Trump's transgender military ban 'not worked out yet'
The White House has not yet decided how it will implement the president's ban on transgender people serving in the US military.
Mr Trump's surprise Twitter announcement on Wednesday has been met with criticism from rights groups.
Spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said the administration would work alongside the Pentagon to decide how to proceed.
It is not yet clear how the announcement will affect current transgender service personnel.
Why was the ban introduced?
"The United States government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the US military," Donald Trump tweeted.
20 members of Pakistan village council accused of ordering rape of girl
Jirga members arrested for allegedly telling man who said his 13-year-old sister was raped to rape sister of accused
Pakistani police have arrested 20 members of a village council for allegedly ordering the rape of a teenager as punishment for a rape committed by her brother.
The incident occurred earlier this month in the neighbourhood of Raja Ram in Muzaffarabad, a suburb of the central city of Multan.
The 17-year-old victim is the sister of a man suspected in the rape of a 13-year-old girl earlier this month. The perpetrator of the second rape is believed to be the brother of the first victim.
All new security measures at Jerusalem holy site known as Temple Mount and Haram al-Sharif removed, Israel says
Site's religious authority tells faithful they can return to al-Aqsa mosque to pray, although Israeli police still brace for possible clashes during Friday prayers
Israeli police say they have removed all security measures recently put in place at the sacred compound in Jerusalem known as the Temple Mount in Judaism and Haram al-Sharif in Islam.
Security camera infrastructure including railings and an overhead bridge were dismantled in the early hours of Thursday, spokesperson Luba Samri said, following the removal of metal detectors the day before.
After completing their own inspection, the site's Muslim religious authority the Wafq announced that worshippers could end their current boycott of the site, urging the faithful to return to the compound's al-Aqsa mosque to pray.
'Anti-migrant' wall that divided French town comes tumbling down
In the middle of the night from Sunday 23 to Monday 24, a group of locals in the southern town of Séméac quietly constructed a concrete wall around the entrance of a disused hotel in protest against plans to turn it into a shelter for migrants. The wall – nicknamed “the wall of shame” by some residents – became a symbol of anti-migrant rhetoric, and divided opinions in the small town, before it was eventually demolished on Wednesday morning.
About 30 protesters in the “Collectif Séméac” (the Séméac Collective) built the wall, which measured 1.8 metres high and was about 20 metres long, across the entrance to the Formule 1 hotel in the dead of night. When locals discovered the wall in the morning, it generated quite a buzz in the Pyrenean town and across France, and shed a light on how smaller, more rural French towns are dealing with the arrival of migrants.
About 30 protesters in the “Collectif Séméac” (the Séméac Collective) built the wall, which measured 1.8 metres high and was about 20 metres long, across the entrance to the Formule 1 hotel in the dead of night. When locals discovered the wall in the morning, it generated quite a buzz in the Pyrenean town and across France, and shed a light on how smaller, more rural French towns are dealing with the arrival of migrants.
The caption reads: "Thank you to the "Séménac [sic] Collective" for giving such a disastrous image of their region and their country across the whole world. A reminder: the Formule 1 Hotel is supposed to urgently welcome 80 people, including 40 children, who asked the French state to protect them and want to request asylum as they are allowed to do by law."
Why North Korea still hates the United States: The legacy of the Korean War
Updated 0457 GMT (1257 HKT) July 27, 2017
The pause button was hit on the Korean War 64 years ago Thursday. Its legacy of destruction lives on.
In just three years, the war claimed the lives of millions of people and forever changed the Korean Peninsula.
"We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, some way or another, and some in South Korea, too," said former US Air Force commander Gen. Curtis LeMay in 1988, during an interview for an Air Force military history volume.
Two killed in Venezuela as opposition strike begins
Fresh clashes lift number killed in four months of violence to more than 100, as Maduro's controversial election nears.
At least two people were killed in renewed clashes between police and protesters in Venezuela, where a 48-hour strike called for by the opposition is taking place.
Authorities said a 30-year-old man was killed in the mountainous state of Merida, and prosecutors reported that a 16-year-old boy had also died on Wednesday.
The latest casualties bring to 105 the number of people killed in four months of violent protests against the government of President Nicolas Maduro, the AFP news agency said.
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