Brexit: UK offer on EU citizens a good start, says Merkel
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has described UK plans to ensure the rights of EU citizens in Britain after Brexit as "a good start".
However, she said there were "many, many other questions" about Brexit and there was "still a lot to do".
The UK proposal was unveiled by Prime Minister Theresa May at an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday.
It would grant EU migrants who had lived in the UK for five years a new "UK settled status".
That would allow them to stay in the country and access health, education and other benefits.
The plan would affect 3.2 million EU citizens now living in the UK.
In China's far west the 'perfect police state' is emerging
During a trip through China’s violence-plagued Xinjiang, the Guardian witnesses dramatic security surge as Communist party fights to ‘pacify’ region
It was Friday, the Islamic day of assembly, but outside Kashgar’s Id Kah mosque on Liberation Avenue it was the growl of diesel engines that filled the air not a muezzin’s wistful cry.
One by one armoured personnel carriers, some with machine guns poking from their turrets, rolled towards People’s Square where a 12-metre statue of Mao Zedong was preparing to preside over the latest in a series of tub-thumping “anti-terror” rallies to be held here in the heartlands of China’s Muslim Uighur minority this year.
Open-backed lorries packed with heavily-armed troops joined the procession, red and yellow propaganda banners draped from their sides.
“Unity and stability are blessings! Separatism and unrest are a curse!” read one.
A second warned: “Let all those terrorists who dare to be enemies of the people be smashed to pieces!”
Isis bans fighters from using social media amid paranoia over spying and dissent
Group cracking down on careless posts while losing territory in Syria and Iraq
Isis has issued a decree banning its fighters from using social media amid rising paranoia over infiltration and tracking by foreign intelligence agencies.
A document from the group’s administrative “Delegated Committee” claimed militants had been killed because of careless online activity, threatening “questioning and accountability” for anyone breaking the prohibition.
“The enemies of the religion have taken various means in order to penetrate the ranks of the muwahhidin [monotheists] and to learn their secrets,” read the notice addressed to “all soldiers of the Islamic State”.
Foreigners discriminated against in German renting market, report finds
What's in a name? A person's chance of landing an apartment lease in Germany, that's what. Discrimination of non-German sounding names is common in the rental housing market, according to media reports.
People with foreign sounding names are discriminated against when they are looking for an apartment in Germany, according to reports published on Thursday.
Investigative reporting done by German public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk and news magazine Der Spiegel found that despite being of similar age and employment status, apartment-seekers with Turkish or Arabic names in 10 German cities were significantly less likely to be contacted by landlords to view a flat than applicants with German names.
A tough time for Ismail
The two media outlets sent over 20,000 fake inquiries to landlords in Germany. They used 14 fake identities - six German, two Arabic, two Turkish, two Polish and two Italian. A dozen of the applicants were aged 26-27 and split male and female, while two of the German ones were a 25-year-old German male student and a 42-year-old German male doctor.
"Why would he fake it?" Oliver Stone on Putin's 'Syria' video
Russia's main TV channel, Perviy Kanal, began airing the first part of The Putin Interviews on June 19, a series of interviews with the Russian president by American filmmaker Oliver Stone. Many Russians tuned in to the series and, in the days since it aired, one scene has come under intense scrutiny. In this scene, Putin praises the recent Russian intervention against the Islamic State group in Syria as footage of Russian airstrikes plays onscreen. But according to several experts, this footage is really old and actually shows American attacks in Afghanistan.
Four-time Oscar winner Oliver Stone conducted numerous interviews with the Russian president over a two-year period. He turned footage from these interviews into a controversial four-part documentary, during which Putin shares his vision of the world and hammers home the Russian position on the Syrian conflict, the crisis in Ukraine, and diplomatic relationships with Europe and the United States.
But one scene in particular in the third part of the documentary seemed questionable to numerous researchers and social media users. In the 49th minute, Putin shows Stone a video on his cell phone and claims that it shows a Russian attack on the IS group in Syria.
One killed as Venezuelan troops fire on protesters
Shooting outside La Carlota airbase in Caracas brings death toll from near-daily unrest to at least 76 since April.
Venezuelan troops on Thursday fired what appeared to be rubber bullets at protesters as they attacked the perimeter of an airbase, killing a demonstrator and bringing the death toll to at least 76 in unrest since April.
At least two soldiers shot long firearms through the fence at protesters from a distance of just a few metres. One man collapsed to the ground and was carried off by other demonstrators, television footage showed. Paramedics took at least two other wounded people to a hospital, a witness told Reuters news agency.
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