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Kidnapping for ransom has become rife in northwestern Nigeria in recent years.

Israel accused Spain and Belgium of “supporting terrorism” after they called on the EU to recognise the Palestinian state and stop its bombardment of Gaza.

Ukraine’s capital experienced the brunt of what the military said was the largest Russian drone attack on the country since Moscow’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.

In the late 1960s, Denmark implemented a brutal contraceptive policy to limit births in its former colony of Greenland, forcing thousands of teenage girls to have IDUs inserted without their consent. After decades of repressing their trauma, the women are now speaking out and demanding reparation.

Pope Francis has cancelled his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s square due to illness

Kathy Kleiner Rubin says it is about time we stop glamourising him and remember the women whose lives he stole.

A disabled hunter accidentally shot a 47-year-old woman in the abdomen as she walked her dog in Wisconsin.

Hamas releases Thai hostages as Israel waits for 13 to be freed 13 women and children, who were kidnapped by…

Oscar Pistorius to be freed on parole Oscar Pistorius – the former South African Paralympic champion, will be freed from…

The statistics are as damning as they are grim. In the EU, one in three women aged 15 or over has experienced physical or sexual violence – or both. More than half of all women in Europe have been sexually harassed. Only a fifth of women in the EU go to the police when an intimate partner assaults them. Meanwhile, EU member states have failed to agree on how to address the worst crimes against women. Several countries continue to resist calls by Brussels to define non-consensual sex as rape, punishable by a stiff jail sentence. Today, in 2023, there is no common set of rules in the EU to punish rape, to the growing dismay of many. As Europe prepares to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25, we discuss the issue with two MEPs.