World News: 10 March 2023

UK to push France on efforts to stop boat crossings
Under the UN Refugee Convention, people escaping war or persecution cannot be forced to return there.
The government also cannot return people or send them to a "third" country - like Rwanda - unless they have agreed to take them.
While the government has schemes in place for a limited number of Afghans, Ukrainians and people from Hong Kong, critics point out there is no legal route for asylum seekers from many other dangerous parts of the world.

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Xi Jinping begins historic third term as China's president
Xi, who leads the ruling Communist Party, was also reappointed head of the national Central Military Commission. He was already the head of an identical party body overseeing the People’s Liberation Army.
After the voting, Xi took a constitutional oath, as both the country’s president and head of its military – a symbolic move to show the significance of the constitution after it was revised five years ago to scrap the presidential term limit, include Xi’s political theory and emphasise the party’s leadership of China.

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Croatians flock to Slovenia for grocery shopping after euro introduced
Slovenia joined the eurozone in 2007, but Croatia only joined on 1 January this year, and is having a tough trasition.
Proponents see the adoption of the euro as a means for expanding economic opportunities and making trading smoother and less expensive.
But for average Croatian citizens, it has been a calamity.

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Mexico cartel turns in own men over US kidnappings
Suspected Mexican drug cartel members on Thursday handed over five purported henchmen as a would-be apology for the abduction of four Americans in the border city of Matamoros, according to media and a source familiar with the investigation.
Two of the Americans and a Mexican woman died after gunmen opened fire on the US citizens shortly after their arrival in Matamoros on Friday.
The four Americans were found on Monday on the edge of the city, by which time two of them were dead.

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UN buys huge ship to avert catastrophic oil spill off Yemen
The Oil laden ship poses significant dangers to the lives and livelihoods of 200,000 people on Yemen’s coast. It could break or even explode. If an oil spill were to occur, the communities would come in contact with dangerous toxins, and the air would become polluted, affecting millions of people, flora and fauna.

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Honduras's first woman president legalises morning-after-pill
Honduras is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman, with high rates of child sexual violence, femicide, and violence against women. In 2009, a military coup plunged the country into crisis and reversed the advances made for women’s rights, including the banning of emergency contraception under any circumstance, even in cases of rape and incest.

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