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South Korea's top court has ruled a 66-year-old ban on abortion is unconstitutional.
Bruce Harrison was outside the constitutional court when the decision was announced.
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Abortion advocates celebrate the ruling.
For hours here they've chanted our bodies our choice.
Not 20 meters away and separated by police, anti-abortion demonstrators yell defiantly they will not accept the decision.
South Korea is one of few developed economies to still criminalize abortion.
But the court ruled the law must change by the end of 2020.
Illegal abortions are common here and women and doctors are rarely prosecuted.
But abortion advocates say the outcome will allow women access to safer procedures.
And it will help, they say, eliminate the social isolation women face for having an abortion.
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One of Russia's biggest foreign investors, who was arrested in February, may be released from jail under house arrest later. US citizen Michael Calvey, the founder of the private equity firm Baring Vostok, will appear in court in Moscow. Lucy Taylor reports.
Fossil bones and teeth found in the Philippines have revealed a previously unknown member of the human family tree. In a study released by the journal Nature, scientists say the newly discovered species likely lived around the time our own species was moving out from Africa to occupy the rest of the world.
Rachel Silverman has details.
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The IMF has begin is Spring meetings in Washington this week with a series of warnings.
An increased risk of global financial instability and major countries requiring fiscal stimulus to combat a global economic slowdown were key findings.
Our correspondent Jagruti Dave has more…
A Paris court has jailed two men for a year for falsely claiming to have been victims of the November 13th 2015 attacks in order to claim compensation.
Over a dozen other people are under criminal investigation for trying to defraud the compensation fund, some three and a half years after the attacks.
Elena Casas reports from Paris.
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A Paris court has jailed two men for a year for falsely claiming to have been victims of the November 13th 2015 attacks in order to claim compensation.
Over a dozen other people are under criminal investigation for trying to defraud the compensation fund, some three and a half years after the attacks.
Elena Casas reports from Paris.
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Wikileaks has announced that it has uncovered an extensive spying operation against its founder Julian Assange, who has been holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy since 2012.
The allegations have not been able to be independently verified.
Julian Assange sought refuge in Ecuador's embassy in London after being wanted in Sweden in relation to sexual assault claims - he fled to the embassy saying the US would then try to extradite him and prosecute him for leaking thousands of secret diplomatic cables.
UK Correspondent Natalie Powell reports.
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The British Prime Minster will head to Brussels today (Wednesday) to seek a further extension of the Brexit deadline.
Speaking in the British Parliament, she told MPs that if they'd have backed her deal, an extension would not have been needed.
The Prime Minister has on three occasions failed to get a majority support in parliament for her Brexit deal, and the UK is facing a cliff-edge exit from the EU bloc on Friday 12th, unless the EU can grant an extension.
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