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UK teen found in France returned for better 'future'
AFP, Published on 22/12/2023
» LONDON - A UK teen who resurfaced in France six years after going missing, has told a newspaper that he decided to return to Britain because he wanted a better future.
UK teen missing for years to return home
AFP, Published on 16/12/2023
» TOULOUSE, France - A British 17-year-old found in France six years after going missing in Spain is to return home to England this weekend, a French deputy prosecutor said on Friday.
After five years of driving, roadblocks remain for Saudi women
AFP, Published on 07/07/2023
» RIYADH: It has been five years since Jawhara al-Wabili became one of Saudi Arabia's first women drivers -- a reform she saw as revolutionary, even as some activists dismissed it as window-dressing.
Rescued Colombian kids in ‘high spirits’
AFP, Published on 13/06/2023
» BOGOTA: The four Indigenous children rescued after wandering the Colombian Amazon for 40 days are recovering and in "high spirits", welfare officials said Monday, even drawing a picture thought to depict a missing army search dog.
Kuwait army allows women in combat roles, but without guns
AFP, Published on 17/02/2022
» KUWAIT CITY - Kuwaiti women are angry after the military, having allowed female soldiers in combat roles, decided they need the permission of a male guardian and banned them from carrying weapons.
Britney Spears' lawyers push for end to father's control
AFP, Published on 30/09/2021
» LOS ANGELES - Britney Spears' bid to end her father's controversial guardianship could reach its conclusion in a new court hearing in Los Angeles on Wednesday, after weeks of twists and turns -- and two major new documentaries about the pop star.
'Traumatized' Britney Spears urges judge to end guardianship
AFP, Published on 24/06/2021
» LOS ANGELES - Britney Spears urged a judge in an emotional hearing Wednesday to end an "abusive" guardianship that gave her father control of her affairs in 2008.
Britney Spears says she 'cried for weeks' over documentary
AFP, Published on 31/03/2021
» PARIS - Britney Spears said she was "embarrassed" and "cried for two weeks" over her portrayal in a recent documentary about her career and mental health problems.
Egypt's Sisi warns of 'direct intervention' in Libya
AFP, Published on 21/06/2020
» CAIRO - Egypt's president warned Saturday that advances by Turkey-backed Libyan forces on the Libyan city of Sirte could prompt an Egyptian military intervention in the neighbouring country in support of Cairo's ally Khalifa Haftar.
As society opens, Saudi women surge into job market
AFP, Published on 28/04/2020
» RIYADH: Like thousands of Saudi women, Rouaa al-Mousa entered the workforce as reforms sweep the ultra-conservative kingdom and is certain that neither grumbling male bosses nor the coronavirus will change that.