Stormy Daniels sues Trump over alleged affair and 'hush' agreement
Updated 0417 GMT (1217 HKT) March 7, 2018
A new lawsuit filed by the porn star known as Stormy Daniels claims President Donald Trump never signed a hush agreement regarding an alleged sexual encounter between the two and therefore the agreement is void.
According to the legal complaint filed in California state court and tweeted out by her lawyer on Tuesday, Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, signed the document on behalf of the President instead.
US says North Korea assassinated Kim Jong-nam with chemical weapon
State department makes assertion as tensions appear to be thawing on Korea peninsular
The United States has determined North Korea used a banned chemical weapon to assassinate the half brother of leader Kim Jong-un in Malaysia last year, with the claim coming just hours after Pyongyang signalled it was willing to give up its nuclear weapons.
Kim Jong-nam was killed with the chemical warfare agent VX at the Kuala Lumpur airport last year, violating the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act.
“The United States strongly condemns the use of chemical weapons to conduct an assassination,” Heather Nauert, a state department spokesperson, said in a statement.Poverty in Egypt: How the turbulence of the Arab Spring revolution has led the country to economic ruin
Intended to manage the economic fallout, the policies of President Abdel Fateh el Sisi have done little to improve the lives of ordinary EgyptiansEdmund Bower
With his hands blackened from work, wearing a baggy T-shirt stained with motor oil, 40-year-old Said Eid stands among the bits of scrap metal from which he scrapes together a living of 600 Egyptian pounds (£24) a month. In his open-air workshop, high on the eastern hills of a slum neighbourhood of Cairo, the father-of-four says with a sigh: “Life is a lot more difficult than it used to be.”
For more than a decade, he’s kept food on the family dinner table by collecting and selling old bits of copper, but in the past couple of years, the prices of food, fuel and rent, have soared, while his income has stayed roughly the same. He’s one of many Egyptians who now find themselves teetering on the brink of poverty.
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Germany's long, hard slog in Afghanistan
A new government report on military and civilian engagement in Afghanistan makes no mention of progress. According to Berlin, the worsening security situation is severely hampering Germany's commitment to reconstruction.
The wording alone suggests the gravity of the situation. Until the end of 2014, the German government's regular dispatches on Afghanistan were called "Progress Reports." Now they are simply called interim reports, or in this case: "Government Report on the Status and Outlook of German Engagement in Afghanistan." The word progress is nowhere to be found.
According to the 26-page paper outlining the framework of Germany's military and civilian engagement in Afghanistan, the security situation in the country has deteriorated substantially since the withdrawal of NATO forces in December 2014. The report's authors from the German Foreign Office are rather plain on page 20: "Combat actions, (terror) attacks and the risk of kidnapping now allow for investments and consulting services only under strict security precautions and make long-term, sustainable-oriented engagement by international specialists difficult."
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman begins official UK visit
As ruling party welcomes Gulf royal, protesters and opposition politicians call on prime minister to challenge kingdom.by Claire Gilbody-Dickerson
Mohammad bin Salman is expected to begin an official visit to the UK on Wednesday, with the ruling Conservative Party and royal family rolling out the red carpet for Saudi Arabia's crown prince as opposition politicians and rights groups call on British Prime Minister Theresa May to use the trip to challenge the kingdom's record on human rights.
Protesters are expected to gather outside Downing Street in London on Wednesday from 17:00 GMT to demonstrate against the visit.
The trip by the crown prince, who is known as MBS, includes a stop at May's countryside residence for talks on Thursday, a lunch with the queen and a dinner with Prince Charles and Prince William.
The escort claiming to have tapes proving Russian interference in the US election, explained
Nastya Rybka says she has tapes.
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A Russian oligarch, a top Russian government official, and a high-end escort take a trip together on a yacht. Months later, after being thrown into a Thai prison, the escort claims she knows about secret Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. And she says she has tapes.
It sounds utterly absurd. And, to be clear, Anastasia Vashukevich (who also goes by the name Nastya Rybka) may not actually have anything close to what she claims she does. She’s clearly self-interested — she’s trying to avoid deportation back to her home country of Belarus and is asking the US to extradite her in exchange for her information. She also has a history of bizarre self-promotional stunts.
But Vashukevich’s claims have been getting a surprising amount of attention from mainstream media sources — and for some understandable reasons.
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