News in Brief

Date: 10 November 2021 - 21:29

News ID: ۹۶۴۴۳

WASHINGTON (Al-Jazeera) - A federal judge has rejected former president Donald Trump’s request to block the release of documents to the House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot. Denying a preliminary injunction, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said that Congress had a strong public interest in obtaining records that could shed light on a violent insurrection mounted by the former president’s supporters. She added that President Joe Biden had the authority to waive executive privilege over the documents despite Trump’s assertions otherwise.

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PARIS (France 24 ) - The family of a young Kenyan mother allegedly murdered by a British soldier almost a decade ago is planning to sue the army to demand answers over her death, their lawyers said on Wednesday.
The body of Agnes Wanjiru, 21, was found in 2012 after she reportedly went out partying with British soldiers at a hotel in the central town of Nanyuki, where the UK army has a permanent garrison. Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper reported last month that a soldier confessed to killing Wanjiru and showed comrades where he dumped her body in a septic tank behind the hotel.

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YANGON (Reuters) - An American journalist detained in military-ruled Myanmar accused of incitement is facing new charges of sedition and terrorism, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Danny Fenster, 37, who was managing editor of Frontier Myanmar, a top independent news site, was detained at Yangon’s international airport in May as he attempted to take a flight out of the country. It was not immediately clear what Fenster was accused of in regard to the new charges, which are the most serious levelled against him.

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MADRID (Reuters) - New cascades of red-hot lava tumbled into the Atlantic Ocean off Spain’s La Palma on Wednesday morning, sending up plumes of white smoke and extending a platform of volcanic rock created by earlier flows. The stream of molten rock from the Cumbre Vieja volcano, which began erupting in mid-September, reached the water near the popular surf spot of Los Guirres beach just before 2 a.m, according to the Transport Ministry.

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LIMA (Reuters) - Protesters in Peru’s Cotabambas province have blocked once again a key mining corridor used by the huge MMG Ltd’s Las Bambas copper mine, despite a preliminary agreement to keep the road free, a community leader said. Victor Limaypuma, the President of the Cotabambas Defense Front, told Reuters the protest was taking place because there were scheduled talks set for Tuesday, but the government and the mine failed to send senior representatives. The blockade is the first protest since Peru’s socialist government and the Cotabambas province reached a tentative agreement on Oct. 27 to engage in formal talks.