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Ros Russell

Ros Russell is Global News Desk Editor at Reuters. She s the author of ‘The End of Where We Begin’ & ‘Burma’s Spring’

<p>Employees walk after work, outside the new building of Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in the New Administrative Capital (NAC), east of Cairo, Egypt</p>

Fears new law will force doctors to leave Egypt

<p>An Iranian woman was arrested after she stripped down to her undergarments to protest her alleged assault by security forces over improper hijab<em> </em></p>

Iranian student who stripped in public is ‘receiving treatment’