Trump detonates Brexit bomb in Britain visit
Updated 0535 GMT (1335 HKT) July 13, 2018
With a friend like Donald Trump, Theresa May doesn't need enemies.
The President delivered an astonishing political knifing of the British Prime Minister on Thursday, comprehensively undermining her fragile position in Britain's tortuous negotiations on leaving the European Union and getting his visit to the country off to the most explosive of starts.
In an interview with the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper The Sun, Trump said May had ignored his advice on Brexit, he praised former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson -- who has just walked out of her Cabinet over the issue -- and he said May's cherished hope of a free trade deal with the US would be killed off by her softened approach.
'I saw my house sink': Japan takes stock after deadly rains
As search operations continue questions asked about ability to withstand extreme weather
After the waters had receded and the sun finally made an appearance, Ken Kirioka was contemplating the personal cost of the heaviest rainfall Japan has experienced in more than three decades.
Kirioka looked on helplessly as rescue workers dug their way through the mud that had crushed homes in the mountainside town of Kumano in search of the missing, including his 76-year-old father, Katsuharu.
“He is old and has a heart condition,” Kirioka said. “I prepared myself for the worst when I heard about the landslide,” he added, pointing to a pile of mud and rubble where he believed his father had been buried.
Cambodian activists fear for the future ahead of national elections
Critics of Cambodian PM Hun Sen face harsh punishments for reporting on corruption, which they say has eroded the country's institutions. Under one-party rule, a free press and opposition parties have also been stifled.
With puppets, a camera and a Facebook account, 26-year-old "Vannak" risks his life and freedom to create short videos criticizing the government of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has ruled the country with impunity for 33 years.
"Three things can happen to me. Either I will be deported, jailed, or killed. But that will not stop me," Vannak told DW, using a pseudonym.
Vannak is one of a few Cambodians who dare oppose Hun Sen's regime amid a brutal crackdown on freedom of speech.
France braces for big Bastille Day, World Cup final weekend
Security has been tightened for the weekend for what France hopes will be back-to-back celebrations of the July 14 Bastille Day festivities and a 2018 World Cup final victory.
At a press conference Thursday, Paris Police Chief Michel Delpuech said 12,000 officers and 3,000 rescue workers will be mobilised in Paris and its suburbs for France's national day on Saturday and on Sunday, when France meets Croatia for the World Cup final match in Moscow.
The traditional Bastille Day military parade on the Champs Élysées will be followed, the next day, by public viewings of the World Cup, including at a massive fan zone around the Champ de Mars Park near the iconic Eiffel Tower.
South Sudan president, rebels disagree over mandate extension
Parliament votes to extend the tenure of President Salva Kiir until 2021, a move opposition dubbed illegal.by Fidelis Mbah
South Sudan's peace process has been complicated by the parliament's vote to extend the tenure of President Salva Kiir by three years while talks are under way to bring an end to the country's civil war, experts and opposition leaders say.
The opposition is already kicking, describing the move as illegal, coming just days after they rejected plans to reinstate rebel Leader Riek Machar as vice president, saying it had failed to dilute Kiir's power.
The wild Peter Strzok congressional hearing, explained
The FBI agent accused of political bias defended himself in a raucous hearing.
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For months, FBI agent Peter Strzok has had a starring role in President Donald Trump’s preferred narrative that the Russia investigation is a deep-state witch hunt that’s biased against him.
But on Thursday, Strzok testified for hours at a congressional hearing and gave his side of the story for the first time — and what a hearing it was. (Actually, as of press time it’s still going on, over nine hours after it started.)
In a raucous, partisan, circus-like atmosphere, Strzok repeatedly claimed that his personal political views — expressed in thousands of texts sent to his coworker and lover, Lisa Page — never affected any of his decisions in either the Hillary Clinton email investigation or the Trump-Russia probe (until special counsel Robert Mueller removed him from it last summer).
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