Palestinian women claim place in soccer
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No field, no money, no wins &#151; it's been tough going for the fledgling Palestinian women's national soccer team.
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GAZA CITY -- For years, the seaside Flower of the Cities resort was that rare place in the Gaza Strip where the dress code did not rule out bikinis. Now, with some of its cinder-block cabanas turned into prayer rooms, the beach club shows how Hamas is consolidating its hold here three months after...
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Women faced pressure not to run as candidates in the Palestinian local elections. But they did &#151; and they won, with more than half of them defeating their male opponents in this conservative, traditional Arabic society.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank Two unlikely factors - the maneuverings of Hamas, a group the United States considers a chief sponsor of terrorism, and a widespread fear of chaos among Palestinians - are combining to create some hope in the run-up to next month&#39;s
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Description: NPR&#39;s Tavis Smiley speaks with Nadia Hijab, executive director of the Palestine Center in Washington, DC, and Dr.
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NABLUS, West Bank  - A Palestinian man demanding medical expenses for a battle wound abducted three American women near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday, and freed them an hour later, Palestinian sources said.
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In the violent and volatile world of Israeli-Palestinian relations, a football club Bnei Sakhnin has become a beacon of some hope.
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ATHENS: Over the past 13 years, they talked about the team, about being teammates. The members of the US womenâs soccer team talked about little kids who needed strong female role models - women athletes to look up to, emulate.
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A few US women&#39;s soccer players scooped up small pieces of sod at Karaiskaki Stadium after their emotional gold-medal victory last week.
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ATHENS, Greece -- The decisive move in the Olympic women&#39;s soccer tournament was soaring toward the head of Abby Wambach when the ball and a thought arrived at her noggin about the same time.
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Palestinian leaders have confirmed that they will fly to Paris to see Yasser Arafat, despite the ailing President&#39;s wife accusing them of trying to steal his powers.
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Venus Williams of the United States returns the ball to Croatia&#39;s Karolina Sprem, during their first round match, at the Swisscom Challenge Tennis Tournament in Kloten, Switzerland, Tuesday, Oct.19, 2004.
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The organizers of Bangladesh's first women's soccer tournament promised to keep playing despite protests by a Muslim group that called the event "indecent and against Islamic norms".
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Three American women seen taking photos near a West Bank refugee camp were kidnapped on Tuesday, Palestinian security officials said. There was no claim of responsibility by an armed Palestinian group, but a man calling himself Hadi Saud contacted The Associated Press in Nablus and said he was the kidnapper.
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FOXBOROUGH -- A year and a half ago, Brad and Jennifer Gideon moved to Taunton from Tennessee, and one of the first things they did was buy Revolution season tickets. The Gideons grew up playing soccer, and were excited that a Major League Soccer team played within driving distance of their new home.
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Two Palestinian women weep outside Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat&#39;s headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Thursday Oct. 28, 2004.
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Heraklio, Greece (Sports Network) - The old faces of US women&#39;s soccer bid adieu, while the new faces introduced themselves in a gold-medal winning effort at the Athens Olympics on Thursday night at Karaiskaki Stadium.