Hoda Muthana: Trump bars Alabama woman who joined Isis from US return
Mike Pompeo says Muthana, 24, is not a US citizen but refusal to take her back likely to face legal challenge
Donald Trump has said he ordered the state department to block an American-born woman who left Alabama to join Islamic State in 2014 from returning to the US.
Hoda Muthana, 24, told the Guardian this week that she regretted leaving the US to join the terrorist group and wants to return from Syria with her 18-month-old son.
US secretary of state Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that the US will refuse to take Muthana back, saying she is “not a US citizen”.
The refusal to admit Muthana could set precedent and face legal challenges as it is generally extremely difficult to lose US citizenship.
Vatican opens landmark sex abuse summit
Under the banners of accountability and transparency, Pope Francis is opening an unprecedented summit on sex abuse in the Catholic Church. While survivors hope for change, fundamental reforms are likely a long way off.
Pope Francis kicks off a four-day summit on child protection on Thursday by warning bishops the faithful want concrete action, not just condemnation.
Church leaders from around the globe have gathered for the meeting, which will focus on the child sex abuse crisis within the Catholic Church, although abuse survivors have voiced concerns that Francis' efforts to raise awareness don't go far enough.
Indonesians clean up the beach one sandal at a time
Hundreds of people sifted through a vast wasteland of rubbish strewn across a beach in Indonesia on Thursday, underscoring the Southeast Asian archipelago's mammoth marine waste problem
Some 200 students, military personnel and locals scoured a beach on the southern tip of Sumatra island, picking up rubbish as they waded through heaps of plastic, discarded flip flops and other debris.
In just over three hours, the group collected an eye-watering 30 tonnes of rubbish from the coast in Lampung province.
The yearly campaign first kicked into action in 2010 after huge amounts of rubbish were getting trapped in the fishing nets of locals who made their living off the sea.
Most of the detritus had flowed in from the provincial capital.
Desperate and alone, Saudi sisters risk everything to flee oppression
Updated 0159 GMT (0959 HKT) February 21, 2019
The night they fled, Reem and Rawan didn't dare sleep.
It was September 6, 2018. The two Saudi sisters were on a family vacation in Colombo, Sri Lanka. For weeks, they had helped their mother organize the trip, feigning excitement at the possibility of two weeks away from Riyadh, but knowing that if all went to plan, they'd never go back.
Failure was not an option. Every step of their escape from Saudi Arabia carried the threat of severe punishment or death.
"We knew the first time, if it's not perfect, it will be the last time," Reem says.
Bangladesh fire: Blaze kills dozens in Dhaka historic district
A fast-moving fire swept through a historic district of Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, killing at least 78 people, officials say.
The blaze broke out at night in a residential building that had flammable material stored on the ground floor.
Members of a bridal party are thought to be among the victims. It is not yet clear what started the fire.
The centuries-old Chawkbazar district has narrow streets and buildings very close to each other.
Why Trump is lowering expectations for next week’s Kim Jong Un summit
Maybe — finally — Trump is getting North Korea negotiations right.
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President Donald Trump is just one week away from one of the most important moments of his presidency — and he’s trying to lower expectations in advance.
Trump plans to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam at the end of February for their second summit. Trump’s main goal, as it was when they met for the first time in Singapore last June, is to strike a deal to dismantle North Korea’s nuclear program.
That’s easier said than done. After months of talks, both sides are at an impasse: The US has demanded that North Korea offer a full, detailed list of its nuclear inventory before it lifts sanctions, while North Korea says the sanctions should be lifted before it provides the full list and seriously begins to downgrade its nuclear capabilities.
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