FBI and White House clash over controversial Republican memo
The FBI has questioned moves to release a secret memo said to accuse it of abusing surveillance powers to target Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
"We have grave concerns about the material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo's accuracy," the agency said.
There are suggestions the Congressional memo may be published on Thursday.
Democrats fear the document may be an attempt to discredit the inquiry into Trump campaign links to Russia.
Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff accused his Republican counterparts of altering the text of the document after it was voted on. He said it should be withdrawn and reviewed again prior to any possible public release.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is leading the investigation into alleged Russian meddling and possible obstruction of justice by members of the Trump
Displaced Rohingya children left in limbo by refugee crisis
Ben Doherty in the Moinerghona refugee camp, Bangladesh
The soldiers came in the darkness to Majuma Begum’s village. She watched the soldiers work systematically through Boli Bazaar, torching homes and executing those who did not, or could not, flee. Seven months pregnant, she ran.
“When the burning started, I ran with my family members for the forest. We stayed for four days hiding there. We had nothing. I ate the bark from the trees.”
With the village razed, the soldiers left. But fearing ambush, and with no home to return to, Majuma and her family fled for the border.
“We were walking but I felt weak and it was difficult for me,” she says. “I fell down and hurt my leg. I couldn’t walk, so people carried me. We reached the border after two days, and we crossed to Bangladesh. I feel safer here.”
CAS nullifies lifetime Olympic bans on Russians
The Court of Arbitration for Sport has upheld 28 and partially upheld 11 of the 39 appeals from Russian athletes to have their lifetime Olympic bans overturned. The news is a big blow to the IOC.
The Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS) has delivered a hammer blow to the International Olympic Committee by upholding or partially upholding appeals from 39 Russian athletes against Olympic life bans.
The IOC banned the Russians for doping breaches at the Sochi Winter Games in 2014 after an independent report said there was a state-run doping program in Russia. But CAS has ruled that the IOC had not proved that 28 of the athletes had individually been part of the doping scheme.
"Both CAS panels unanimously found that the evidence put forward by the IOC in relation to this matter did not have the same weight in each individual case," a CAS statement said.
How 'iron painting' became a tool for social inclusion in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Zdena Šarić from Zenica, in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, is not an ordinary artist. Instead of a paint brush, she uses an electric iron. Instead of a canvas, she uses old wall calendars. And nearly every Wednesday, she teaches classes to young adults with disabilities, showing them how to use household appliances – such as clothes irons, soldering irons and ovens – to make paintings.
For more than two years, Šarić has offered these classes through a small local association called Zvijezda. Zvijezda is run by parents of children and young adults who have a range of intellectual and physical disabilities, such as Down syndrome and paralysis. The association offers daycare and activities that promote socialisation. In Šarić’s class, the students create paintings using a technique officially called “encaustic” or “hot wax painting”, but which is most often referred to as “iron painting”.
The conspiracy theories surrounding FBI agent Peter Strzok may have just taken a big blow
Right-wing media believes he plotted against Trump. Turns out he might’ve helped get him elected.
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It turns out that the FBI agent who many conservatives believe secretly plotted to take down President Donald Trump may have actually helped get the president elected.
CNN has obtained emails that show that FBI agent Peter Strzok co-wrote the first draft of the letter that then-FBI Director James Comey sent to Congress in October 2016, announcing that the bureau was reopening an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails. That letter set off a political firestorm just 11 days before the presidential election and hurt Clinton at the polls — so much so that it may have swung the election in favor of Trump.
This development potentially throws a wrench in conservative theories that Strzok sought to undermine Trump in the run-up to the election, and that special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation is tainted by anti-Trump bias.
The surprising reason Mussolini’s home town wants to build a fascism museum
Michael Birnbaum and Stefano Pitrell
Thousands of admirers of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini visit his tiny home town every year. Now, as far-right parties expand their appeal ahead of March elections, the town's leftist mayor wants to open a museum of fascism on the main square, not as an homage to their cause but as a way to contain it.
The effort has reignited a long-running debate about Italy's conflicted relationship with the jut-jawed Mussolini, who seized power in 1922 and held his nation in thrall for more than two decades, building it into an industrial behemoth even as he threw his opponents into prison camps. Many historians and politicians say that Italy has never fully reckoned with its fascist past — and that one result is the modern-day popularity of leaders who cite Mussolini as a model.
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