James Comey testimony: Trump asked me to let Flynn investigation go
Updated 0554 GMT (1354 HKT) June 8, 2017
Fired FBI Director James Comey aimed a dagger blow at Donald Trump Wednesday, saying the President had demanded his loyalty, pressed him to drop a probe into ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn and repeatedly pressured him to publicly declare that he was not under investigation.
Comey magnified the political crisis engulfing the White House by releasing his opening statement ahead of a blockbuster appearance on Capitol Hill on Thursday. The dramatic document sketched a stunningly detailed account of Comey's intimate meetings with the President, included direct quotes from Trump and revealed the former FBI chief's discomfort with the President's behavior.
The testimony appeared to bolster the case of Trump critics who believe that the President may have obstructed justice and abused his power in his dealings with Comey, who he later fired.
General election 2017: Voters to go to the polls
Voting in the UK general election is under way at more than 40,000 polling stations across the country.
Polls opened at 07:00 BST on Thursday, with counting starting once voting ends at 22:00 BST.
A total of 650 Westminster MPs will be elected, with about 46.9 million people registered to vote.
That is up from the last general election, in 2015, when there were 46.4 million registered voters.
Some votes have already been cast, through postal voting, which accounted for 16.4% of the total electorate at the 2015 general election. People with an undelivered postal vote can still deliver it by hand to their local polling station.
Overall turnout in 2015, when the Conservatives won 331 out of 650 seats, was 66.4%, up from 2010.
Japan nuclear workers inhale plutonium after bag breaks
Safety and security concerns raised after equipment inspection at research facility just north of Tokyo goes wrong
Five workers at a Japanese nuclear facility have been exposed to high levels of radiation after a bag containing plutonium apparently broke during an equipment inspection.
Contamination was found inside the nostrils of three of the five men, a sign they had inhaled radioactive dust, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) said on Wednesday. All five were also had radioactive material on their limbs after removing protective gear and taking a shower.
Agency spokesman Masataka Tanimoto said one of the men had high levels of plutonium exposure in his lungs. The worker, in his 50s, had opened the lid of the container when some of the 300g of plutonium and uranium in the broken bag flew out.
Filipino Muslim saves 64 Christians from execution by Islamist militants
Norodin Alonto Lucman says the militants would get to them 'over his dead body'
A Muslim man has been hailed as a hero in the Philippines after he hid 64 Christians from Islamist militants hunting them on the Filipino island of Mindanao.
A group of heavily-armed gunmen from the Maute, stormed the city of Marawi on the island last week and have been engaged in fierce fighting with the Filipino army.
The group which also calls itself the Islamic State of Lanao, is reportedly backed by Isis and have been targeting Christians.
The militants had reportedly been planning to set up their own Islamist enclave on the island, officials said after the emergence of a video showing their leaders in a secret strategy meeting.
Teenager protestor dies as political unrest in Venezuela continues
Opposition protests in Venezuela took a deadly turn again Wednesday when a teenager was killed at a march demanding an end to the government's push to rewrite the struggling nation's constitution.
Hours later, the body of a national guardsman was found in a residential neighborhood in eastern Caracas.
Hundreds of national guardsmen and police officers fired tear gas at protesters a day after Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez called for members of the military to refrain from excessive use of force.
Videos circulating on social media showed paramedics trying to resuscitate a lifeless young man as he bled profusely from his chest. The office of the public ombudsman, an agency of the national government, tweeted late Wednesday that an autopsy had determined the youth was struck by a homemade explosive.
Defiant North Korea launches multiple missiles
South Korea's military says the launch appears to be barrage of land-to-ship missiles fired off North's east coast.
North Korea fired what appeared to be multiple land-to-ship missiles off its east coast on Thursday, South Korea's military said.
The projectiles were launched Thursday morning from the North Korean coastal city of Wonsan, South Korea's Office of Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.
The missiles flew about 200km, it said.
Isolated but nuclear-armed, North Korea has test-fired a missile almost every week for the past few weeks.
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