US says Capitol rioters intended to 'capture and assassinate' elected officials
Updated 1548 GMT (2348 HKT) January 15, 2021
Federal prosecutors offered the most chilling description yet of rioters who seized the Capitol last week, writing in a new court filing that the intention was "to capture and assassinate elected officials."
Billionaires backed Republicans who sought to reverse US election results
Guardian analysis shows Club for Growth has spent $20m supporting 42 rightwing lawmakers who voted to invalidate Biden victory
An anti-tax group funded primarily by billionaires has emerged as one of the biggest backers of the Republican lawmakers who sought to overturn the US election results, according to an analysis by the Guardian.
The Club for Growth has supported the campaigns of 42 of the rightwing Republicans senators and members of Congress who voted last week to challenge US election results, doling out an estimated $20m to directly and indirectly support their campaigns in 2018 and 2020, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.
About 30 of the Republican hardliners received more than $100,000 in indirect and direct support from the group.
Deliveroo driver who refused to deliver to Jewish customers jailed for four months in France
‘You have to respect everyone in this country,’ says judge Bertrand Gautier
A Deliveroo driver has been jailed by a French court on charges of discrimination after he refused to deliver meals from two Jewish restaurants in the eastern city of Strasbourg.
Police in Strasbourg said on Monday that two Jewish restaurant owners in the area had filed complaints of racism against the food delivery company.
Following a police investigation, a court convicted the 19-year-old Algerian man on Thursday on an antisemitism charge for refusing to take orders for kosher food.
When and how it all went wrong
Time to reform the Peruvian system
Three decades of misgovernment have led Peruvians to believe that the only way to end the permanent state of crisis is to get all politicians out.
Peru’s Congress finished choosing a new interim president, to loud applause, just after midnight on 16 November 2020. Francisco Sagasti (centre-right) replaced Manuel Merino (far right) who had stepped in just five days earlier to replace Martín Vizcarra (also on the right), deposed in an impeachment vote led by conservatives. Vizcarra had become caretaker in 2018, when former Wall Street banker Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, Peru’s last president elected by popular vote (in 2016), resigned over a bribery scandal. Kuczynski’s immediate predecessors, Ollanta Humala (2011-16), Alan García (2006-11) and Alejandro Toledo (2001-06), were all from the right too.
Opinion: Twitter's Trump ban is no Chinese-style censorship
The schadenfreude in Beijing and among other authoritarian governments about Donald Trump's Twitter ban misses the point, argues DW's Rodion Ebbighausen.
In China and other authoritarian states, Twitter's permanent suspension of Trump's Twitter account confirmed a long-held belief that too much freedom of speech inevitably leads to disaster.
Of course it's not that simple. We are all aware that there are limits to freedom and to freedom of speech. How a society identifies and defines those limits is what matters.
North Korea unveils new submarine-launched missile
North Korea has unveiled a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile, described by state media as "the world's most powerful weapon".
Several of the missiles were displayed at a parade overseen by leader Kim Jong-un, reported state media.
The weapon's actual capabilities remain unclear, as it is not known to have been tested.
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