Trump ex-lawyer Michael Cohen's help with Russia probe revealed
President Donald Trump's ex-lawyer has given substantial help on how Russian nationals tried to affect the 2016 election, a legal memo has revealed.
Michael Cohen's help is detailed in the memo from Robert Mueller, who is heading the probe into alleged Russian collusion with the Trump team.
The memo is mainly to guide sentencing for crimes Cohen has admitted.
A second Mueller memo sets out the case against ex-campaign chief Paul Manafort for breaching a plea bargain deal.
Cohen and Manafort are among a number of Trump aides being investigated in Special Counsel Mueller's probe.
Both have been co-operating with his team but Mr Mueller now accuses Manafort of lying.
Revealed: the hidden global network behind Tommy Robinson
The British far-right activist Tommy Robinson is receiving financial, political and moral support from a broad array of non-British groups and individuals, including US thinktanks, rightwing Australians and Russian trolls, a Guardian investigation has discovered.
Robinson, an anti-Islam campaigner who is leading a “Brexit betrayal” march in London on Sunday, has received funding from a US tech billionaire and a thinktank based in Philadelphia.
Two other US thinktanks, part-funded by some of the biggest names in rightwing funding, have published a succession of articles in support of Robinson, who has become a cause célèbre among the American far right since he was jailed in May for two months.
Macron scrapping fuel tax is 'not enough,' says man who inspired Yellow Vests
Six weeks after posting a Facebook video calling on protesters to take up the yellow vest as a symbol, the movement is changing French politics. Ghislain Coutard tells DW he's shocked to see how quickly it spread.
In the weeks since Coutard posted his video, the Yellow Vests have gained international attention and shaken France to its core with nation-wide protests, often involving violent clashes with the police. DW spoke to Coutard, who works as a mechanic and serves as the spokesperson for the Yellow Vests in the southern city of Narbonne.
DW: How did you come up with the idea to use the yellow vest as a symbol?
Ghislain Coutard: It was really simple. I was making my video and I saw the vest that I use all the time for work. I thought to myself: it's highly visible, we all have one in our cars because it's required by law. So why not use it as a sort of color code. Just to see if people want to go out and protest. And bingo! That's exactly what happened.
You've said you were inspired by Eric Drouet, a truck driver who called for protests on November 17.
That's right. I've talked to him recently and he said he thinks the yellow vest was the final touch that was missing. So Eric Drouet put out the call and I came up with the symbol and it took off.
France 2019: What you need to know about the Women's World Cup
Updated 1419 GMT (2219 HKT) December 7, 2018
The draw for the eighth edition of the Women's World Cup takes place Saturday at La Seine Musicale in Paris.
Twenty-four teams will compete at next year's tournament in France, which will be held from 7 June to 7 July. Across nine host cities, 52 matches will be played to determine the winner.
Who are the favorites? Who are the players to watch? How did Bob Marley's daughter help Jamaica to the finals? Here is what you need to know about an event billed as the most competitive Women's World Cup yet
Palestinians battle home evictions in East Jerusalem's Silwan
The settlers' takeover of Batan al-Hawa is 'the most extensive expulsion process' in recent years in East Jerusalem.
Over the years, Israeli settlers have repeatedly offered Zuheir Rajabi and his neighbours millions of dollars for their modest homes stacked on the hillside of Silwan's Batan al-Hawa, a neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem.
The homes are in what is known as the Historic Basin of the Old City and in proximity to the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque, making them prized possessions.
A Jewish settler once offered Rajabi a blank cheque for his house, asking him to write any figure he chose, from 3m to 30m shekels ($800,000 to $8m).
Diet passes bill to accept more foreign workers
The Diet on Saturday passed a bill to broaden the entry of foreign workers into the country's labor-hungry sectors, despite concern the plan lacks detail and may not ensure proper working conditions.
Enactment of the legislation paves the way for Japan to formally open its doors to blue-collar workers, in a major policy shift for a country that has basically granted working visas only to people with professional knowledge and high skills such as doctors, lawyers and teachers.
The new visa system for foreign workers is expected to start in April, covering 14 sectors, including construction, farming and nursing care, which are identified as suffering from labor shortages amid Japan's aging population and falling birthrate.
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