Trump impeachment: 'Toxic' move driven by 'partisan rage', McConnell says
US President Trump's impeachment is the "most rushed, least thorough and most unfair" in history, the Senate's Republican leader Mitch McConnell says.
The Democrat-led House of Representatives had let its "partisan rage" create a "toxic precedent that will echo into the future", he added.
But Democrat Chuck Schumer said Mr McConnell had offered no defence of the president's actions.
On Wednesday, the House voted to impeach Mr Trump on two charges.
Scott Morrison apologises for taking holiday during Australia's bushfire crisis
Prime minister says he ‘deeply regrets’ any offence caused by him taking leave during fires, and he will return to Sydney
Fire threat sweeps across NSW, Queensland and South Australia – follow live updates
Scott Morrison has apologised for going on holiday while Australia is in the grip of an extended bushfire crisis and a record-breaking heatwave.
In a statement on Friday morning the prime minister explained he had brought forward his leave with his family due to the need to travel to Japan and India in January.
“I deeply regret any offence caused to any of the many Australians affected by the terrible bushfires by my taking leave with family at this time,” Morrison said.
Extinction Rebellion activists who glued themselves to trains spared jail as judge notes ‘noble’ cause
‘Your stated cause is to effect change in global attitudes to save the lives of most, if not all, of the human race,' says judge in sentencing remarksJane Dalton
A group of climate protesters who glued themselves to a train have been spared jail by a judge who acknowledge their "noble" intentions were to "protect all human life".
But the three Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists who disrupted rush-hour services at a busy London station have been warned they could be imprisoned if they break the law again.
Cathy Eastburn, 52, Mark Ovland, 36, and Luke Watson, 30, were each given a 12-month conditional discharge for halting trains at Canary Wharf in east London in April.
Julian Assange's road toward extradition raises rights concerns
WikiLeaks founder Assange is set to appear via video in a court hearing. His health and arrest conditions continue to be of concern to human rights experts, as calls to define him as a political refugee increase.
On Thursday, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is expected to appear via video conference at Westminster Magistrates Court in London for a case management hearing related to his possible extradition to the United States. The 48-year-old is currently being held in the maximum-security Belmarsh prison outside of London.
Assange's full extradition hearing is currently scheduled to begin at the end of February. Thursday's management hearing will therefore not result in a decision on extradition but will identify relevant issues and future legal arrangements.
Belgium convicts Rwandan officer over role in 1994 genocide
A Brussels court found a former Rwandan official guilty of genocide Thursday after hearing of his role in the 1994 massacres in his country.
Fabien Neretse, who protested his innocence, is the first person to be convicted in Belgium on such a charge and he now faces a possible life sentence.
The 71-year-old agricultural scientist was also convicted of "war crimes" for 11 killings in Rwanda, under Belgium's code of universal jurisdiction for the most serious offences.
Neretse remained passive in the dock during the sentencing. He and the families of his victims will learn of his fate after a separate sentencing hearing on Friday.
Why North Korea wants nothing to do with South Korea
Updated 0026 GMT (0826 HKT) December 20, 2019
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had nothing but praise for "the compatriots in the south" at the start of 2019, speaking of "the united strength of the fellow countrymen."
Making predictions about a country as insular and cryptic as North Korea is often ill-advised, but it seems likely that such warmth towards South Korea will be absent in Kim's upcoming New Year's address.
It's a dramatic about-face considering just last year, South Korean President Moon Jae-in was driving in an open top car with Kim Jong Un through the streets of Pyongyang, addressing thousands of cheering North Koreans and visiting the sacred Mount Paektu with Kim, realizing a "long unfulfilled dream," as Moon put it.
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