US sanctions are 'trade war' on Russia, says PM Medvedev
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has said new sanctions imposed by the US are tantamount to declaring a "full-scale trade war" against Moscow.
He said the measures, signed by Donald Trump, demonstrated the complete impotence of the US president, who he said had been humiliated by Congress.
The law aims to punish Russia for its alleged meddling in the 2016 US elections and its actions in Ukraine.
Mr Trump accused Congress of overreach on the legislation.
In signing the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act on Wednesday, he attached a statement calling the measure "deeply flawed".
The war America can't win: how the Taliban took back Afghanistan
The Taliban controls places like Helmand, where the US and UK troops fought their hardest battles, pushing the drive toward peace and progress into reverse
by Sune Engel Rasmussen in Lashkar Gah
In a rocky graveyard at the edge of Lashkar Gah, a local police commander was digging his sister’s grave.
Her name was Salima, but it was never uttered at her funeral. As is custom in rural Afghanistan, no women attended the funeral, and of the dozens of men gathered to pay their respects, few had known the deceased.
Salima, like almost all women in Helmand province, had spent most of her life after puberty cloistered in her family home.
Her family said she accidentally shot herself in the face when she came across a Kalashnikov hidden under some blankets while cleaning.
China’s Muslim minority banned from using their own language in schools
Regional government accused of 'cultural genocide'
The Uighur population in the restive western Xinjiang province, are ethnically distinct from China’s majority Han population.
Recent years have seen bloody clashes in the region, which the Chinese government blames on Islamist militants and separatists. But rights groups say the unrest is more a reaction to repressive policies, and argue that the new measures may end up pushing some Uighurs into extremism.
Venezuela's top prosecutor opens probe into electoral fraud
The Venezuelan attorney general has described the damning allegations of vote manipulation as a "scandalous act." The company charged with tallying the result said the number of votes cast had been altered by a million.
Luisa Ortega, Venezuela's attorney general and a fierce critic of President Nicolas Maduro, vowed to investigate claims that the government manipulated Sunday's controversial election turnout.
"I have appointed two prosecutors to investigate the four directors of the National Electoral Council for this very scandalous act," Ortega told broadcaster CNN.
Her remarks came just hours after Smartmatic, a British firm tasked with providing Venezuela with the voting technology for Sunday's ballot, alleged that the turnout numbers they recorded did not correspond with the numbers stated by the National Electoral Council.
Turkish soldiers torture Syrians trying to cross the border
Border guards violently beat and insulted four Syrians who were trying to enter Turkey illegally on Friday, July 28 in the area of Hatay, in the country's southwest. In the video, which was filmed by one of the soldiers and has been circulating on social media since Sunday, one can see the young Syrian men being kicked and hit with batons as they try to protect themselves.
"Why are you coming to Turkey? Where are you going? To Istanbul? What is there in Turkey?" shouts the soldier who is filming the scene, while his colleagues kick and punch the Syrian men before hitting them with one of their truncheons.
The soldier filming accuses one of the Syrians of being a trafficker. "Why did you help refugees cross the border? Are you a trafficker?” he asks while he's beating the man on the ground. Then he goes back to his colleagues, to whom he gives an order: "Hit them!" One soldier starts kicking the man. The one filming and another soldier join in. One of the soldiers tells the man on the ground, "Don't cry!"
"Why are you coming to Turkey? Where are you going? To Istanbul? What is there in Turkey?" shouts the soldier who is filming the scene, while his colleagues kick and punch the Syrian men before hitting them with one of their truncheons.
The soldier filming accuses one of the Syrians of being a trafficker. "Why did you help refugees cross the border? Are you a trafficker?” he asks while he's beating the man on the ground. Then he goes back to his colleagues, to whom he gives an order: "Hit them!" One soldier starts kicking the man. The one filming and another soldier join in. One of the soldiers tells the man on the ground, "Don't cry!"
Father of robotics team member killed in Herat attack
Fatemah Qaderyan, who shot to fame by leading team travelling to United States, grieving after devastating loss.
The father of one of the Afghan girls who caught the world's attention when trying to attend a robotics contest in the United States was killed on Tuesday in an ISIL-claimed attack at a mosque in Herat.
Fatemah Qaderyan, the 14-year-old Afghan robotics team captain, is "angry and grieving" following the deadly attack targeting Shia worshippers, the team's coach, Ali Reza Mehrban, told Al Jazeera.
"Fatemah's father could not survive the injuries and lost his life," Ali Reza Mehrban, the team's director, told Al Jazeera.
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