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IRELAND

The Great Pink Run which took place in Dublin’s Phoenix Park today raising over €600,000 to support Breast Cancer Ireland’s pioneering research and awareness programmes. Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

• Fianna Fáil TD Timmy Dooley has said a fellow party member cast a number of votes for him while he was absent from the Dáil chamber on Thursday. 
• President Michael D Higgins and Minister for Defence Paul Kehoe have been evacuated from their hotel in Beirut due to “security concerns” associated with ongoing protests in the city. 
• Police in Nothern Ireland investigating a paramilitary-style shooting in Co Antrim last night believe the victim had been ordered to attend the location to be shot.
• The Government must press ahead with capping the level of insurance payouts for personal injury claims, according to ISME boss Neil McDonnell. 
• A man has been jailed for eight years for the repeated sexual abuse and rape of his younger brother.
• Gardaí in Galway are seeking the public’s assistance in tracing the whereabouts of a 23-year-old man who is missing from Clifden.

WORLD 

Tens of thousand of of second referendum supporters converged on the UK parliament in London asking for a vote on Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal. Matt Crossick / Matt Crossick/Empics Entertainment Matt Crossick / Matt Crossick/Empics Entertainment / Matt Crossick/Empics Entertainment

#LETWIN AMENDMENT: MPs in the House of Commons have voted to force Prime Minister Boris Johnson to seek a further Brexit extension from the EU, throwing his plans to pass a Meaningful Vote on his new deal today and leave by 31 October into disarray. 

#TULSI GABBARD: A US Congresswoman who is seeking the Democratic nomination in the 2020 presidential election has hit back after Hillary Clinton appeared to call her “the favourite of the Russians”.

#SAFE ZONE:  President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned that Turkey will “crush the heads” of Kurdish forces if they do not withdraw from a proposed safe zone along the border under a US-brokered deal.

PARTING SHOT 

Over the summer MPs in Westminster voted for an amendment that would extend same-sex marriage and abortion to Northern Ireland unless power-sharing is restored by 21 October 2019.

With that date falling in just a few days’ time, for this week’s podcast we wanted to ask: What does all this mean? Does the amendment have wider implications for how laws are made for NI? And how would the laws be implemented?
https://soundcloud.com/the-explainer-podcast/what-are-northern-irelands-abortion-laws-and-how-might-they-be-changing/s-LpKj2