Donald Trump: 'worst hour' for president as Manafort and Cohen guilty
Former campaign chairman’s conviction and ex-lawyer’s plea deliver double blow as president faces legal jeopardy
David Smith in Washington DC, Tom McCarthy in New York, Ben Jacobs in Virginia and Kevin Rawlinson
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Human rights activists are campaigning to save the life of the first woman in Saudi Arabia to be sentenced to death over her political activism.
Israa al-Ghomgham, 29, was arrested along with her husband Moussa al-Hashem in December 2015 for their roles in organising anti-government protests in eastern Qatif province in the aftermath of the Arab Spring.
In a hearing at Riyadh’s specialised criminal court earlier this month, the public prosecutor recommended Ms Ghomgham and five other defendants face beheading under anti-terrorism legislation.
President Nicolás Maduro launched the new banknotes on Monday, revaluing and renaming the old bolivar currency.
The government says this will tackle runaway inflation, but critics say it could make the crisis worse. The notes went into circulation on Tuesday.
President Maduro had declared Monday to be a bank holiday.
Central Japan Railway Co on Wednesday conducted its first drill involving a knife-wielding attacker on a bullet train following a deadly rampage on a shinkansen train in June.
Based on the scenario that a knife-wielding man is in a train car, members of the train crew with shields approached the perpetrator from both the front of the car and rear and security officials subdued him with a two-pronged weapon commonly used by Japanese police.
The drill was carried out at a stockyard in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture.
JR Central began installing shields and sprays this month on bullet train cars operating on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line and is expected to complete the installation by the end of this year.
Former campaign chairman’s conviction and ex-lawyer’s plea deliver double blow as president faces legal jeopardy
David Smith in Washington DC, Tom McCarthy in New York, Ben Jacobs in Virginia and Kevin Rawlinson
Israa al-Ghomgham, 29, was arrested along with her husband Moussa al-Hashem in December 2015 for their roles in organising anti-government protests in eastern Qatif province in the aftermath of the Arab Spring.
Iran was behind a sprawling disinformation operation on Facebook that targeted hundreds of thousands of people around the world, the social media company said Tuesday night, underscoring Silicon Valley’s increasingly global war on disinformation.
The Iranian effort dated to 2011 and had ties to state media operations in that country, Facebook said, involving hundreds of accounts on both Facebook and its sister site, Instagram. It also spread to Twitter and YouTube, which both companies said they also removed. The fake Iranian accounts bought ads on Facebook and used it to organize events.
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has defended her government's actions in Rakhine state which have forced more than 700,000 Muslim-majority Rohingya to flee their homes and seek refuge in neighbouring Bangladesh.
Speaking at a lecture in Singapore in which she reviewed her first two years in power, Aung San Suu Kyi refused to recognise the atrocities committed by the Myanmar military and instead justified her government's campaign against the beleaguered Muslim community.
Venezuela came to a standstill on Tuesday as the country tried to deal with its newly introduced currency.
Thousands of businesses closed in order to adapt to the "sovereign bolivar", and many workers stayed at home.President Nicolás Maduro launched the new banknotes on Monday, revaluing and renaming the old bolivar currency.
The government says this will tackle runaway inflation, but critics say it could make the crisis worse. The notes went into circulation on Tuesday.
President Maduro had declared Monday to be a bank holiday.
Central Japan Railway Co on Wednesday conducted its first drill involving a knife-wielding attacker on a bullet train following a deadly rampage on a shinkansen train in June.
Based on the scenario that a knife-wielding man is in a train car, members of the train crew with shields approached the perpetrator from both the front of the car and rear and security officials subdued him with a two-pronged weapon commonly used by Japanese police.
The drill was carried out at a stockyard in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture.
JR Central began installing shields and sprays this month on bullet train cars operating on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line and is expected to complete the installation by the end of this year.
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