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# Minami-Urawa Station

Minami-Urawa Station (南浦和駅, Minami-Urawa-eki) is a junction passenger railway station located in Minami-ku, Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

## Lines

Minami-Urawa Station is served by the Keihin-Tōhoku Line linking Saitama Prefecture with central Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture, and the orbital Musashino Line. Many Keihin-Tōhoku services originate and terminate at this station. The station is located 31.7 kilometers from Fuchūhommachi Station on the Musashino Line.

## Station layout

The station consists of two island platforms for the Keihin-Tōhoku Line, serving four tracks, with two opposed elevated side platforms for the Musashino Line located above and at a right angle to the island platforms. The station building is elevated and is located on a mezzanine level in between the two sets of platforms. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

### Platforms

| 1, 2 | JK Keihin-Tōhoku Line | for Ueno, Tokyo, Shinagawa, Yokohama, and Negishi Line for Ōfuna |
| 3, 4 | JK Keihin-Tōhoku Line | for Kita-Urawa, Yono, and Ōmiya |
| 5 | JM Musashino Line | for Kita-Asaka, Nishi-Kokubunji, and Fuchūhommachi |
| 6 | JM Musashino Line | for Shim-Matsudo, Nishi-Funabashi, Tokyo, and Kaihimmakuhari |

## History

The station opened on July 1, 1961 on the Keihin-Tōhoku Line. The Musashino Line platforms opened on April 1, 1973 when passenger services on the line started. A widely reported incident occurred at the station about 9:15 a.m. on July 22, 2013, when a woman fell into the gap between a train and the edge of the platform. About 40 bystanders helped station staff push against the side of the train so that the woman could be safely extricated. A member of the station staff began pushing the train after the woman fell into the gap and bystanders quickly joined in to help with the rescue effort. The woman was not seriously injured.

## Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 60,144 passengers daily (boarding passengers only). The passenger figures for previous years are as shown below.
| Fiscal year | Daily average |
| 2000 | 51,863 |
| 2005 | 55,624 |
| 2010 | 56,804 |
| 2015 | 58,581 |
# Omladinski Stadium

44°48′55.64″N 20°29′38.57″E﻿ / ﻿44.8154556°N 20.4940472°E﻿ / 44.8154556; 20.4940472
Omladinski Stadium (Serbian Cyrillic: Омладински стадион, lit. 'Youth's Stadium') is a multi-purpose stadium in Belgrade, Serbia. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of OFK Beograd. The stadium is capable of taking up to 19,100 people, but has a total of 10,600 seats. As of December 2012, the stadium is in deteriorating condition and can only hold a third of its intended capacity.
It was built by a firm Sportprojekt and its main architect was Karlo Kacl, with his assistants Kosta Popović and Aleksandar Radovanović.
# Ashikagashi Station

Ashikagashi Station (足利市駅, Ashikagashi-eki) is a railway station in the city of Ashikaga, Tochigi, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Tōbu Railway.

## Lines

Ashikagashi Station is served by the Tōbu Isesaki Line, and is located 86.8 km from the line's Tokyo terminus at Asakusa.

## Station layout

The station consists of an elevated island platform serving two tracks.

### Platforms

| 1 | TI Tōbu Isesaki Line | for Tatebayashi, Kuki, Tōbu-Dōbutsu-Kōen, Kasukabe, Kita-Senju, and Asakusa |
| 2 | TI Tōbu Isesaki Line | for Ōta, Isesaki, Shin-Kiryū, and Akagi |

## History

The station first opened on August 27, 1907, as Ashikagamachi Station (足利町駅). It was renamed Ashikagashi Station (足利市駅) on August 25, 1924. The station was rebuilt as an elevated station on July 23, 1980.
From 17 March 2012, station numbering was introduced on all Tōbu lines, with Ashikagashi Station becoming "TI-15".
In July 2015, the station and Ashikaga Station adopted Chisato Moritaka's 1993 song "Watarasebashi" as their train melody, as the song pays homage to the town of Ashikaga.

## Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 6010 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

## Bus services
### South Entrance

There are direct express bus services for Narita Airport, Haneda Airport, Osaka, Kyoto, Nara, Nara, Nagoya, Kanazawa, Toyama, and Sendai.

## Surrounding area

* Ashikaga City Hall
* Ashikaga Post Office
* Ashikaga Red Cross Hospital
* Ashikaga Gakko
* National Route 293
* JR East Ashikaga Station (1 km northeast of the station)
* Orihime Jinja
* Banna-ji
# Ashikaga Station

Ashikaga Station (足利駅, Ashikaga eki) is a railway station in the city of Ashikaga, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It is one of two main railway stations of Ashikaga; the other is Ashikagashi Station of the private railway operator Tobu.

## Lines

Ashikaga Station is served by the Ryōmō Line, and is located 38.2 km (23.7 mi) from the starting point of the line at Oyama, and 53.5 km (33.2 mi) from Takasaki. The preceding station of Ashikaga Flower Park is 6.2 km (3.9 mi) away and the following station of Yamamae is 4.5 km (2.8 mi) away.

## Station layout

Ashikaga Station has two opposed side platforms connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station has many accessibility features such as elevators, Mobility scooter access, wheelchair-accessible bathroom, and a Braille Fare table.

### Platforms

Source:
| 1 | ■ Ryōmō Line | for Sano, Tochigi and Oyama |
| 2 | ■ Ryōmō Line | for Kiryu, Isesaki, Maebashi, and Takasaki |
* North Ticket Gates November 2021
* South Ticket Gate November 2021
* Platforms November 2021

## History

Ashikaga Station opened on 22 May 1888, as a station operated by the Ryomo Railway. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR East.
The station started accepting Suica cards on November 18, 2001. On 25 July 2008, the station building was struck by lightning, which caused damage to the second floor. In July 2015, the station and Ashikagashi Station adopted Chisato Moritaka's 1993 song "Watarasebashi" as their train melody, as the song pays homage to the town of Ashikaga. In February 2021, the pillar-mounted station name sign and the hanging station name sign where replaced with textile pattern designed signs to pay homage to the Ryōmō Line.

## Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2021, the station was used by an average of 2,615 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).
Below is table containing the passenger statistics since the year 2000:
Passenger statistics :
| Year | Average Daily Boarding Passengers | Year | Average Daily Boarding Passengers | Year | Average Daily Boarding Passengers |
| 2000 | 4,189 | 2010 | 3,318 | 2020 | 2,326 |
| 2001 | 4,045 | 2011 | 3,305 | 2021 | 2,615 |
| 2002 | 3,852 | 2012 | 3,373 | | |
| 2003 | 3,773 | 2013 | 3,471 | | |
| 2004 | 3,586 | 2014 | 3,366 | | |
| 2005 | 3,502 | 2015 | 3,386 | | |
| 2006 | 3,417 | 2016 | 3,345 | | |
| 2007 | 3,310 | 2017 | 3,318 | | |
| 2008 | 3,295 | 2018 | 3,314 | | |
| 2009 | 3,267 | 2019 | 3,158 | | |

## Surrounding area

* Ashikagashi Station (Tobu Isesaki Line)
* Ashikaga Gakkō
* Orihime Shrine
* Banna-ji temple
* National Route 293
* Ashikaga City Hall
* Ashikaga Central Post Office
* Watarase River
# Gilles Kahn

Gilles Kahn (17 April 1946 – 9 February 2006) was a French computer scientist. He notably introduced Kahn process networks as a model for parallel processing and natural semantics for describing the operational semantics of programming languages.
Gilles Kahn was born in Paris. He studied at the École polytechnique (X1964) and at Stanford. He became a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1997. He was president and director-general of INRIA from 2004 to 2006. He died in Garches.
# Iltani

Queen Iltani (fl. circa 1750 B.C.), was the wife of the ruler Aqba-hammu. Her archive was discovered in the palace of Karana (modern day Tell al-Rimah). The main group of tablets from the archive consisted of about 200 letters and administrative records, which directly concern the queen.
The letters tell us that Queen Iltani worked hard at running the palace industries, in particular the textiles and food, and had to meet her husband’s frequent, urgent demands for goods and personnel. She had to deal with many letters from individuals asking for help or resources, and she was concerned with her own health, querulous and indignant. Iltani’s work as overseer of the textile business in the palace of Rimah is well documented in the archive. The “department of Iltani,” as the business was called, employed 15 women and 10 men. Iltani was also involved in the metal trade; she personally received copper from her male subordinate.
Belassunu was Iltani's sister.

## Naditu priests named Iltani

There were at least three naditu priestesses named Iltani: the sister of King Hammurabi, the daughter of King Sin-muballit, and the sister of King Ammiditana.
The city and cloister of Sippar are well documented and serve as a microcosm of the lives of women, especially women priests, in the Old Babylonian period. The temple of Shamash was the most prominent building in Sippar. Women were just as active as men in the temple and cloister. Only women could become naditu priests. There were generally about two hundred celibate naditu priests of Shamash living in the cloister at a given time. Most were from royal or upper-class families. Iltani, the naditu sister of King Hammurabi, made offerings of date cakes at festivals. She also leased her orchard for payment of back taxes and leased her field to a scribe. (140)
# Meitetsu Kakamigahara Line

The Meitetsu Kakamigahara Line (名鉄各務原線, Meitetsu Kakamigahara-sen) is a 17.7 km (11.0 mi) railway line in Gifu Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Meitetsu (Nagoya Railroad), connecting Meitetsu-Gifu station in the city of Gifu with Shin-Unuma station in Kakamigahara.

## Stations

● L: Local (普通, futsū) ● E: Express (急行, kyūkō) ● R: Rapid Express (快速急行, kaisoku kyūkō) ● MU: μSKY Limited Express (ミュースカイ, myū sukai)
| Name | Japanese | Distance (km) | L | E | R | MU | Transfers | Location | Location |
| Meitetsu Gifu | 名鉄岐阜 | 0.0 | ● | ● | ● | | ■ Meitetsu Nagoya Line Tōkaidō Main Line, Takayama Main Line (via Gifu) | Gifu | Gifu Prefecture |
| Tagami | 田神 | 1.1 | ● | | | | | | | Gifu | Gifu Prefecture |
| Hosobata | 細畑 | 2.9 | ● | | | | | | | Gifu | Gifu Prefecture |
| Kiridōshi | 切通 | 3.9 | ● | ● | ● | | | Gifu | Gifu Prefecture |
| Tejikara | 手力 | 4.8 | ● | | | | | | | Gifu | Gifu Prefecture |
| Takada-bashi | 高田橋 | 5.4 | ● | | | | | | | Gifu | Gifu Prefecture |
| Shin Kanō | 新加納 | 6.6 | ● | | | | | | | Kakamigahara | Gifu Prefecture |
| Shin Naka | 新那加 | 7.5 | ● | ● | ● | | | Kakamigahara | Gifu Prefecture |
| Shiminkōen-mae | 市民公園 | 8.1 | ● | | | | | | | Kakamigahara | Gifu Prefecture |
| Kakamigahara-shiyakusho-mae | 各務原市役所前 | 8.7 | ● | ● | ● | | | Kakamigahara | Gifu Prefecture |
| Rokken | 六軒 | 9.9 | ● | ● | ● | | | Kakamigahara | Gifu Prefecture |
| Mikakino | 三柿野 | 11.2 | ● | ● | ● | ● | | Kakamigahara | Gifu Prefecture |
| Nijikken | 二十軒 | 12.4 | ● | | | | | | | | Kakamigahara | Gifu Prefecture |
| Meiden Kakamigahara | 名電各務原 | 13.7 | ● | ● | ● | | | Takayama Main Line (via Kagamigahara) | Kakamigahara | Gifu Prefecture |
| Ogase | 苧ヶ瀬 | 14.6 | ● | | | | | | | | Kakamigahara | Gifu Prefecture |
| Haba | 羽場 | 15.5 | ● | | | | | | | | Kakamigahara | Gifu Prefecture |
| Unumajuku | 鵜沼宿 | 16.5 | ● | | | | | | | | Kakamigahara | Gifu Prefecture |
| Shin Unuma | 新鵜沼 | 17.6 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ■ Meitetsu Inuyama Line Takayama Main Line (via Unuma) | Kakamigahara | Gifu Prefecture |

## History

The line was opened between 1926 and 1927 by the Mino Electric Railway, electrified at 600 V DC. The company merged with Meitetsu in 1935. The Gifu to Ogase section was double-tracked between 1938 and 1942, with the Ogase to Shin-Unuma section being double-tracked in 1964, the same year the voltage was increased to 1,500 V DC, enabling the maximum speed on the line to be raised from 65 km/h to 85 km/h.

### Former connecting lines

A 1 km line branched off at Tagami Station, providing a connection to the Gifu Tram network (which was also 1,067 mm gauge) operated between 1970 and 2005 (when the tram system closed). It changed voltage (with a short dead section) to 600 V DC at the Keirinjo-mae end of the line.
# Émilien Lafrance

Émilien Lafrance (September 6, 1911 – October 21, 1977) was a Canadian politician, cabinet minister and a five-term Member of the National Assembly of Quebec.

## Background

Lafrance was born in 1911 in the Quebec town of Danville. He studied at Séminaire Saint-Charles-Borromée in Sherbrooke and Collège Sacré-Cœur in Victoriaville.
He married his wife Géraldine Langlois in Magog in 1942. Together, he and Langlois had five children. In a 2010 interview with Le Devoir, Madame Langlois said that her husband tried to avoid talking politics at home, especially due to their disagreements on Quebec sovereignty.

## Early politics

Lafrance was politically involved long before his first election to the National Assembly. He served as a local organizer for Action libérale nationale in the 1935 election and ran as a member of the Bloc populaire in the riding of Richmond—Wolfe in the 1945 federal election, coming in a distant second to the local Liberal candidate. Between his federal loss in 1945 and his provincial victory in 1952, he served on the school-board in his hometown of Danville, later becoming the chairman.

## Member of the National Assembly

Lafrance was elected to the National Assembly in the 1952 Quebec election as a member for Richmond. As a member of the opposition during Maurice Duplessis' time as Premier, he served as the party's deputy whip, and later its chief whip.
When Jean Lesage led the Liberal Party to victory in the 1960 election, Lafrance became Minister of Social Welfare, and later Minister of Family and Welfare in the Lesage Government.
Lafrance played an interesting role in the politics of marijuana and other drugs in Quebec. During debate on the creation of OPTAT (the Office of Prevention and Treatment of Alcoholism and the other Toxicomanias), Lafrance relied on research of the day to suggest that alcoholism was a disease, rather than a vice, like some of his other colleagues suggested. Additionally, Lafrance suggested that not only was drug use and alcoholism not specifically a problem with school-age children, but was instead indicative of larger social problems within the community.
Lafrance did not run in the 1970 election, and was replaced by Yvon Brochu.

## Later life

After his retirement from the National Assembly, Lafrance continued to be involved in the community, serving on the Asbestos Regional School Board (Commission scolaire de l'Asbesterie) until 1976, and was an active member in the Knights of Columbus, the local chamber of commerce, and the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste.
Lafrance received an honorary doctorate in social sciences from Université de Sherbrooke in 1962.
Émilien Lafrance died on October 21, 1977, near Lac Memphrémagog. He was buried in Danville, in the cemetery of Saint-Anne's Parish.

## Post life Merits and honours

He was inducted into the Danville select club, 3rd edit, on October 20, 2016.
# 2020–21 LR Vicenza season

In the 2020–21 season, LR Vicenza (until 9 February 2021 was named LR Vicenza Virtus) returned to Serie B after spending three seasons in the third division.

## Transfers
### In

| Pos. | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| FW | Gabriele Gori | Fiorentina | Loan | 1 September 2020 |
| DF | Mario Ierardi | Südtirol | | 1 September 2020 |
| FW | Lamin Jallow | Salernitana | | 30 September 2020 |
| FW | Samuele Longo | Internazionale | | 5 October 2020 |
| DF | Nahuel Valentini | Padova | Loan | 21 January 2021 |
| FW | Davide Lanzafame | Adana Demirspor | Free | 1 February 2021 |

### Out

| Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date | Source |
| FW | Simone Guerra | Feralpisalò | Free | 13 January 2021 | |
| FW | Alessandro Marotta | Juve Stabia | Free | 1 February 2021 | |

## Competitions
### Overall record

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Serie B | 26 September 2020 | 10 May 2021 | Matchday 1 | 12th | 38 | 11 | 15 | 12 | 48 | 53 | −5 | 028.95 |
| Coppa Italia | 30 September 2020 | 28 October 2020 | Second round | Third round | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 050.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 40 | 12 | 15 | 13 | 52 | 58 | −6 | 030.00 |
Source: Competitions

### Serie B
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 10 | Frosinone | 38 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 38 | 42 | −4 | 50 |
| 11 | Reggina | 38 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 42 | 45 | −3 | 50 |
| 12 | Vicenza | 38 | 11 | 15 | 12 | 48 | 53 | −5 | 48 |
| 13 | Cremonese | 38 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 46 | 44 | +2 | 48 |
| 14 | Pisa | 38 | 11 | 15 | 12 | 54 | 59 | −5 | 48 |
* 1 2 Frosinone finished ahead of Reggina on head-to-head points: Frosinone 1–1 Reggina, Reggina 0–4 Frosinone.
* 1 2 3 Head-to-head points: Vicenza 8, Cremonese 4, Pisa 3.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source:

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 |
| Ground | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | L | D | D | D | L | D | W | D | D | D | W | L | W | D | L | L | W | D | L | D | W | L | D | D | D | W | W | L | D | W | W | L | L | L | W | L | D | W |
| Position | 19 | 19 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 17 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 11 | 14 | 13 | 12 |
# Yevheniy Smyrnyi

Yevheniy Serhiyovych Smyrnyi (Ukrainian: Євген Сергійович Смирний; born 18 August 1998) is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Oleksandriya.

## Career

Smyrnyi is a product of the Dynamo Kyiv sportive school. His first trainers was Vitaliy Khmelnytskyi.
He made his debut in the Ukrainian Premier League for Dynamo on 26 September 2018, playing in a match against FC Mariupol.
On 21 February 2019, Smyrnyi made his continental debut, when came on as a stoppage-time substitute in Dynamo Kyiv's 1-0 UEFA Europa League victory over Olympiacos F.C. at NSC "Olimpiyskiy".

### Chornomorets Odesa

In July 2021 he moved on loan to Chornomorets Odesa. On 25 July 2021 he made his league debut in the losing away match against Desna Chernihiv at the Chernihiv Stadium.

## Career statistics

    As of the end of 2018-19 season
| Club | Season | League | League | League | Cup | Cup | Continental | Continental | Other | Other | Total | Total |
| Club | Season | Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Dynamo Kyiv | 2017–18 | Ukrainian Premier League | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Dynamo Kyiv | 2018–19 | Ukrainian Premier League | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Dynamo Kyiv | Total | Total | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
* ↑ Appearance(s) in UEFA Europa League
# GAZ-53

The GAZ-53 is a 3.5 tonne 4x2 truck produced by GAZ between 1961 and 1993. Introduced first as GAZ-53F, it was joined by the virtually identical 2.5-ton GAZ-52 in 1962, which was produced until 1989.
The GAZ-52 and GAZ-53 trucks are distinguished by different lighting systems, wheel rims and tonnage (payload): the GAZ-52 was able to carry up to 2.5 tonnes of cargo, whereas the GAZ-53A could carry up to 4 tonnes. From 1961 to 1975 the new truck range was produced along with its predecessor, the GAZ-51.
Given the long production run of GAZ-52/53 and their variants, the series is a common sight in Eastern Europe. They should not be mistaken for the broadly similar 5-6 ton ZIL-130, which is also usually painted light blue with a white grille. The GAZ grille is fluted vertically, and the direction indicators are typically located above the headlamps, with the exception of the introductory GAZ-53F. The ZIL has a horizontally slated grille and its flashers are located below the headlamps.

## History

The main (or basic) variant of GAZ-53 with no suffix letter was released in 1964. It featured the brand-new 4254 cc light-alloy V8 ZMZ-53 engine, which was a modified version of the one used in the GAZ-13 Chaika, with a reduced compression ratio and smaller 2 barrel carburetor. The ZMZ-53 produces 120 hp SAE Gross at 3200 rpm, giving the GAZ-53 a top speed of 90 km/h (56 mph). With the exception of the new cab, V8 engine, and brakes, most other parts of the GAZ-53 and GAZ-52 were taken from the old GAZ-51 truck. These are the chassis, which was extended and reinforced on the GAZ-53, the transmission and axles, alongside some others.
* Evolution of the front of GAZ-52/53
* Initial front with headlights up (until 1964)
* Main front with headlights below (1964-1984)
* Final simplified front with square grille (1985-1993)
Early versions, called GAZ-53F, were powered by an old 75-hp (SAE Gross) six-cylinder engine from the GAZ-51 truck; but since 1964, the GAZ-53 was equipped with a 4.3L ZMZ-53 V8 engine. Payload was increased to 4 tons in the 1965 model, called GAZ-53A. The GAZ-53A was built until January 1983, when the GAZ-53-12 took over until production ended. All variants use a four-speed gearbox, synchronized on third and fourth. A number of other sub-versions were also introduced, including the military version GAZ-53A-016.
In total, over 4 million GAZ-53 were built, making it the most produced truck of the Soviet Union.

## Bulgaria

The GAZ-53A was also license-built by KTA Madara in Shumen, Bulgaria, beginning in 1967. They were called the Madara 400 series (the "4" representing its four-tonne payload). Beginning in the 1970s, the Bulgarian-built trucks were fitted with locally built four-cylinder 3.9 liter Perkins diesel (later also turbodiesel) engines, made by the Vasil Kolarov engine plant in Varna. These engines had either 80 or 100 PS (59 or 74 kW). Madara built about 3,000 trucks per year throughout the 1980s, which met the needs of the local market.
# Ala Talabani

Ala Talabani (Kurdish: ئاڵا تاڵەبانی) is a Kurdish politician and former head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan bloc in the Iraqi parliament. She is a three-time member of the Council of Representatives of Iraq.

## Early life and education

Ala Tahseen Talabani was born in the Kurdish Iraqi city of Kirkuk. She graduated from Palestine high school for girls. She is one of the nieces of former President of Iraq, Jalal Talabani.

## Career

In 1986, Talabani became a member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). She was kept in custody for two days and lost her teaching and engineering jobs for being an ethnic Kurd and refusing to join the Ba'ath Party. She left Iraq for the UK in 1991 following Saddam Hussein's anti-Kurdish policies. Here she was a member of a delegation which met the British prime minister Tony Blair.
After the fall of Saddam Hussein, she returned to Iraq. With Zainab Al-Suwaij, Talabani established a group called the Kurdish Women's Union (later known as Women for a Free Iraq) and is also a co-founder of the High Council for Iraqi Women.
Talabani opposed the Resolution 137 of the Iraqi Interim Governing Council, which if passed would have eroded the rights of women in Iraq.

## Political Life

Talabani was one of the members of the Kurdistan Alliance (KA) elected to the Iraqi Transition National Assembly in January 2005. The same year, she entered the Council of Representatives of Iraq and retained her membership following the 2010 Iraqi parliamentary election. In 2014, she became the only woman from Kirkuk Province to win the 2014 parliamentary elections by a popular vote. She is the leader of PUK in the Council of Representatives.