DUBLIN Cheap Gianluca Lapadula Jersey , Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- Ireland will hold a referendum on its abortion laws by the end of May, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar announced here Monday night.

The announcement came at a press conference after a cabinet meeting had formally approved a referendum on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, which virtually forbids abortions in the country.

Varadkar said the referendum will ask citizens whether they want to retain the amendment or enable the Dail, the lower house of the Irish parliament, to make a new law that will allow abortion in hospitals up to 12 weeks of pregnancy.

The Eighth Amendment recognizes the equal right to the life of the mother and the fetus. It was signed into law one month after a referendum in September 1983 with nearly 67 percent voting against abortions.

If the referendum is in favor of pro-abortion laws, Varadkar said Health Minister Simon Harris has been asked to draft a bill that will be introduced in the Oireachtas Cheap Giacomo Bonaventura Jersey , the Irish legislature.

The legislation will be drafted in line with recommendations made last month by the all-party Oireachtas committee, which proposed the repeal of the Eighth Amendment and permission for termination of pregnancy up to 12 weeks.

"We have abortion in Ireland, but it is unsafe, unregulated and unlawful, and in my opinion we cannot export our problems and import our solutions," Varadkar said.

Abortion in Ireland is illegal unless performed to save the life of the mother. Many Irish women travel to other countries for abortion or source abortion pills from abroad online.

According to Harris Cheap Gerard Deulofeu Jersey , at least 170,000 Irish women traveled to other countries, mostly to Britain, for abortion since 1980.

In recent times, however, an increasing number of people have been supporting a more liberalized abortion law.

WUHAN Cheap Gabriel Paletta Jersey , Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- China's Three Gorges Reservoir raised its discharge volume starting Monday to increase the power supply to downstream provinces.

At 2 p.m. Tuesday, the reservoir's storage flow was recorded at 8,100 cubic meters per second, while outbound flow was 8,110 cubic meters per second, according to the Yangtze River Water Resources Committee.

The daily average outbound flow has increased to 9 Cheap Gabriel Jersey ,520 cubic meters per second.

Due to continuous cold weather, central China's Hubei Province, east China's Anhui Province and Jiangxi Province have experienced power shortages.

The Yangtze river flood control office asked the Three Gorges Reservoir to increase its discharge volume starting Monday to ensure the power supply of the downstream provinces.

The increased outbound flow will be maintained through February 3 to 5.

The water storage in the upper reaches of the Three Gorges Reservoir is up 10 percent year on year, according to the Yangtze River Water Resources Committee.

South Korea has hit back rapidly at US tariffs on washing machines and solar panels, filing challenges and demands for compensation at the World Trade Organization.

The WTO published the South Korean complaints yesterday, two days after US President Donald Trump signed the steep tariffs into law. He billed the move as a way to protect American jobs but the solar industry said it would lead to thousands of layoffs and raise consumer prices.

The 30 percent tariff on solar panels was among the first unilateral trade restrictions imposed by the Trump administration as part of a broader protectionist agenda aimed at helping US manufacturers Cheap Franck Kessie Jersey , but which has alarmed Asian trading partners that produce lower cost goods.

South Korea challenged the US tariffs under the WTO’s Safeguard Agreement, leaving open the possibility of a full trade dispute later.

The agreement gives the US 30 days to settle the matter, after which South Korea has a 60-day window to impose trade sanctions, if the US measures break WTO rules. It was not clear if the United States could challenge that assumption.

Seoul is already seeking WTO trade sanctions to retaliate for Washington’s failure to comply with an earlier WTO ruling.

On Wednesday US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross brushed off the threat of South Korea going to the WTO.

“The fact that they may get a favorable decision (at the WTO) doesn’ mean that it’s a correct decision,” he said. “But in any event there’s been no decision yet so it’s a little bit too early to assume that the safeguards will be knocked out.”

No country has ever negotiated a settlement under the WTO safeguard rules, and it was not clear if they could provide a quicker result than a full dispute Cheap Fabio Borini Jersey , which could take three years or more, giving US manufacturers a long period of protection from competition by their South Korean rivals.

Under WTO rules, a country can impose safeguards — temporary emergency tariffs — to shield its domestic industry from an sudden, unforeseen and damaging surge in imports.

Ricardo Melndez-Ortiz, head of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, said the solar tariffs would fail to boost US solar manufacturing and would destroy US jobs while impeding the fight against climate change.

“These tariffs are insufficient to really generate enough stimulus to create the manufacturing capacity that they are trying to stimulate Cheap Davide Calabria Jersey ,” he said.

“It’s just going to slow down the production of sustainable energy and solar in the US, in a big way.”

(Agencies)

A ticket booth for sightseeing boats is partly submerged by the River Seine after days of almost non-stop rain caused flooding in the country, in Paris, France January 27, 2018.

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