Trump insists hush money payments by Cohen were legal
US President Donald Trump has insisted that payments to two women who say he had affairs with them did not break election campaign rules.
Interviewed by Fox & Friends, Mr Trump said the payments had come from him personally, not from the campaign.
He has in the past denied knowing about one of the payments altogether.
Mr Trump also accused Cohen of making up stories to receive a lighter sentence.
What did Trump say exactly?
In an excerpt from the Fox & Friends interview, which will be aired in full on Thursday, Mr Trump responded to questions about the hush payments by insisting that they were "not a campaign violation".Colombian activists face 'extermination' by criminal gangs
Nearly two years after the signing of a historic peace agreement, violence in the country continues
He is tall and heavyset, and does not look like someone who scares easily, but as he sits in his humble rented home in western Colombia, his eyes dart nervously from left to right, scanning for any threat
Any moment could be his last, he says.
When a teenaged ice-cream vendor approaches the front door Fernández scurries anxiously to a back room, convinced the youth is helping set up an attempt on his life.
Germany halts Uighur deportations to China
The German government has suspended deportations of Uighurs to China until further notice, according to a media report. The Muslim minority faces discrimination and persecution in the northwestern Xinjiang region.
Uighurs and members of other Muslim minorities will no longer be deported from Germany to China, the Süddeutscher Zeitung reported on Thursday citing an Interior Ministry response to a Green party information request.
The ministry said expulsions had been put on hold because the country analysis department of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees had only recently compiled relevant country information concerning the plight of the Uighurs.
US, China slap more tariffs as trade spat escalates
The United States and China escalated their acrimonious trade war on Thursday, implementing punitive 25 percent tariffs on $16 billion worth of each other's goods.
China's Commerce Ministry said Washington was "remaining obstinate" by implementing the latest tariffs.
"China resolutely opposes this, and will continue to take necessary countermeasures," it said in a brief statement shortly after mid-day.
Children orphaned, not abandoned, point to a Rohingya tragedy
By Michael Bachelard
A vast number of Rohingya children stuck in the refugee camps of Bangladesh have been orphaned by violence, a new survey has found, contradicting the earlier view of aid workers that many had simply been separated from their parents in the chaotic conditions.
The research by aid organisation Save the Children has found that about half the children surveyed reported that their parents had been killed by horrific violence during military purges in neighbouring Myanmar. There are more than 6000 unaccompanied and separated Rohingya children living in the camps around Cox’s Bazar.
The finding comes at the first anniversary of the astounding influx of refugees to Bangladesh that began on August 25 last year, and which saw hundreds of thousands of people fleeing their homes under threat of death.
Recent Arrests Under New Anti-Protest Law Spotlight Risks That Off-Duty Cops Pose to Pipeline Opponents
Over the weekend, four opponents of the Bayou Bridge pipeline and an independent journalist covering their activities were arrested and charged under Louisiana House Bill 727, which makes trespassing on “critical infrastructure” facilities — a category that explicitly includes oil pipelines — a felony punishable by up to five years in prison, a fine of $1,000, or both. A total of eight people have now been charged under the law since it took effect on August 1.
HB 727 is one of numerous anti-protest laws that states have considered or enacted in the wake of the mass mobilization against the Dakota Access pipeline, which drew tens of thousands of people to gather near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in 2016 and 2017. The arrests also expose the blurred line between private security and public law enforcement that has become typical in the policing of anti-pipeline struggles.
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