India, China accuse each other of firing shots at tense border
Beijing accuses New Delhi of 'severe military provocation' but India denies its soldiers crossed the disputed border.
China and India have accused each other of firing shots on their flashpoint Himalayan border in a further escalation of military tension between the nuclear-armed Asian rivals.
The relationship between the two countries has deteriorated since a hand-to-hand combat clash in the Ladakh region on June 15 in which 20 Indian troops were killed.
Experts fear the latest incident will intensify a months-long standoff between the Asian giants that erupted in late April.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe faces new charge, Iranian media reports
State TV says British-Iranian dual national appeared in Tehran court on Tuesday
The British-Iranian dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe faces a new, unspecified charge, according to a report on Iranian state TV, which also said she had appeared in court on Tuesday morning.
The report did not elaborate beyond saying Zaghari-Ratcliffe has appeared before a branch of the country’s revolutionary court in Tehran, where she was first sentenced in 2017.
Labour MP Tulip Siddiq said she had spoken to Zaghari-Ratcliffe who confirmed she was taken to court on Tuesday morning and told she was facing another trial on Sunday.
Mulan: Disney condemned for filming in China's Xinjiang province
China is believed to have detained more than a million people from mostly Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang province
Disney has been criticised for filming the Mulan remake in a Chinese province where the government is accused of human rights abuses in its detention camps.
The film’s final credits give a “special thanks” to a public security bureau in Turpan, Xinjiang, which runs China's "re-education" camps where Muslim Uighurs are held in detention, according to the BBC.
It also thanks a publicity department that is reportedly responsible for producing state propaganda in the region.
Belarus protest leader Kolesnikova detained at Ukraine border
Opposition activist Maria Kolesnikova is reportedly being held in Belarus after resisting a forced deportation to Ukraine. Local media said that she tore up her passport at the border.
Belarusian opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova was held in Belarus on Tuesday after resisting a forced deportation to Ukraine, according to officials in Kyiv.
Kolesnikova disappeared in Minsk on Monday after she was seen being bundled into a minibus.
Two of her aides were also seized, the opposition Coordination Council said. They were press secretary, Anton Rodnenkov, and executive secretary, Ivan Kravtsov.
Syria Kurds transfer some IS-linked foreign families from camp
Syrian Kurds have started to transfer the "least radical" foreign women and their children linked to the Islamic State group out of an overcrowded in northeast Syria to begin rehabilitation, an official said Tuesday.
So far 76 families have been transferred since July from Al-Hol to the Roj camp at their request after showing remorse over their ties to the jihadist group, Kurdish official Sheikhmous Ahmed told AFP.
He did not give their nationalities, but Kurdish authorities say foreigners in Al-Hol hail from around 50 countries.
Cheng Lei: China says journalist 'endangered national security'
An Australian journalist detained in China for weeks is being held on national security grounds, China has said.
Cheng Lei, a presenter for China Global Television Network (CGTN), is suspected of "criminal activity endangering China's national security".
She has been detained since 14 August.
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