Qatar flight ban begins as Gulf crisis grows
Egypt is closing its airspace to Qatari planes in a growing diplomatic row, with Saudi Arabia and Bahrain expected to do the same on Tuesday.
Several countries have cut ties with Qatar, accusing it of supporting terrorism in the Gulf region.
Qatari nationals in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have been given two weeks to leave.
Qatar denies backing militants and its foreign minister has called for "a dialogue of openness and honesty".
Egypt said it was closing off its airspace to Qatar from 04:00 GMT on Tuesday "until further notice".
Travel disruption is expected as the airport in Doha, Qatar's capital, is a major hub for international flight connections.
Airlines affected will include Qatar Airways, Etihad Airways and Emirates.
US calls on China to release activists investigating Ivanka Trump brand
The activists were preparing to issue a report accusing factories that make shoes for the daughter of US president of paying below the minimum wage
The US state department has called on China to release three labour activists who were investigating abuses at a factory that makes products for Ivanka Trump’s clothing label, one week after the men disappeared into police custody.
The three activists were preparing to issue a report accusing factories that make shoes for the daughter of US president Donald Trump of a host of violations including paying below China’s legal minimum wage, managers verbally abusing workers and “violations of women’s rights”, according to their NGO China Labor Watch.
But one of the activists, Hua Haifeng, was detained by police on suspicion of “illegal use of monitoring equipment” and two others, Li Zhao and Su Heng, have gone missing and are presumed to be in police custody.London attack: Student nurse tells taxi driver who warned her about terrorists, 'I owe you my life'
'I just want to say thank you, whoever you are, thank you so much,' Rhiannon Owen tells mystery saviour
A student nurse said she owes her life to a taxi driver who swerved to warn her about an approaching assailant during the London Bridge terror attack.
Rhiannon Owen, 19, said she was standing on Borough High Street when a passing cab driver yelled at her to “run now”.
Turning, she saw one of the three attackers wielding a “huge blade” and was able to flee the killer, who along with two accomplices murdered seven people on London Bridge and nearby Borough Market.
Japan's underworld turns to gold for a quick buck
A series of robberies and smuggling cases in southern Japan suggest that the region has become a hotbed of underworld activity surrounding the lucrative gold trade. Julian Ryall reports.
When officials from the Japan Coast Guard boarded a squid fishing boat off Kyushu, southern Japan, on June 1, their suspicions were immediately aroused. The vessel was carrying no fishing equipment but had five Japanese nationals, three men with documents showing them to be Chinese and a number of large - and heavy - plastic cases aboard.When the cases were opened, they revealed 206 bars of gold measuring about 11centimeters long by 5 centimeters wide and 1 centimeter thick. Tests subsequently conducted by customs officials in the town of Moji suggest the gold bullion has had assay marks scraped off, but that it has a high purity and is worth around 1 billion yen (8.05 million euros).
Brazil’s embattled president in court over graft scandal
Brazil's President Michel Temer, already fighting a huge graft scandal, faces a court hearing Tuesday that could see him forced from office, plunging Latin America's biggest country into untested political waters.
Temer has been hanging by a thread since the revelation of a secret audio clip in which he is allegedly heard giving his blessing to payment of hush money by a meatpacking tycoon to a top politician jailed for corruption.
But starting Tuesday, he faces the separate, more immediate challenge of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, known as the TSE.
The TSE is deciding whether abuse of power -- principally the use of corrupt campaign money -- fatally undermined the validity of the 2014 election in which Temer was reelected vice president with then president Dilma Rousseff. When Rousseff was impeached last year, Temer took over.
Mosul: As the battle against ISIS rages on, so does terror, suffering for civilians
Updated 0909 GMT (1709 HKT) June 6, 2017
A Humvee screams into the field clinic a few kilometers from western Mosul's current front line. A teenage girl is carried out, listless. An elderly man is in complete shock, unable to utter a word, and is helped towards a bed. A woman struggling to breathe is quickly given oxygen.
Ten-year-old year old Mariam Salim and her older sister, Ina'am, are being tended to in the back.
"My parents are under the rubble, (another) sister is dead. I saw her," Ina'am mutters, her lips quivering.
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