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Hong Kong to allow airlines to keep airport slots despite cutting capacity

Airlines that fly to and from Hong Kong will be able to keep their prized airport slots even if they temporarily cut capacity due to weak travel demand through March, according to the Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department. Many airlines, including flags…

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Family: 3 kids in car when estranged husband kills mother

A woman who was fatally shot by her estranged husband as she sat in an elementary school parking lot in a minivan with her mother and her three young children, the woman’s family said in a post on a fundraising website. Tiffany Hill was killed Tuesday…

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Vancouver approves ban on plastic straws, bags from next year

Vancouver voted late on Wednesday to ban the use of plastic straws and bags from April next year, making it the first major Canadian city to enact such a wide-reaching ban, according to the city. The move, aimed at reducing the use of plastic bags and…

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Reuters Health News Summary

Militia fighters in eastern Congo killed four people and injured several others in attacks on two Ebola response centers on Thursday, in what responders described as a serious setback to efforts to contain the epidemic. Violence and unrest have hamper…

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Reuters Health News Summary

Militia fighters in eastern Congo killed four people and injured several others in attacks on two Ebola response centers on Thursday, in what responders described as a serious setback to efforts to contain the epidemic. Violence and unrest have hamper…

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Reuters People News Summary

William Ruckelshaus, picked by Richard Nixon as the first head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and as deputy attorney general before being fired for defying the president in the Watergate scandal, died on Wednesday at the age of 87, U.S. me…

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Peru signs measure to speed up $29 bln infrastructure spending

Peru will cut red tape on $29 billion in infrastructure spending aimed at reviving public investment and stimulating the economy, the economy ministry said in a statement on Thursday. The measure is aimed at speeding up construction on 52 “large-scale…

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UPDATE 1-Rescuers find dead mother and three children in Albanian house as quake toll hits 46

Search teams pulled the bodies of a mother, her two-year-old twins and seven-year-old son from the rubble of a house in the western Albanian town of Durres on Thursday, as the death toll from the country’s worst ever quake climbed to 46. European and …

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Ilhan Omar's Republican opponent banned from Twitter over 'hanging' post

* Danielle Stella post featured ‘stick figure hanging from gallows’ * Republican aiming to unseat Omar charged with felony theftIlhan Omar introduces Bernie Sanders at a rally in Minneapolis earlier this month. Photograph: Evan Frost/APDanielle Stella…

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UPDATE 1-UK's Johnson replaced by ice block in TV debate, Conservatives cry foul

British broadcaster Channel 4 represented Prime Minister Boris Johnson with a block of melting ice in a prime-time election debate on the environment on Thursday, prompting his Conservative Party to complain this broke impartiality rules. The commerci…

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Transgender paedophile sues NHS for refusing her reassignment surgery while she serves prison sentence

Transgender paedophile sues NHS for refusing her reassignment surgery while she serves prison sentenceA transgender paedophile has sued the NHS for refusing her reassignment surgery after she transitioned from male to female while in prison.  The 60-year-old, known only as KK for legal reasons, is serving an indefinite sentence for public protection for making indecent photographs of children, and also has a previous conviction for sexual activity with a young girl. She has been in prison for over a decade and has been living as a woman for the last eight years, The High Court heard.  The prisoner claims the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust has unlawfully adopted a “de facto policy” of refusing to refer serving prisoners with gender dysphoria for gender reassignment surgery (GRS). But the trust argues that the reason KK was not referred was because “the treating clinicians at a world-class clinic for gender dysphoria did not consider it clinically appropriate to refer her for surgery”. In brief | Transgender prisoners policy On Thursday, KK’s barrister David Lock QC told a judge in London that the refusal to refer his client was “solely based on the fact that the claimant has lived as a woman in prison for the last eight years as opposed to living outside of prison”. He submitted that the trust refused to make the referral over “concerns that there was a possibility that the claimant may not wish to continue to live as a woman following her release from prison”. Mr Lock concluded that KK “was forced to endure her present level of distress by being denied otherwise clinically appropriate medical treatment because of the minority chance that she would later express regret at having had GRS”. In written submissions, Jenni Richards QC, for the trust, argued that the court should not interfere in a decision involving “the application of clinical expertise in a developing area of medical practice”. She said the number of patients affected by gender dysphoria was relatively small, adding: “The number of patients affected who are in prison is smaller still.  “The number of prisoners who are imprisoned as a result of sexual offences, which further complicates the clinical picture, will be still smaller.” Ms Richards said GRS is “major, irreversible surgery which may destroy existing parts of a patient’s body, personality and sexuality”. She argued that “the fact that the claimant’s real life experience (as a woman) has been acquired in prison … is relevant to the determination of whether surgery is an appropriate intervention for her, at this stage and in her present circumstances”. Mr Justice Supperstone, who is hearing the case, is expected to reserve his judgment.

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