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Labour MP Stella Creasy has accused the government of preparing to hand back control of abortion rights to Stormont to help curry favour with the DUP at a
critical moment in the Brexit talks.
Anti-abortion campaigners are working to obstruct the liberalisation of Northern Ireland's abortion laws, which will go ahead from Monday if the Stormont
assembly is not restored.
The lead protester in the row over LGBT-inclusive teaching has been accused of "inflaming tensions" by inviting a controversial imam who claimed anal sex,
paedophilia and transgenderism were being taught in schools to a demonstration.
Increasingly popular vaginal cosmetic surgery and genital piercing should in most cases not be prosecuted as female genital mutilation, according to fresh
guidance issued by the Crown Prosecution Service.
The prime minister has said the government will "stand up for religious freedom in all our doings and in all our foreign policy" in response to a question in
parliament.
Polish lawmakers have voted in favour of a bill to criminalise "the promotion of underage sexual activity". Liberals say the bill aims to ban sex education.
The French government has said it will not seek to ban Muslim women who wear headscarves from volunteering to help on school trips amid an escalating row.
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