Donald Trump Jr was told of Russian efforts to help campaign – report
President’s son faces calls to testify before Senate over Russia meeting
Donald Trump Jr was informed in an email ahead of a meeting with a Russian lawyer that damaging information about Hillary Clinton to be handed over was part of an effort by the Russian government to help the Trump campaign, the New York Times has reported.
The Times did not publish the email – sent by Rob Goldstone, the intermediary who set up the meeting – but reported that three different people had described it to them.
Trump Jr’s meeting is the first “clear evidence” in public of senior Trump campaign members meeting with Russians while looking for such material, a leading Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee said on Monday.
After G20: A look at left-wing radicalism in Europe
The recent violence in Hamburg, some of which was perpetrated by people who traveled there from across Europe, has thrown the spotlight on the extreme Left. DW looks at the basics of a very complex phenomenon.
How many left-wing extremists are there in Europe?
It is difficult to name exact figures since far more research has been done about extremism on the political Right than on the Left. As the mayhem in Hamburg showed, there is a radical left-wing network in Europe whose activities are at least somewhat coordinated. But Europol says it doesn't have any reliable estimates of the numbers of people involved.
In its latest report on the defense of the country's constitution, the German Interior Ministry estimates that in 2016, Germany (total population 81.4 million) had 28,500 left-wing extremists, of whom 8,500 were considered violent. Far-left radicalism exists across Europe, and countries like Italy, Greece and Sweden have radical left-wing subcultures that are at least as prominent as Germany's. There has been significant left-wing street violence in relatively well-heeled places like Zurich and Bern in Switzerland as well.
Amarnath yatra attack | Live: Bodies of seven pilgrims brought to Surat
As Inspector General of Police (IGP) Muneer Khan blamed the Lashkar-i-Taiba for the attack, the militant outfit denied its involvement.
Seven Amarnath pilgrims were killed and 12 injured when terrorists opened fire at a patrol vehicle on the Srinagar-Jammu Highway on Monday night. A police official said the vehicle came under fire at Anantnag’s Batengo area around 8.30 p.m.
The attack took place when quick response teams of the Army had withdrawn from the highway around sunset, making the vehicle vulnerable.
Here are the latest updates:
Bodies of the seven pilgrims brought to Surat
The bodies of seven pilgrims killed in the attack were brought to Gujarat’s Surat airport along with the injured and their family members in an IAF plane.
Threats and attacks: White supremacists target campuses
Group documents 330 bias incidents on US college and university campuses from late November 2016 to March 2017.
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When Tommy Curry woke up one day in May, he found a slew of death threats and hate mail on his voicemail and in his email inbox.
Although it wasn't the first time Curry, an African-American philosophy professor at Texas A&M University, had received death threats, he was shocked by the "constant barrage" of messages threatening his life and those of his wife and children.
Curry says he received threats that said: "You and your family of African baboons might need to get killed" and "Crackers are coming to get your black ass."
Where does ISIS go after Mosul?
By Tim Lister, CNN
The caliphate declared from a pulpit in Mosul three years ago is in tatters, with the remnants of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's forces expelled to the desert and beyond.
After nine months of combat, the Iraqi Security Forces have reached both banks of the Tigris River in Mosul, and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has celebrated victory over ISIS in the country's second largest city.
In the Syrian city of Raqqa, a rebel force heavily supported by the US (on the ground and from the air) have pushed ISIS back into an ever-shrinking enclave. Remorseless airstrikes against ISIS' sources of revenue -- especially oil -- and against its leadership have dramatically weakened the group's ability to sustain and organize its fighters.
JARED KUSHNER TRIED AND FAILED TO GET A HALF-BILLION-DOLLAR BAILOUT FROM QATAR
NOT LONG BEFORE a major crisis ripped through the Middle East, pitting the United States and a bloc of Gulf countries against Qatar, Jared Kushner’s real estate company had unsuccessfully sought a critical half-billion-dollar investment from one of the richest and most influential men in the tiny nation, according to three well-placed sources with knowledge of the near transaction.
Kushner is a senior adviser to President Trump, and also his son-in-law, and also the scion of a New York real estate empire that faces an extreme risk from an investment made by Kushner in the building at 666 Fifth Avenue, where the family is now severely underwater.
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