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WOMEN IN THE NEWS TODAY (4#) -

# Gal Talk Radio owner Zakia Zaki, 35, was fatally shot 7 times as she slept in her own home in the town of Jabal as Siraj in Parvan Province, about 40 miles north of Kabul, Afghanistan. [bbc]

# Sigma Huda, a UN human rights expert,
has been prevented from leaving Bangladesh
for almost a month. [bbc]

# Catching up with...
Malalai Joya, MP Afghan. [Ltimes]

# And, using up almost all the oxygen
in the room... Paris Hilton. Try ::TMZ::

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