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Romania's most powerful politician convicted of misconduct

Dothan Eagle 22 Jun 2018

As leader of Romania's ruling party leader, Dragnea normally would be the country's prime minister ... Prosecutors said Dragnea intervened from 2008 to 2010, when he was a government official, to keep two women employed by his party on the payroll of the family welfare agency. The women admitted working for the party while they received salaries from the public agency....

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Romania’s most powerful politician convicted of misconduct

Arabnews 22 Jun 2018

“I respect the magistrates who today respected the robes they wear and the oath they took.” Prosecutors said Dragnea intervened from 2008 to 2010, when he was a government official, to keep two women employed by his party on the payroll of the family welfare agency. The women admitted working for the party while they received salaries from the public agency....

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Political milestones for women after NZ premier gives birth

The News International 22 Jun 2018

Despite being ahead of the curve with universal suffrage, New Zealand didn’t get its first female MP until 1933, while Australia elected two women lawmakers to its national parliament in 1943.The first woman elected to Britain’s House of Commons was Constance Markievicz in 1918, although as a member of the Irish republican party Sinn Fein, she did not take her seat....

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Burger giant says sorry for 'sex with WC players' campaign

The Times of India 22 Jun 2018

Burger King has apologised for an online ad offering burgers to Russian women who get impregnated by football players during the World Cup the country is hosting until July 15 ... Women who manage to get the best football genes will ensure Russia's success in future generations." ... A Communist Party parliamentarian, Tamara Pletneva, told a radio station that the World Cup could leave Russian women raising children "of another race"....

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“Gross, But Constitutional”: How Millennials Have Shifted on L.G.B.T.Q. Rights

Vanity Fair 22 Jun 2018

rights, while young Democrat and Democratic-leaning women were the least likely ... Nearly 60 percent of conservative millennial women believe equality has been achieved, and more than 70 percent of conservative male millennials feel the same ... characters appeared in TV shows, and the Democratic party’s 2016 platform was historic in its inclusivity....

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Top exec leaves Freedom Oklahoma

The Norman Transcript 22 Jun 2018

Stevenson was known as a person of reconciliation and education who reached across the aisle to advocate for gay rights with members of the Republican party, but that made him controversial with some in the LGBTQ community ... Stevenson left the Democratic party a year ago, changing his lifelong party registration to Independent after fielding criticism for his work with GOP lawmakers, the dominant party in Oklahoma politics....

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Trump's Family Separation Policy Has Officially Pushed American Support for Immigration to Record Highs

Alternet 22 Jun 2018

A record-high 75 percent of Americans, including majorities across all parties, say immigration is good for the nation, according the Gallup ... Additionally, solid majorities of both parties—85 percent of Democrats/leaners and 65 percent of Republicans/leaners—have a favorable view of immigration ... Those figures leave 21 percent of GOP women undecided as well—voters Cruz doesn't want to lose in a race where his Democratic challenger, Rep....

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Political parties slated for ignoring labourers in their manifestos

The News International 22 Jun 2018

... said that home-based workers of the unorganised sector should be registered with the social security and pensions institutions.Qurat Mirza from the Women Action Forum (WAF), a noted human rights campaigner, said that women must figure in the political parties’ manifestos as they made an indispensable contribution to the national economy....

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Disgruntled PTI activists term award of tickets totally unjust

The News International 22 Jun 2018

... had also been given prominent place in the priority list of the PTI candidates for women’s reserved seats in KP Assembly.Another senior party member, Yousaf Ali said that PTI had swept Peshawar, Swabi, Mardan and Nowshera during the 2013 elections, but this time, 18 tickets had been gifted to four chosen families in disregard of merit....

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A woman fighting on many fronts

Dawn 22 Jun 2018

However, she looks hopeful despite it all as she calls it her advantage to be an educated woman appealing to the educated women and men, who never vote ... She visits far flung villages and delivers speeches at separate corner meetings of men and women ... Her main office was out of bound for women voters ... She has opened a separate election office for women in the main town and is setting up committees to mobilise female voters....

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Heist films are like superhero movies: Awkwafina

Suryaa 22 Jun 2018

The 'Ocean's 8' women are criminals, but at the same time they are doing this for a reason," she added.  ... After getting out of jail, she recruits seven women -- Cate Blanchett, Rihanna, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Awkwafina and Helena Bonham Carter -- to help her pull off a jewellery heist at the annual Met Gala in New York. ....

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NASA’s pioneering women almost left men in the shadows

Sunday Post 22 Jun 2018

IF a high-ranking American had just made a slightly different decision 50 years ago, the world’s women would have had a very different tale to tell. In fact, women would have proved they were out of this world ... Britain already has its second female prime minister, the USA could soon get its first female president, and several of the UK’s political parties are led by women....

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Letter: Republican Party should examine its bad policies

The Buffalo News 22 Jun 2018

I seldom agree with Republican party policies, but in 50-plus years of political awareness I have not questioned the basic decency of Republican leaders ... who boasts of grabbing women’s genitals....

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