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Argentina Rejects Bill to Ease Abortion Law
Pro-life and pro-choice campaigners had gathered outside parliament to hear the result. Daiana Anadon, leader of the feminist group Wave, said she and hundreds of other women would stay "until the final moment because we believe the power of the street will move the situation". [Full Article...]
Airstrike on children's bus in Yemen kills at least 20
Johannes Bruwer, head of delegation for the ICRC in Yemen, said: "Scores killed, even more injured, most under the age of ten". Errant strikes have killed hundreds of civilians at hospitals, schools and markets. The UN children's agency UNICEF said it was " very concerned with the initial reports of children being killed " with UNICEF's resident representative in Yemen, Meritxell Relano saying t... [Full Article...]
Another strong quake hits Indonesia's Lombok
According to Indonesia's geological agency, Thursday's quake had a magnitude of 6.2 and was shallow, striking at a depth of just 12 kilometres. It did not have the potential to cause a tsunami, the agency added. Some villages have collapsed entirely. Authorities are still searching through the rubble left behind on Lombok Island, still hoping to find survivors. [Full Article...]
Damascus says First Lady Asma al-Assad being treated for breast cancer
In her first comments about the bloodshed in Syria , Asma al-Assad said in 2012: "The President is the President of Syria, not a faction of Syrians, and the First Lady supports him in that role". In a video in 2012, the British and German ambassadors to the United Nations appealed to her to speak out against the violence. In 2011, Mrs al-Assad was controversially described as a "rose in the des... [Full Article...]
Burqa Comments Not Racist, Garb Should Be Banned
Conservative Party chairman Brandon Lewis said in a tweet that he had asked Johnson to apologize. "If you say that it is weird and bullying to expect women to cover their faces, then I totally agree - and I would add that I can find no scriptural authority for the practice in the Koran". [Full Article...]
Apple removes most of Alex Jones's podcasts from iTunes
Now Facebook has unpublished the pages for glorifying violence and "using dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender, Muslims and immigrants, which violates our hate speech policies", the company said . "When users violate. policies repeatedly, like our policies against hate speech and harassment or our terms prohibiting circumvention of our enforcement measures, we terminat... [Full Article...]
Rick Gates says he and Manafort disguised foreign income as loans
Regarding a trading company Manafort had started with a partner in 2011, he asked with deep scepticism: "You're asking the jury to believe Mr Manafort authorised another US$250,000 as a bonus?" Under questioning, Gates said he may have submitted personal expenses for reimbursement by Trump's inaugural committee, which he helped operate. [Full Article...]
Death toll in Indonesia quake rises to 164
Cleanup and rescue efforts are still continuing on the island, following the previous quakes. Aftershocks have also continued to rattle the area - there have been more than 340 since Sunday. A man inspects the ruins of houses at a village affected by Sunday's quake in Kayangan, Lombok Island, Indonesia. Thousands of people have been sleeping in makeshift shelters or out in the open. [Full Article...]