However, the legislation will not be enforced during the general election due in May 2024.

The announcement comes eight months before general elections are due by May 2024.

The number of children in Japan has been falling for more than four decades as the appetite for marriage and parenting has waned and financial worries have grown, surveys show.

The videos on social media purport to show two women paraded naked and assaulted on a street before what townspeople on the videos say was a gang rape.

Kahmani Murugan believes in the importance of chasing dreams, no matter what others may say.

Kahmani Murugan follows in her father's footsteps, navigating the giant vehicles with skill and patience.

The methods combine use of security cameras with denial of state services to violators, replacing the morality police whose actions were the flashpoint for the months of unrest.

Since ousting a foreign-backed government in August 2021, the Taliban authorities have imposed an austere sharia law that the UN has labelled 'gender-based apartheid'.

It also cites mischievousness and mass hysteria among students.

The comments at a regional summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan come after a decision by the conservative Taliban authorities to bar women from working for the United Nations sparked international outrage.

They say those who remove their hijab in public places 'will be warned first and presented to the courts as a next step'.

Taliban officials have closed girls' highschools, barred their access to universities and stopped most women from working at non-governmental organisations.