Red River Women's Clinic, which has sued over the abortion ban. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)

North Dakota judge to decide whether to temporarily block part of abortion law that limits doctors

 
Voice coach Vuthipand Pongtanalert, left, instructs members of The Bangkok Gay Men's Chorus in a lesson in in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023. Thailand's Parliament is set to debate Thursday, Dec. 21, a final cabinet-endorsed draft bill to pass landmark legislation allowing members of the LGBTQ+ community to get married. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thailand’s LGBTQ+ community hopeful as marriage equality bill is set to be discussed in Parliament

 
FILE - The U.S. Supreme Court is seen, with a carving of Justice in the foreground, April 19, 2023, in Washington. A Black Ohio woman who miscarried in her bathroom has been charged with abuse of a corpse and awaits grand jury action. Her case has sparked a national firestorm over the plight of pregnant women, especially women of color, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Reproductive rights group urges Ohio prosecutor to drop criminal charge against woman who miscarried

 
FILE - Phil Mickelson lines up a shot on the 18th hole during the first round of the Bedminster Invitational LIV Golf tournament in Bedminster, N.J., July 29, 2022. At the dawn of 2023, the specter of Saudi Arabia’s growing influence on pro golf — and sports in general — served not only as a moral conundrum for players and their fans, but also, some argued, as an existential threat to the multibillion-dollar professional-sports industry itself. Twelve months later, it's a different conversation, now virtually devoid of concern about supposed “sportswashing” and more fixed on just how rich the Saudis might make all these athletes before they’re done investing. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

In 2023, the Saudis dove further into sports. They are expected to keep it up in 2024

 
FILE - Taylor Swift performs during "The Eras Tour," May 5, 2023, at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tenn. Swift is adding one more accolade to her repertoire this year: a resolution recognizing 2023 as the Taylor Swift era in her home state of Pennsylvania. The resolution passed the state House of Representatives on Wednesday, Dec. 13. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)

Pennsylvania is in its Taylor Swift era, her home state decides

 
FILE - Escort volunteers line up outside the EMW Women's Surgical Center, on Monday, July 17, 2017, in Louisville, Ky. A pregnant woman in Kentucky who filed a lawsuit demanding the right to an abortion has learned her embryo no longer has cardiac activity, her attorneys said Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023. Her attorneys didn't immediately comment on what effect the development would have on the lawsuit filed last week in a state court in Louisville. (AP Photo/Dylan Lovan, File)

Kentucky woman seeking court approval for abortion learned her embryo no longer has cardiac activity

 
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