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On This Day, Dec. 10: Mary Barra becomes 1st woman to lead major automaker
United Press International via Yahoo News· 6 months agoOn December 10, 2013, Mary Barra became CEO of General Motors, the first woman to head a major...
Jailed Iranian Activist and Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi Goes on Hunger Strike
Time via Yahoo News· 7 months agoIranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi attends a meeting on women's rights in Tehran, Aug....
Narges Mohammadi is the 5th Nobel peace laureate to win while imprisoned. Here are the others
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee urged Iran to release imprisoned peace prize winner Narges...
Jailed Iranian rights activist Narges Mohammadi wins Nobel Peace Prize
Semafor via Yahoo News· 8 months agoNarges Mohammadi, a jailed Iranian human rights activist, won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize. The...
Rights group: China sentences 2 lawyers on 'farcical' charge
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTwo prominent Chinese human rights lawyers have been sentenced to more than a decade in prison,...
International campaign launched to nominate Uygur scholar Ilham Tohti for the Nobel Peace Prize
South China Morning Post via Yahoo Finance· 6 months agoAn international campaign to nominate the jailed Uygur scholar Ilham Tohti for the Nobel Peace Prize...
In echo of Cold War, Nobel Peace Prize goes to Ukraine, Russia, Belarus rights campaigners
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJailed Belarusian activist Ales Byalyatski, Russian rights group Memorial and Ukraine's Center for...
How China’s Xi Jinping flipped the script on the world during his 10 years in power
Good Morning America via Yahoo News· 2 years agoXi Jinping will stroll across the red-carpeted dais inside Beijing’s gargantuan Great Hall of the...
UPDATE 1-Russia wants to turn Ukraine into 'dependent' like Belarus, wife of jailed Nobel laureate...
Reuters via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoRussia wants to turn Ukraine into a "dependent dictatorship" like Belarus, the wife of jailed Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Byalyatski said on Saturday upon receiving the prize ...
Protests in China are not rare -- but the current unrest is significant
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoProtesters march along a street in Beijing on Nov. 28, 2022. Noel Celis/AFP via Getty ImagesStreet...