repatriation
on negligence on the part of the Nigerian authorities.
The ordeals of a Chinese woman forced to have an
abortion
seven months into her pregnancy has taken a new turn with the disappearance of her husband. News of the abortion prompted a public outcry inside China and abroad. Now, relatives say that her husband has been forced into hiding.
A German district court has ruled that it is an offense to
circumcise
young boys for non-medical reasons. The court said that circumcision contravene the interest of the child to decide on his religious beliefs later in life. The decision has angered Muslim and Jewish groups, for whom circumcision is a religious obligation. Steve Evans reports from Berlin.
Every year, thousands of young Muslim and Jewish boys are circumcised in Germany as part of the religious ritual of both faiths. But prosecutors in Cologne brought criminal charges against the doctor who performed the procedure on a 4-year-old. Initially, the doctor was cleared of causing
grievous
bodily harm, because he'd acted with the consent of the parents. But a higher court has now overturned that decision, because as the judgment put it, the fundamental right of the child of bodily integrity outweighed the fundamental rights of the parents.
The Mexican Navy says it's searching for one of its helicopters which disappeared four days ago over an area where drug cartels are active. The navy said air traffic controllers had lost contact with the helicopter with four crew on board as it was travelling in the west of Mexico.