Some other major events of 2020: Iran The year ended as it began with tensions between Iran and the US inflamed by the killing of a top official. On January 3, a US drone strike killed Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Soleimani. Iran responded with a missile attack that injured dozens of US troops in Iraq. In December, a mysterious attack near Tehran killed a nuclear scientist whom the US and others had identified as organising Iran’s effort to seek nuclear weapons two decades ago. Iran blamed that attack on Israel.
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In this photo released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry, military personnel stand near the flag-draped coffin of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a scientist, during a funeral ceremony in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020.
Forging a distinctive path
Ensuring women-centric workplaces
Women “belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception,” iconic US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a feminist and champion of equal rights, famously said in an interview to ABC correspondent Lynn Sherr. “We should not be held back from pursuing our full talents, from contributing what we could contribute to the society, because we fit into a certain mould because we belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination,” said Ginsburg, who passed away some months ago.