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China is celebrating its first ever Constitution Day.
“So (the) Constitution, is the most important law in the legal system, so to promote the rule of law, we should guarantee the supremacy of the Constitution."
A grand jury has decided not to charge a New York City police officer over the death of Eric Garner.
I'm absolutely committed as president of the United States, to ensure we have a country in which everybody believes in the core principle that we are equal under the law".
Iran has refuted reports that it launched airstrikes against Islamic State
“The news about cooperation of Iran with military forces of the other countries to fight Islamic State are not accurate.”
And Hungary has summoned the U.S. envoy after U.S. Senator John McCain called the Prime Minister a "neo-fascist dictator."
“A nation (Hungary) on the verge of ceding its sovereignty to a neo-fascist dictator, getting in bed with (Russian President) Vladimir Putin, and we're going to send the producer of The Bold and The Beautiful as our ambassador."
Those stories and more over the hour and towards the end of the show we'll be looking at comments online about a 19 year posting about his intention to commit suicide on social media.
Now our global survey of headlines
First up, in Asia,
In Japan, official campaigning has kicked off before the December 14 election which Prime Minister Shinzo Abe describes as a referendum on his "Abenomics" growth plan.
In India, an Indian state has halted mass sterilisations at health camps after a doctor was found using a bicycle pump to inflate women's abdomens.
In Oceania,
In Australia, sailors from the Royal Australian Navy say they have suffered trauma after having to pull dead asylum seekers from the ocean while on border patrol.
Staying in the country, the government has been forced to introduce a new package of university reforms after its initial bill was rejected.
Moving on to Africa,
In Somalia, at least six people have been killed in a car bomb blast next to a UN convoy in capital.
In Libya, the U.S. military is closely monitoring a nascent effort by Islamic State to train a couple of hundred fighters in eastern Libya.
And in the Middle East,
In Israel, political parties have agreed to hold a general election on March 17, two years ahead of schedule.
In Iraq, the Interior Ministry says the woman detained in Lebanon is not the wife of the IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Looking to Latin America,
In Colombia, the government and Farc rebels have agreed to resume peace talks, suspended last month over the abduction of an army general.
In Venezuela, the chief prosecutor has launched an investigation into leading opposition figure Maria Corina Machado over an alleged plot to assassinate the President, Nicolas Maduro.
And in Europe,
A British-Spanish territorial dispute over Gibraltar threatens to block implementation of agreement by EU members to merge national air corridors to create shorter flight paths.
In Ukraine, Energy Minister has said that a "technical fault" in Europe's largest nuclear power plant has cut production but poses no danger.
In Sweden, the Prime Minister has called the country's first snap election for more than half a century after a far-right party helped defeat government's first budget in parliament.
And finally in North America,
In the U.S., President Barack Obama says he doubts Russian President Vladimir Putin will change course until politics catch up with the rough economic situation in Russia.
Staying in the country, an appeals court has halted the execution of a schizophrenic Texas inmate who was due to be put to death on Wednesday.