Mexico: We will not pay for Trump border wall
Mexico will not pay for Donald Trump's border wall, the country's president has said in a message to the nation.
Enrique Pena Nieto said he "lamented" the plans for the barrier, adding that "Mexico doesn't believe in walls".
But he made no mention of cancelling or postponing a trip to Washington on 31 January to meet the new US president.
Mr Trump has signed an executive order for an "impassable physical barrier" and has insisted Mexico will reimburse the US for it.
Mr Pena Nieto told the nation in a televised address: "I've said time and again; Mexico won't pay for any wall.
Makhado mine: flashpoint for tensions over South Africa's pro-coal policies
A campaign by locals and farming businesses to halt a large opencast mine highlights a far wider conflict over South Africa’s continued addiction to coal
On the horizon are the mountains, verdant rainforest on their well-watered, shaded southern slopes and arid scrub on the dry reverse slopes. Then there is the plain, studded with baobab trees and outcrops. Finally there is the river Limpopo. Beyond is another country: troubled, restive Zimbabwe.
But here in the far north-east of South Africa, there is tension, too. In the Soutpansberg range and on the flat lands beyond, an improbable coalition of local farmers, villagers, big agricultural businessmen and activists are fighting to halt the development of a large opencast mine which, they say, would cause massive harm to the region.
The mine lies 30km north of the small town of Makhado. A South African company hopes it can extract some 5.5m tonnes of coking and heating coal for use locally and for export from a narrow and remote valley. Government officials broadly back the project, which developers argue will bring wealth to both the developing nation and to local people.
World will suffer 'vacuum of leadership' if Trump refugee ban goes ahead, charities warn
Advocates say the expected announcement suspending all refugee arrivals will have a 'global knock-on effect'
Charities have warned of a global "knock-on effect" if Donald Trump goes ahead with a temporary ban on refugees entering the US, as the withdrawal of American leadership on refugee action creates a “vacuum of leadership”.
The President is expected to announce a 120-day ban by way of an executive order later on Thursday in a move that has prompted "extreme alarm" among refugee advocates, who are asking him to reconsider.
Mr Trump is also expected to ban immigration and the issuing of visas for people from seven Muslim-majority Middle Eastern and African countries.
16-year-old sentenced to six years after stabbing German police officer for IS
A court has sentenced a 16-year-old girl to six years in jail for committing an act of terrorism. Investigators called the crime a "martyrdom operation" ordered by the "Islamic State," the first on German soil.
The German regional court in Celle sentenced Safia S. to six years in prison on Thursday on charges of attempted murder, grievous bodily harm, and support for a foreign terrorist organization. The judge cited the teenager's mobile phone chats as proof of her intent to kill on behalf of the "Islamic State" (IS).
The Federal Prosecutors Office sought a six-year jail term for Safia S. The defense team pushed for a ruling on solely on aggravated assault.
According to dpa, the defense has already announced intent to appeal after calling the ruling too severe and the knife attack as exclusively grevious bodily harm without intent to kill.
Kim Jong Un wants to meet Trump, will never give up nukes, says defector
By Paula Hancocks, CNN
The only way to change North Korea's destiny is to change its leader, says the most senior North Korean diplomat to defect in almost 20 years.
Thae Yong Ho was number two in the North Korean embassy in London before he escaped with his wife and two sons, arriving in South Korea in August.
"As long as Kim Jong Un is in power, there'll be no chance for the world to improve the human rights issue" or cancel "the nuclear program," he says.
Thae's initial hopes that Kim's youth and overseas studies would make him a reformer were soon destroyed as he saw more and more of his fellow high-ranking officials being executed, almost, he says, on a whim.
Mosul University after ISIL: Damaged but defiant
Faculty and students of Mosul University, which was recently retaken from ISIL, vow to save its legacy.
Mosul, Iraq - In June 2014, fighters with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) entered Safwan Najah's laboratory at Mosul University and demanded that the biochemist hand over her keys.
The campus, like the rest of Mosul, had come under the control of ISIL fighters, and the group had new plans for its facilities.
More than two-and-a-half years on, Iraqi Security Forces finally drove the last ISIL fighters from the campus in eastern Mosul last week, as part of an ongoing campaign to retake the city. As the fighting continued last Tuesday, Najah, her husband and their five children fled their home in the nearby Shorta district, passing through the campus on their way to safety.
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