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A scene from the documentary 'Heroic Bodies,' a history of Sudanese women's repression and revolution.

New film brings Sudanese women’s fight to the big screen

Director Sara Suleiman has not flinched from showing a history suffering and exploitation, but the rare and dazzling quality of this documentary is its all-pervading sense of hope and optimism

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Artificial Intelligence is helping human endeavour in all manner of fields but the technology is no longer in its infancy and should be equalising imbalances, not accentuating them.

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President of Spain Pedro Sanchez, center bottom, addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

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Few men in power have delved deeply into gender equality on the main stage of the United Nations this month, but the ones who did went there boldly: claiming feminist credibility, selling “positive…

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Thousands of women participate in 'Women's March for Bread and Roses' in central London as part of global protest taking place in 30 countries around the world. (Getty)

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