Donald Trump's son and aides to testify in Senate about Russia
US President Donald Trump's eldest son, son-in-law and ex-campaign manager are to testify before the Senate on alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Donald Trump Jr, Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort will be questioned about their links to Russian officials.
One key subject will be their meeting with a Russian lawyer last year.
Meanwhile, the president said he would not have named Jeff Sessions as attorney general if had he known he would recuse himself from the inquiry.
The president has also spoken about an until recently undisclosed conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a G20 dinner, saying it was mostly "pleasantries".
Get out! Chinese agents bar access to the 'free' wife of Liu Xiaobo
Plainclothes agents surround Guardian within seconds of arriving at Beijing apartment of Liu Xia, who activists say has ‘fallen off the face of the Earth’
Chinese authorities claim Liu Xia is a free woman. But one week after the death of her husband, the Nobel laureate and democracy activist Liu Xiaobo, a visit to the couple’s Beijing home immediately gives the lie to that claim.
Within seconds of arriving at the tree-lined property on Wednesday, the Guardian was surrounded by plain-clothes security agents, shouting orders and questions, demanding that its reporters leave.
“Where are you going? Where are you going?” snapped one man, wearing black Bermuda shorts and Adidas Superstars, as he used his body to block the path that leads to the fourth-floor flat.
Former Isis 'sex slave' returns home to northern Iraq take revenge on the group
'I am carrying this weapon to take revenge'
A Yazidi woman who was held prisoner by Isis for nearly three years has returned to her hometown to "take revenge" on the militants.
Heiza Shankal was kidnapped along with thousands of other Yazidi women and children when Isis swept across Iraq in a brutal campaign in August 2014.
Around 50,000 members of the long-persecuted religious and ethnic group were trapped when Isis besieged Mount Sinjar.
Adult men were murdered, boys were captured and separated to be trained as child soldiers, and the women and girls were sold into sexual slavery.
Chile poised to ease strict laws on abortion
Latest update : 2017-07-20
Chile was poised to lift its total ban on abortion, after the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday weighed a measure to decriminalize the procedure in certain cases, the last step before it would go to President Michelle Bachelet for her signature.
Until now, the South American country has been part of a small group of socially conservative nations that barred abortion under all circumstances -- including the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Gabon, Haiti, Malta, Nicaragua, the Philippines and Senegal.
But if passed, the legislation would allow abortion in cases of rape, if the mother's life is at risk or if the fetus presents a deadly birth defect.
The lower chamber's vote, expected on Thursday, will come after the senate passed the measure in the early hours of Wednesday.
From lowest caste to highest office: this man may soon be India's president
Amrit Dhillon
New Delhi: "Who?" That was the reaction of most Indians when they heard that Ram Nath Kovind, expected to be announced in the coming hours as India's new president, was first nominated for the post.
Kovind, 71, will be only the second dalit - a member of the lowest caste in India - since independence to occupy the largely ceremonial post.
Few had heard of this low-profile and soft-spoken lawyer who is the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's choice to be the occupant of the presidential palace in New Delhi, originally built to house British viceroys. The final decision rests with more than 4800 federal and state MPs, who on Monday cast their ballots for the presidency. Counting will conclude at 5pm Delhi time today (9.30pm AEST).
The torture survivors suing the Syrian regime
On Thursday, Germany’s federal prosecutor will hear witness testimony in a landmark case filed by the Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), which accuses six high-ranking Syrian officials close to President Bashar al-Assad of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The complaint was submitted by several Syrian ex-detainees, including two Syrian lawyers, who say they were victims of torture in the regime’s cells. While similar legal action has been taken elsewhere in Europe, this case is unique in that it was launched under the principle of universal jurisdiction, which allows prosecutors and courts to pursue international crimes even in the absence of links to Germany.
In February, Assad denied claims of torture in Syrian prisons, saying in an interview that the allegations had “not a shred of evidence.”
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