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By Lauren TurnerBBC News
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned Russia that invading Ukraine would be "disastrous" and a "painful, violent and bloody business".
Speaking as the Foreign Office pulled some embassy staff out of Ukraine, the PM said the situation was "pretty gloomy" but war was not inevitable.
He said the UK was "leading on creating a package of economic sanctions" against Russia and was supplying defensive weaponry to Ukraine.
Nato is putting forces on standby.
A video obtained by the Guardian appearing to show Egyptian police torturing detainees in a Cairo police station confirms the extent to which officers appear able to inflict violence on civilians with near total impunity, according to human rights groups.
The video, covertly recorded by a detainee through a cell door, appears to show two inmates hung in stress positions. The detainees are naked from the waist up and suspended from a metal grate by their arms, which are fastened behind their backs.
“Watch how they are torturing us and our colleagues. They came and told us we’re next,” one detainee says. Addressing the Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi he says: “Mister president, we want to ask why the police in el-Salam First police station are doing this to us.”
The medic faces the prospect of legal action and losing his job after trying to sell the image for £2,050
Matt Mathers
A French surgeon who attempted to sell an X-ray of a patient who was shot in the 2015 Bataclan terror attack in Paris faces potential legal action and the sack.
Senior orthopaedic surgeon Emmanuel Masmejean, who practises at the Georges Pompidou public hospital in the capital's southwest, tried to sell the scan as a digital artwork of the patient, without their consent, on the OpenSea website, Mediapart reported on Saturday.
OpenSea is a website that specialises in the sale of so-called non-fungible tokens (NFTs), a new form of digital investment that uses blockchain technology to ensure they cannot be copied.
President Roch Marc Christian Kabore was said to have been detained following reports of gunfire near his home. This comes after mutinous soldiers seized a military base, stoking concerns about a military coup.
Burkina Faso's President Roch Marc Christian Kabore has been detained in the capital, Ouagadougou, by mutinying soldiers, security sources and soldiers in the country reported on Monday.
The news was confirmed by DW's West Africa correspondent Amaka Okoye, who said the detention of the president appeared to have occurred amid some violence.
"There definitely must have been a struggle, because there were armored vehicles ... from the presidency that were shot at," she said.
The armed group continues to gain strength in the war-torn country after its defeat in 2019, analysts say.
A brazen ISIL attack on a prison in northeast Syria and the ensuing five days of fighting with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is a stark reminder of the armed group’s growing strength, analysts say.
The complex operation saw two car bombs detonate outside a prison holding more than 3,000 ISIL (ISIS) detainees in conjunction with 200 assailants cutting off neighbourhood routes in Hasakeh city and attacking a nearby military base.
By Eric Cheung and Brad Lendon, CNN
Updated 0816 GMT (1616 HKT) January 24, 2022
China sent 39 warplanes into Taiwan's air defense identification zone (ADIZ) on Sunday, Taiwan's Defense Ministry said, the largest such incursion this year.
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