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BBC News with John Jason President Obama said the suspicious packages that triggered security alerts in the United States, Britain and Dubai did apparently contain explosive material. The president told a news conference the packages came from Yemen on freight planes bound for the US and were addressed to Jewish places of worship in Chicago. The US counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan said theyd now been made inert and were no longer dangerous. President Obama said the US would work closely with Yemen to disrupt extremist activities. We will continue to strengthen our cooperation with the Yemeni government to disrupt plotting by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and to destroy this al-Qaeda affiliate. We will also continue our efforts to strengthen a more stable, secure and prosperous Yemen so that terrorist groups do not have the time and space they need to plan attacks from within its borders. Delegates from nearly 200 countries have adopted a plan aimed at protecting threatened species of plants and animals around the world. The deal was reached at the end of a United Nations conference on biodiversity in the Japanese city of Nagoya. The 10-year plan includes a promise of billions of dollars to aid conservation in poorer regions. The targets are weaker than many scientists wanted, but the European Unions chief negotiator at the conference, Karl Falkenberg, told the BBC it was a significant agreement. It was a roller coaster. But its that much more satisfactory to have achieved this, and it is a big result. It really is big for environment, big for the UN, big for Japan, big for Europe. Great night. French trade unions say workers at all 12 oil refineries have now voted to end their strike against raising the state retirement age. The strike, which began more than two weeks ago, was part of a wider campaign of industrial action against the governments pension reforms. From Paris, our correspondent Christian Fraser reports. For 33 days, the hard-line unions of Ma