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| UN aviation agency approves airline climate deal despite dissent | |  The world's first aviation pollution agreement was approved by the United Nations agency that oversees the industry on Thursday after six years of negotiations, despite objections from India and Russia. The International Civil Aviation Organization's global carbon offseting system is expected to slow the growth of emissions from commercial flights, costing airlines less than 2 percent of revenues. An assembly of ICAO's 191 member states met and approved the deal, which will apply to international passenger and cargo flights, and business jets that generate more than 10,000 tonnes of emissions annually.
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| Pakistan parliament passes legislation against "honour killings" | |  A joint session of the lower and upper houses of parliament, broadcast live on television, approved the new anti-honour killing law, removing a loophole in existing law that allows killers to walk free after being pardoned by family members. "Laws are supposed to guide better behaviour, not allow destructive behaviour to continue with impunity," said former senator Sughra Imam, who initially put forward the bill. Some 500 women are killed each year in Pakistan at the hands of family members over perceived damage to "honour" that can involve eloping, fraternising with men or any other infraction against conservative values relating to women.
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| 'Motorbike bomb' blast in Istanbul wounds 10 - governor | |  A bomb attached to a motorbike exploded near a police station in southwest Istanbul on Thursday wounding 10 people, the provincial governor said. Governor Vasip Sahin said all of the wounded were civilians and that investigations into who might be reponsible were ongoing. The last blast in Istanbul was in June, a month before an attempted coup to overthrow President Tayyip Erdogan's government, when 45 people were killed in a triple suicide bombing at the airport.
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| Senior member of Britain's UKIP in hospital after "altercation" at party meeting | |  By Gilbert Reilhac and Michael Holden STRASBOURG/LONDON (Reuters) - Steven Woolfe, a leading candidate to be the new leader of Britain's anti-EU UK Independence Party, was in hospital after suffering "epileptic-like" seizures on Thursday following an "altercation" at a heated European Parliament meeting on the party's future. The incident took place at a meeting of UKIP's European Parliament lawmakers, or MEPs, held to discuss what direction the party, riven by factional infighting since Britons voted to leave the European Union in June, should take. Brexit has shaken all parties across the British political spectrum, leading to Conservative Theresa May replacing David Cameron as prime minister, a leadership election in the opposition Labour Party and deep division in UKIP as to its purpose now it has achieved its number one goal of securing EU withdrawal.
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| Polish parliament rejects near-total abortion ban after protests | |  By Pawel Sobczak and Marcin Goettig WARSAW (Reuters) - Following protests by tens of thousands of women, Polish lawmakers on Thursday rejected plans for a near-total ban on abortion, in a hastily arranged vote that marks the first major domestic setback for the conservative government. The ruling Law and Justice party (PIS) unexpectedly withdrew its support for draft proposals drawn up by an independent anti-abortion campaign group after an unscheduled parliamentary committee meeting late on Wednesday. "PiS continues to back the protection of life," party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, a devout Catholic, told parliament.
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| France plans prison expansion to tackle overcrowding and Islamist radicalisation | |  By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - France unveiled plans on Thursday to build 33 new jails and renovate older ones in a bid to ease chronic overcrowding that justice officials say breeds conditions for Islamist radicalisation of prisoners. France's prisons rank third in Europe for overcrowding according to the International Centre for Prison Studies, with official figures showing there are 68,253 people incarcerated but places for only 58,587. A further estimated 1,400 members of the prison population have been won over to fight for radical causes by Islamist militant recruiters.
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