Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up in a northeast Nigerian refugee camp, killing at least 56 people, health and rescue officials said Wednesday. A third woman bomber was arrested and has given officials information about other planned bombings that helped them increase security at the camp, said an official of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency. Some 78 people are being treated for wounds from the twin explosions that occurred Tuesday morning in a camp of some 50,000 people driven from their homes by the Boko Haram Islamic uprising, according to health workers in Maiduguri, the biggest city in northeastern Nigeria. Left-of-center parties in Portugal’s Parliament have used their majority to overturn presidential vetoes on bills that granted adoption rights to same-sex couples and removed some abortion restrictions. The legal changes give gay couples the same adoption rights as heterosexuals and waive mandatory counseling for women seeking an abortion. 3 Torture allegations: A group of human rights organizations in southern Thailand said in a report Wednesday that complaints of torture by security forces have not been addressed by authorities. The Cross Cultural Foundation, the Patani Human Rights Network and the Duay Jai Group looked at 54 cases of alleged psychological and physical torture in Thailand’s deep south, where the government has been battling a Muslim separatist insurgency since 2004. The report describes acts of torture as systematic and says that in spite of complaints and campaigns by victims, relatives and rights organizations, “the state has not taken any significant action to prevent and address torture.” Shopping malls across Venezuela are preparing to dramatically reduce their hours to comply with a government electricity rationing order. Venezuela’s government says that starting Wednesday, more than 100 malls will have to close or generate their own power four hours each day, from 1 p.m.
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