World News Update, What you need to know

World News Update, What you need to know

Two men who entered Europe with members of the group that carried out the deadly Paris attacks have been arrested in the Austrian city of Salzburg, posing as refugees, Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung has reported.

ELSEWHERE:

BELFAST - A Belfast judge has ruled that Northern Ireland's government should ease restrictions on abortion because the prevailing law denies women the right to end pregnancies caused by rape or incest.

PARIS - Charlie Hebdo, the satirical newspaper whose staff was decimated by Islamic extremist gunmen and then beset by internal tensions over an unexpected influx of donations and readers, says it will give the money to victims of the three days of attacks in January.

WASHINGTON - A legal fight over drugs used in a series of botched lethal injections contributed to a continued decline in the number of executions in the United States in 2015.

TOKYO - Japan's Supreme Court has upheld a law requiring spouses to use the same surname, the only such law in the big developed nations forming the Group of Seven, rejecting a suit saying this was unconstitutional and violated human rights.

LONDON - Britain's decision to throw out a bid by Donald Trump to stop wind farms being built near his Scottish golf resort reflects the Scottish government's "foolish, small minded and parochial mentality", the US Republican presidential front runner says.

BEIJING - Padded cells to prevent suicide and soft spoons that cannot be made into weapons await officials suspected of corruption in one holding centre in southwestern China, in unusual images of China's graft fight carried by a state-run newspaper this week.


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