Venezuela's Maduro declared winner in disputed vote
Vanessa Buschschlüter
President Nicolás Maduro has won Venezuela's presidential election, according to partial results announced by the electoral council.
The head of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Elvis Amoroso - who is a close ally of Mr Maduro - said that with 80% of ballots counted, President Maduro had 51% of the vote, compared to 44% for his main rival.
The Venezuelan opposition dismissed the CNE's announcement as fraudulent and promised to challenge the result.
It said its candidate, Edmundo González, had won with 70% of the votes and insisted he was the rightful president-elect.
Girls as young as nine gang-raped by paramilitaries in Sudan – report
Human Rights Watch accuses RSF militia of ‘countless’ cases of rape and torture in Khartoum in 15-month civil war
Gunmen from a notorious militia roamed Sudan’s capital gang-raping “countless” women and girls, some as young as nine, according to an investigation documenting the shocking prevalence of sexual violence in Khartoum during the country’s civil war.
Some of the attacks by members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) were so brutal that women and girls died “due to the violence associated with the act of rape”, according to the research by Human Rights Watch (HRW).
North Korea: Kim's daughter being trained to succeed him
South Korean media reported on Monday that the leader of North Korea was having his oldest daughter officially trained to take over for him one day.
What do know so far?
Yonhap news agency, citing the National Intelligence Service, said Kim Ju Ae was receiving training after having been seen with her father on several public outings in the last few years.
The family of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is notoriously secretive, and little is known about his wife Ri Sol Ju and their three children, of which Kim Ju Ae is reportedly the middle.
Indeed, the name of the heir apparent is only known in the West from reports by American basketball player Dennis Rodman, who was allowed to visit Kim in 2013. Kim Ju Ae is believed to be 11 or 12 years old.
Far-left extremists likely behind France rail sabotage, interior minister says
Far-left extremists were likely behind last week's arson attacks on France's high-speed train network, heavily disrupting travel just hours before the Olympic Games opening ceremony, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said Monday. All trains are now back up and running after teams worked around the clock over the weekend to fix the damage.
France is leaning towards the likelihood that far-left extremists were behind last week's sabotage of the country's SNCF rail network – which coincided with the Olympic Games opening ceremony – French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said on Monday.
"We have identified the profiles of several people," Darmanin told France 2 TV, regarding the hunt for those saboteurs.
Far-left French anarchists have a history of targeting the train network with arson attacks.
The attacks were "deliberate, very precise, extremely well-targeted", Darmanin said. "This is the traditional type of action of the ultra left," he said.
Quad 'seriously concerned' about situation in South China Sea
The foreign ministers of the United States, Japan, Australia and India on Monday expressed "serious concern" over the situation in the South China Sea in a veiled rebuke to Beijing.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his counterparts in the so-called Quad grouping issued a joint statement calling for a "free and open" Pacific after talks in Tokyo.
The statement did not name China directly but referenced a series of recent confrontations between Chinese and Philippine vessels in the disputed South China Sea.
War of words as Erdogan says Turkey could intervene in Israel’s war on Gaza
Turkey is again comparing Netanyahu to Hitler, while threatening more than a trade ban for the first time.
A war of words has broken out between Israel and Turkey after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened his country could intervene militarily in Israel’s war on Gaza.
Turkish and Israeli officials unleashed barbs at one another on Sunday and Monday after Erdogan said in a speech on Sunday that “there is no reason” that Turkey could not act, noting military interventions made in the past in other countries.
While crude rhetoric between the two countries has been regular amid the war in Gaza, the threats and insults come as fears of a wider escalation rise once again.
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