Jerusalem: Netanyahu expects EU to follow US recognition
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says he expects European countries to follow the US in recognising Jerusalem as his country's capital.
He is in Brussels for talks - the first time an Israeli prime minister has visited the city in more than 20 years.
But the EU's foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini says the bloc's stance on the matter is unchanged.
Donald Trump's move has left the US isolated on a highly sensitive issue between Israel and the Palestinians.
Arriving in Brussels, Mr Netanyahu again welcomed the announcement, saying Jerusalem had been the capital of the Jewish people for 3,000 years and Mr Trump had put "facts squarely on the table".
Hundreds take part in rare protest in Beijing over migrant crackdown
Demonstrators condemn evictions and demolitions carried out by authorities which have seen thousands lose their homes
Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets of the Chinese capital to pillory Beijing’s crackdown on migrant communities with chants of “violent evictions violate human rights”.
Demonstrators gathered on the streets of Feijia village, about 12 miles northeast of Tiananmen Square, on Sunday for the small but rare rally condemning the eviction and demolition campaign.
Activists say thousands of migrant workers have been forced from their homes in Beijing’s rundown periphery since late November when authorities intensified efforts to drive “low-end” migrant workers out of the city in the wake of a deadly tenement fire.
We now wait to see if the people of Alabama really can justify voting for Roy Moore
Alabamans have a duty, not just to reject Moore and show the respect his accusers deserve, but to send a message to Trump and his allies that taking the low road isn’t funny anymore
For Donald Trump little is out of bounds. Abandoning all pretence of being a fair broker in the Middle East and retweeting anti-Muslim bigotry carry no obvious penalty. Nor apparently does backing a Senate candidate accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct. That would be the pony-riding, Psalm-thumping, hypocrisy-oozing Roy Moore of Alabama.
Until now, at least, there has only been reward for Trump and the people who think like him. They delight in making critics gasp and hold their heads in dismay. It is a game of sorts. Provoke a reaction from the other side – not just Democrats and progressives but also so-called establishment members of their own party – and then ridicule them for their political correctness.
Venezuela: President Nicolas Maduro blocks opposition parties from presidential poll
President Nicolas Maduro said three parties which boycotted mayoral elections should be ineligible for future votes. He said the ruling party won at least 90 percent of the 335 mayorships.
President Nicolas Maduro has said the opposition parties Accion Democratica, Primero Justicia and Voluntad Popular — which refused to take part in Sunday's mayoral elections in protest of what they called a rigged and corrupt electoral system — should be barred from next year's presidential vote.
"A party that has not participated today cannot participate anymore," Maduro (main photo) said, calling Sunday's turnout "extraordinary." He asked what the opposition wanted. "If they don't want elections, what are they doing? What's the alternative? [Civil] war?"
"They will disappear from the political map," Maduro of the opposition parties.
Perspective
Why are crimes against women ignored?
Do men and women experience time differently? For weeks now, Islamabad has been held hostage by men behaving badly and deadlines and schedules have done no damage to their sense of self. Meanwhile, a different story is playing on loop for a 16-year-old girl in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: every day she wakes up and remembers that men stripped and paraded her naked through her village and there is no justice in sight. Each day is a bullet for her; each day for those badly behaved men is a blank.
The girl’s public humiliation in October was a punishment for her brother’s (alleged) transgression. The police initially refused to file a first information report and when it did, it filed one against her family and not those who had attacked her and filmed it. As I write this, the Supreme Court has taken notice of the lack of progress on the case and asked for weekly reports. I wonder how different those reports will be from reports of similar incidents, stretching back decades. That is how long this particular brand of vengeance has been recognised as a crime punishable by life imprisonment or death in our penal code.
Army's rape of Rohingya women sweeping, methodical: AP
The rape of Rohingya women by Myanmar's security forces has been sweeping and methodical, the Associated Press news agency found in interviews with 29 women and girls who fled to neighbouring Bangladesh.
The sexual assault survivors from several refugee camps were interviewed separately and extensively.
The women gave AP their names, but agreed to be publicly identified only by their first initial, citing fears they or their families would be killed by Myanmar's military.
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