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The UN says credible reports suggest that up to a million Muslim Uighurs are held in detention camps. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2PUJJf9

French actor Gérard Depardieu is accused of rape and sexual assault - accusations he denies. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2wsF4c5

A "stay-away message" was reportedly conveyed to Sarah Palin via McCain family intermediaries. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2PSPrhA

A young MP facing treason charges is allegedly detained while attempting to board a plane. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2wuUg8p

Central bank raises benchmark interest rate in an effort to stabilise the country's financial crisis. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2LAbd6h

"This is a justifiable homicide all day long," says a Florida sheriff about the shooting. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2C0VU6Z

Japan's space agency sets dates for its plan to explore the surface of an asteroid with robots. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2PhwP9M

The French president causes an outcry as he pokes fun at attitudes to his economic reforms. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2N27JOt

One of Belgium's top football TV presenters is charged with being an accomplice to an armed robbery. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2NytToH

The Arizona senator and the former vice-president shared a decades-long friendship. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2opOXms

Some businesses in India have found that catering to the LGBT community makes financial sense. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2PkzZJE

Susan Greene was arrested as she used her phone to record police detaining an African American. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2Pkjaii

JJ Zhou took on a fiendish cycling challenge on the world's highest mountain. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2NC2pyG

A mountain lake is being re-stocked with trout from the air by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2PPH2LJ

A Canadian university has developed a tablet with a flexible screen that can rolled up. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2NyuA1l

Luckin Coffee, a new chain in China where customers must pay by app, is taking on traditional cafes. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2MYjA06

Cameroon's Norbert Owona, homeless for two years, thanks Samuel Eto'o for promising him a new house. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2PRs5bR

The rap star also apologises for saying slavery "sounds like a choice". from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2wt5evr

One historian suggests in a new book that the ravages of World War Two might have contributed. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2Pm5AL3

A minister's decision to personally intervene in a visa case is attracting national attention. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2or6hqZ

Chinese government investigators say certain investment companies are faking box office results. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2wv3oKd

Iosif Kobzon was the soundtrack to the lives of many Russians but had a controversial career. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2LHKRPL

The issue has heated up online and people are staging protest rallies against the arrests. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2LDapxu

As wildfires scorched California yet again this summer, Jose Dariush Leal da Costa, a Bay Area native with Portuguese roots, was harvesting his first almonds in a sun-drenched, watery oasis in southern Portugal. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2wtck2W

While China meets African leaders at a major summit in Beijing next week, the king of eSwatini, self-ruled Taiwan's last remaining ally on the continent, will be hosting thousands of people at a traditional Reed Dance ceremony. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2osJ085

Kremlin said on Friday it did not rule out the possibility that Russian President Vladimir Putin could hold talks with U.S. President Donald Trump at three summits due to take place in 2018, including those in Singapore, France and Argentina. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2wBTN4H

A Cambodian court jailed an Australian filmmaker for six years on Friday after finding him guilty of espionage for flying a drone over an opposition party rally. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2PQwMCR

Japan's military wants record spending next year to help pay for major upgrades to defenses designed to shoot down North Korean ballistic missiles that Tokyo sees as a continued threat despite Pyongyang's promise to abandon nuclear weapons. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2wtqctN

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has had to strip one minister of her portfolio and had another step aside in less than a week, capping off a month of challenges for the popular premier since her return from maternity leave. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2PQSu9V

The Catholic church in Australia on Friday rejected laws forcing priests to report child abuse when they learn about it in the confessional, setting the stage for a showdown between the country's biggest religion and the government. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2Pnggcj

President Rodrigo Duterte has said graft and illicit drugs were so entrenched in the Philippines that if he were not around, it would be better off run by a dictator such as late strongman Ferdinand Marcos. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2N1Tl96

At dawn, high on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, a Buddhist monk in saffron robes chants blessings over limber athletes preparing to run 100 kilometers across sand dunes, rivers and ravines. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2PTk1HR

Twitter comments by U.S. President Donald Trump accusing China of hacking former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's email server are an attempt to cast China as a "scapegoat", the official China Daily said in an editorial Friday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2PR9yMU

Australia has arrested and charged a Sri Lankan man with planning a terror attack after finding "symbolic locations within Sydney" listed as possible targets in his notebook, police said on Friday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2NyUDFL

Brazil's business-friendly presidential candidate Geraldo Alckmin unveiled a campaign ad against gun violence on Thursday that targeted his far-right pro-gun adversary Jair Bolsonaro. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2NAdK1W

In a mountain village in southwest China's Sichuan province, authorities have demolished seven small dam projects this year along a river to clear illegal developments in a new nature reserve. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2Nb0YdD