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UK Spy Agency MI6 Appoints First Female Chief in 116-Year History

16 juin 2025 à 13:56
A former “Q,” she will be the first woman to lead Britain’s foreign intelligence service in the agency’s 116-year history.

© United Kingdom Foreign Office, via The Associated Press

Blaise Metreweli, named the next chief of MI6, in a photograph supplied by the British Foreign Office. She will lead the organization where she has worked for more than 25 years.

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, 95, Dies; Led Nicaragua After Civil War

14 juin 2025 à 12:20
The first woman to lead a Central American country, she served in the 1990s after the nation had been shaken by political strife.

© John Hopper/Associated Press

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro received the presidential sash from Nicaragua’s outgoing leader, Daniel Ortega, in April 1990. Her election stunned many people in Nicaragua and around the world.

A DNA Technique Is Finding Women Who Left Their Babies for Dead

3 juin 2025 à 10:58
Genetic genealogy is identifying the mothers of deceased newborns found abandoned, shedding light on crimes that went unsolved for years. Women now may face lengthy prison sentences for decades-old chapters of their pasts.

© Jordan Vonderhaar for The New York Times

Wayne Springer, a former investigator for Medina County, at the site in Hondo, Texas, where a deceased newborn was found.

She Crowdfunded Surgery to Repair Damage From Genital Cutting

2 juin 2025 à 05:00
Shamsa Sharawe made her name campaigning against female genital cutting. Then she heard about surgery to rebuild what had been taken from her.

© Nariman El-Mofty for The New York Times

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