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Car bombs and militant attacks no longer a daily concern in the streets of Baghdad, many young Iraqis say their opportunities remain limited. The Iraqi capital of nearly 9 million has seen some efforts to restore public parks and cultural spaces but these have largely overlooked youth-focused projects. That may be starting to change with the opening of Baghdad's first skate park this weekend. Skater Mohammed Al-Qadi says he and his friends used to be chased off by authorities, risked colliding with cars and faced safety risks due to uneven terrain and lack of designated areas.
Women represent half of the U.S. population. But it’s still rare in some states for female lawmakers to have leading roles in budget matters. Only one woman serves on Mississippi's 14-member Joint Legislative Budget Committee, which sets spending priorities. No woman has ever led a tax or budget committee in South Carolina. Experts say committee assignments are often made based on seniority, a disadvantage for women in some states who have less tenure than their male counterparts. Just over 2,400 women are serving in state legislatures across the U.S., a bit over 33% of the total. That's according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.
A government memo aimed at implementing President Donald Trump’s order rolling back protections for transgender people has rippled through the federal government as agencies scrambled to make changes to strip “gender ideology” from websites, contracts and emails. The Office of Personnel Management directed agency heads to have staff remove pronouns from their government emails, disband employee resource groups, and terminate grants and contracts related to the issue. The directive was sent Wednesday and ordered the changes instituted by 5 p.m. Friday. It also asked agencies to remove the term “gender” from government forms and swap it out with “sex.”
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After a decade of making history French soccer referee Stéphanie Frappart is using her experience to help more women take up the profession. She was the first woman to referee a men’s Ligue 1 game in France and the first woman to referee a men’s World Cup game. Frappart is working with France’s national postal service on a committee promoting female referees called “Women and Refereeing.” The ambition is to increase female match officials in all sports. In an interview with The Associated Press Frappart says “you have to increase the numbers of women playing football, which in turn increases the number of referees."
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FILE - Referee Stephanie Frappart gives directions during the French Cup final soccer match between Nice and Nantes at the Stade de France stadium, in Saint Denis, north of Paris, Saturday, May 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)
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FILE -Dynamo Kyiv's Illya Zabarnyi gets a yellow card from referee Stephanie Frappart during a Champions League, group G soccer match between Juventus and Dinamo Kiev at the Allianz Stadium in Turin, Italy, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. (Marco Alpozzi/LaPresse via AP, File)
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FILE -Referee Stephanie Frappart cheers with Netherlands' Matthijs de Ligt at the end of the World Cup 2022 group G qualifying soccer match between The Netherlands and Latvia at the Johan Cruyff ArenA in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Saturday, March 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)
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Tony Finau is now a father of six. His wife gave birth to their latest child over the weekend and it included an unusual gender reveal. Finau waited until after the baby was born to let his five children guess the gender. He brought them into the hospital room where mother Alayna had the newborn wrapped in a blanket with only the face showing. Each child tried to guess the gender and they all said it was a boy. Finau's wife unwrapped the blanket to reveal the baby dressed in pink. Finau now has three sons and three daughters.
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Cricketer Firooza Amiri says her team will "represent millions of women in Afghanistan who are denied their rights” when the side reunites after more than three years for an exhibition game in Australia on Thursday. An Afghanistan Women’s XI will play a Cricket Without Borders XI in the match at Melbourne’s Junction Oval. It will bring together 21 female players who were formerly contracted by the Afghanistan Cricket Board before the Taliban regime re-retook control in August 2021. Since fleeing Afghanistan, the women cricketers, banned from playing in their home country, have been based in Canberra and Melbourne and playing for various club teams in local competitions.