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US President Joe Biden's Middle East advisor is holding talks in the region on a new, possibly longer deal for the release of Israeli hostages in exchange for a pause in fighting in Gaza, the White House says. SOUNDBITE
Presidential campaigns today seem to be massive, well-oiled machines. But that doesn't mean American election history is without its oddities. For example, the Farmers Almanac says President Zachary Taylor never, ever voted. He kept his political beliefs a secret all the way up until his 1848 election. According to The Famer's Almanac, George Washington’s entire campaign budget for his 1758 election to the House of Burgesses was spent on liquor. Borrowing an English tradition, Washington spent 50 British pounds on 160 gallons of alcohol that was given to 390 voters. Originally, only white male American property owners could vote in US elections. But the 1920 Nineteenth Amendment gave women the right to vote, too. According to the Farmer's Almanac, since 1964, more women voters have gone to the polls than male voters during presidential election years.
Jalalabad, Sep 16 (EFE/EPA).- Dozens of women gathered on Wednesday in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad for a peaceful protest to defend their rights saying they want to be part of the peace process. Peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban began earlier this week. (Camera: GHULAMULLAH HABIBI).SHOT LIST: WOMEN GATHER FOR A PROTEST TO DEMAND PRESERVATION OF THEIR RIGHTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS, IN JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN.SOUND BITE: MUQADASA SALARZIA, THE CHIEF OF FEMALE'S FOUNDATION IN JALALABAD.TRANSLATION: We want peace in Afghanistan. We stand to support the Afghan forces and to give each other a hand to get peace. (00:38-01:06).
Tunisian women of the Falgatna collective perform in Arabic the Chilean viral feminist anthem turned into a mighty global roar against sexual violence "The Rapist is You!" during a flashmob in Tunis. IMAGES
US Vice President Mike Pence says the participants of the talks on the Middle East in Warsaw agree Iran is the 'greatest threat' in the Middle East. SOUNDBITE from Mike Pence
Women living in Haji Ali, a group of villages numbering about 40,000 people in northern Iraq about 40 miles south of Mosul, have taken up arms to protect the area from Islamic State militants. IS-controlled villages are only about a mile away, so women have learned how to use weapons and have started guarding their families' houses at night, in order to help their men, which rotate in and out of the frontline. Villagers fear that IS could sneak across the Tigris river and into the village under the cover of night, and are complaining that locals don't have enough weapons to defend themselves.
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