Exclusive: Mueller's interest in Kushner grows to include foreign financing efforts
By Shimon Prokupecz, Kara Scannell and Gloria Borger, CNN
Special counsel Robert Mueller's interest in Jared Kushner has expanded beyond his contacts with Russia and now includes his efforts to secure financing for his company from foreign investors during the presidential transition, according to people familiar with the inquiry.
This is the first indication that Mueller is exploring Kushner's discussions with potential non-Russian foreign investors, including in China.
US officials briefed on the probe had told CNN in May that points of focus related to Kushner, the White House senior adviser and son-in-law of President Donald Trump, included the Trump campaign's 2016 data analytics operation, his relationship with former national security adviser Michael Flynn, and Kushner's own contacts with Russians.
Homo erectus may have been a sailor – and able to speak
A new theory suggests that Homo erectus was able to create seagoing vessels – and must have used language to sail successfully
They had bodies similar to modern humans, could make tools, and were possibly the first to cook. Now one expert is arguing that Homo erectus might have been a mariner – complete with sailing lingo.
Homo erectus first appeared in Africa more than 1.8m years ago and is thought to be the first archaic human to leave the continent.
H. erectus fossils have turned up not only in Southern Europe, but as far afield as China and Indonesia. Some argue that the mysterious hominid Homo floresiensis, discovered on the island of Flores, could be descended from H. erectus – although others disagree.UN: 'Senseless human suffering' must end in East Ghouta
UN warns bombardment must stop as more than 100 civilians killed in regime attacks on rebel-held area east of Damascus.
The United Nations says it is alarmed by "the extreme escalation in hostilities" in Syria's Eastern Ghouta and called for "immediate" end to bombardment of the rebel-held area that has left more than 100 people dead since Sunday.
"The recent escalation of violence compounds an already precarious humanitarian situation," Panos Moumtzis, the UN's regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syria crisis, said in a statement on Tuesday.
"It's imperative to end this senseless human suffering now. Such targeting of innocent civilians and infrastructure must stop now."
Mexico arrests 'the Accountant' of notorious Gulf cartel
The Mexican navy has captured the likely "leader of a criminal organization" in the northern border state of Tamaulipas. Authorities have upped the pressure against cartels amid escalating violence across the country.
Mexican marines on Monday arrested Jose Alfredo Cardenas, better known as "the Accountant" of the Gulf cartel, in the northern border state of Tamaulipas.
The Mexican navy announced the arrest, saying marines had captured the suspect in Matamoros, a city which lies across from Brownsville, Texas.
"Presumably he was the leader of a criminal organization in the region," said a statement from the Mexican navy. Military-grade weapons, cocaine and a vehicle were also seized during the operation.
The state of Tamaulipas is known as a strategic corridor for trafficking drugs and migrants to the US. The US State Department last month warned citizens against visiting the state, issuing a "Do Not Travel" advisory.
Malaysian artist jailed for clown caricature of PM
A Malaysian artist was jailed for a month Tuesday for publishing a caricature of scandal-plagued Prime Minister Najib Razak looking like a clown, the latest government critic to be imprisoned.
Fahmi Reza's picture of the premier wearing powder-white clown make-up, with evilly arched eyebrows and blood-red lips, went viral and the image was widely used in demonstrations against Najib.
His lawyer Syahredzan Johan said Fahmi, 40, was jailed and fined 30,000 ringgit ($7,700) by a court in the northern city of Ipoh after being found guilty of breaching laws that ban the spreading online of content that is deemed offensive.
"We are certainly appealing and are disappointed by the decision," Syahredzan told AFP.
DRONES IN THE SAHARA
A Massive U.S. Drone Base Could Destabilize Niger — and May Even Be Illegal Under Its Constitution
Joe Penney
LATE IN THE morning of October 4 last year, a convoy of Nigerien and American special forces soldiers in eight vehicles left the village of Tongo Tongo. As they made their way between mud-brick houses with thatched roofs, they were attacked from one side by dozens of militants, if not hundreds. Outnumbered and outgunned, the Nigeriens and Americans fled, some on foot, running for cover behind trees and clusters of millet, their boots caked in the light brown earth. By the time the fighting was over, five Nigeriens and four Americans were killed, their bodies left naked in the bush after the militants took their uniforms.
The news went straight to the front pages in the United States and sparked a conflict between the family of one of the soldiers and President Donald Trump, after the president made insensitive remarks during a condolence call to the soldier’s widow. But the story also spread like wildfire throughout Niger, where the big news wasn’t so much that American soldiers had been killed, but that Americans soldiers were fighting in the country in the first place.
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