Your daily media briefing - Wednesday 23 September
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Parliament's lower house voted in favour of the Law on Animal Protection, which would ban slaughter without pre-stunning. There is an exception for meat
produced for the needs of religious minorities within Poland.
A head teacher has denied suspending a Christian school assistant, who posted her concerns about teaching LGBT relationships to young children, over her
beliefs.
Ofcom had found that four programmes on Peace TV and Peace TV Urdu breached broadcasting rules on incitement to commit crime, hate speech, abuse and offence
after it aired diatribes that described people "worse than animals" and advocated the execution of magicians.
An MP from President Macron's centrist LREM party led a walkout after a student union leader appeared for a parliamentary inquiry hearing wearing a hijab.
The religious right has made no secret of its expectation that President Trump will choose a socially conservative successor to the seat held by Ruth Bader
Ginsburg. And the president will likely deliver, further confirming the power of the religious right, say Lee Epstein and Eric Posner.
An HIV elimination project funded by the US in Kenya that supports male circumcision will now be paying for the circumcision of boys over 15 years only.
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal, Kamal Thapa, has reiterated his demand for the government to abdicate the 'secular' tag and restore the country's
'Hindu identity'.
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Note: Yesterday's media briefing suggested a proposed assisted dying bill had been tabled in Northern Ireland. It was instead tabled in the Republic of
Ireland.
