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Saudi Arabian women vote for the first time in local council elections and also stand as candidates, a step hailed by some activists in the Islamic patriarchy as a historic change, but criticized by others as merely symbolic. Pavithra George reports.
Passengers undergo temperature checks at the departure hall for domestic flights at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh following a sanitary protocol amid the coronavirus pandemic after Saudi lifted a domestic travel ban. IMAGES 1st IMAGES
Kanye West has supported two local charities to help provide meals to those in need during the coronavirus pandemic.
Lima, Dec 16 (EFE) .- Fernanda Kanno, the first Peruvian woman to run and finish the Dakar, will be the only female representative of the Americas at the premiere of the toughest rally in the world, in Saudi Arabia, a country where only a year and a half ago women were forbidden to drive.(CAMARA: Mikhail Huacan)SOUNDBITES: FERNANDA KANNOTRANSLATION"This adventure of running the Dakar, for me, does not happen so much for the fact of being a woman, but for the fact of being a person like any other who fulfills her dreams. I really appreciate being the first Peruvian woman who runs the Dakar, the first Peruvian woman who finished it, and that many women say: 'OK, we are achieving things, we will be united, if Fernanda can then many women can achieve things that were always denied to us or that we always thought that were not possible, but I hope the world one day will be so beautiful that we will stop talking about men and women and just talk about people. Everyone’s goal I think should be that, instead of highlighting things because of the fact that I’m a woman, highlight things by the fact that we are people with big dreams, but that can be fulfilled "
Female racing driver Aseel Al Hamad celebrated the end of the ban on women drivers with a lap of honour in a Jaguar F-TYPE. Aseel, the first female board member of the Saudi Arabian Motor Federation, had never driven on a track in her home country before. Aseel joined Jaguar in a call for June 24th to be known as World Driving Day – a day when finally, the whole world can enjoy the thrill of being behind the wheel of a car. On World Driving Day Jaguar invites people to share a memory of their best driving moment (image or anecdote) using the #WorldDrivingDay.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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