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A loss by Britain’s Labour Party earlier this month is emboldening anti-choice activists to study their U.S. counterparts’ playbook in earnest. They hope to make abortion a major issue in the next general election.
The Balkans is a fractured region, still mending from years of ethnic and sectarian war and a media saddled by tycoons peddling nationalistic views. Gordana Igric is determined to bring the Balkans together through a truer, independent journalism.
After 18 years of covering the harsh effects of the Taliban–particularly on women–Kathy Gannon, the celebrated AP correspondent, is leaving her base in Pakistan to reopen the AP’s news bureau in Tehran.
For two years, a burned-out theater in Islamabad was dark. Now, the theater’s owner has transformed it into a private care center for 60 paralyzed women who were injured in October’s massive earthquake.