World AM News Briefs For Wednesday, 18 April 2017

Good Morning Australia!! - A woman is nearly sucked out of a high-flying passenger plane - Moving to save women's lives in Argentina - The UK admits the "Windrush Generation" has the right to stay - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

US aviation investigators say one person is dead after engine parts crashed into a passenger plane window at 32,000 feet, partially sucking a female passenger out of the window.  Other passengers pulled the woman back in as the pilot put the plane into a rapid descent, 1,000 feet per minute, until levelling out somewhere around 10,000 feet and an eventual emergency landing.
The flight with 148 passengers and crew had been scheduled to go from New York's La Guardia Airport to Dallas, Texas, but put down for an emergency landing at Philadelphia, where firefighters doused a small fire still burning in the port nacelle.
Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board will determine why the port engine on Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 apparently exploded, sending huge chunks of the casing into the plane.  The CFM56 engine from CFM International is widely used in cargo, passenger, and military applications.  The same engine on the same model plane - a Boeing 737-700 - was involved in a similar episode in 2016 in which a fan blade snapped off.  No one was hurt in he earlier incident.

Argentina's legislature is holding its third set of hearings on legalizing women's reproductive rights.  A proposal would legalize abortions up to the 14th week of pregnancy.  Lawmakers are split at about 100 each in the pro-choice and anti-choice columns, with 55 uncommitted lawmakers who will likely decide the issue.  The arguments are the usual "blah blah blah but religion and I'm a self-righteous douche" versus those who support freedom and self-determination and who point out that abortions occur whether they're legal or not - the law would prevent women from dying in unsafe conditions.  "The criminalization of abortion is an extreme form of violence against women," said Amnesty International's secretary general Salil Shetty told Argentine President Maurcio Macri in a meeting last week.  The Argentine Congress will hold its first vote on the issue in June.

China will conduct large-scale, life-fire naval exercises in the straits off Taiwan, amid growing tension about Beijing's territorial ambitions.  The White House has recently moved closer to Taiwan, which China considers to be a rogue province and not a legitimate independent nation.  Beijing bristled as the US passed a law recognizing Taiwan as a "beacon of democracy in Asia", while Chinese President Xi Jinping would like reunification to be part of his legacy.

An investigative team from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) will be allowed to go into Douma, the village in Syria where dozens died in a chemical weapon attack earlier this month.  Russia and Syria finally allowed the inspectors in after repeatedly denying that a chemical weapon attack even took place.  Russian officials have even gone as far as to accuse civilian emergency responders and Britain of staging a "fake" chemical attack.

UK officials say it will take months to clean up after the nerve agent attack on a former Russian double-agent and his daughter.  The two victims were exposed to the military-grade poison "Novichok" left on Sergei Skripal's front door in liquid form on 6 March, and tracked it all over the southern town of Salisbury.  The UK Environment Department said nine sites will require "specialist cleaning", including the Italian restaurant where the Skripals first showed symptoms of being poisoned.  Sergei is still in hospital, daughter Yulia was released but is in hiding.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May apologized to leaders of Caribbean nations and said members of the so-called Windrush Generation have a right to stay in Britain.  But tens of thousands of adults have already been deported; they are the children of immigrants from Commonwealth nations who came to Britain from the end of World War II through the early 1970s.  Many of those victims were older than 50 when they were forced to start new lives in countries they hadn't seen since they were very young children.  Those remaining in the UK have had difficulties getting basic services like health care.  The UK has established a taskforce and helpline to help those people who arrived from the Commonwealth decades ago as children but were now being incorrectly identified as illegal immigrants.