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BBC News, I’m John Shea.

The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has gained the backing of the House of Commons for a second reading of his Brexit bill. The parliamentary support brings Britain nearer to leaving the EU at the end of January. The Lower Chamber, now dominated by the Conservatives, passed the bill with a large majority.

The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda says she believes war crimes have been committed in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. She wants an investigation launched in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza. She's asked the ICC to confirm that the court has jurisdiction there. Israel says the ICC doesn't.

Cameroon's parliament has granted “special status” to the country's two English-speaking regions. It hopes it will calm a two-year separatist rebellion. The new laws choose to see some decision-making moved to a regional assembly.

Polish MPs have adopted a law making it easier for the government to sack judges. The legislation also allows judges to be fined or demoted for a dissent, and it has been adopted despite a pleaded wait from the European Commission.

Investigators in Moscow say a second employee of the state intelligence agency, the FSB, has died of his wounds after being caught up in a shooting at the agency's headquarters on Thursday. The gunman, identified as Yevgeny Manyurov, a former security guard, opened fire before being shot dead.

And the Bangladeshi who founded the world’s largest non-profit organization has died. Sir Fazle Hasan Abed was 83, and started the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee in 1972.

And that’s the latest BBC world news.