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• Venezuela opposition braces for challenging election after leader's jailing

  12-09-2015 17:37
  
  Often fractious opposition has been leading in opinion polls, but it must shift its focus to the plight of the average citizen if it wants to win, expert saysThe conviction and harsh sentencing of one of Venezuela’s top anti-government leaders has brought widespread criticism domestically and abroad for what has been condemned as a politically motivated ruling, while opposition parties plot how to channel the indignation into electoral victory. Related: Venezuela opposition denounces 'anti
  
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• Fertility industry errors created doubt over parental status of sperm donor couples

  12-09-2015 12:09
  
  Judge criticises regulator as couples who used sperm donors win right to be called legal parents of their own offspringCouples who used sperm donors to conceive have had their parental status called into question after “widespread incompetence” in the sector was revealed in court.Handing down a ruling in the family division of the High Court, where seven couples were battling to establish a legal declaration that they were the legal parents of their offspring, judge Sir James Munby s
  
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• Indian forces in Kashmir accused of human rights abuses cover-up

  12-09-2015 04:00
  
  Rights groups say 150 top officers among Indian security forces accused of killings, abductions, torture and sexual violence in disputed regionTwo human rights groups have accused the Indian government of an “institutional cover-up” to avoid punishing dozens of high-ranking military and police officials implicated killings, disappearances, torture and sexual violence in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.A report by the International Peoples’ Tribunal on Human Rights and
  
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