United Arab Emirates Haute couture designer Iris Van Herpen opens up about her life, work and fashion
Saudi Arabia UN calls for probe into claims Saudi prince hacked Jeff Bezos' phone "The information we have received suggests the possible involvement of the Crown Prince in surveillance of Mr Bezos, in an effort to influence, if not silence, The Washington Post's reporting on Saudi Arabia," the experts said in a statement. 22/01/2020
USA D.C. attorney general charges Trump inaugural committee enriched the family business A lawsuit says the improper expenditures included $300,000 for a private party for the president's children. 22/01/2020
USA Bloomberg jumps to fourth place in new national poll The former NYC mayor is pursuing a different path to the White House than other candidates — and spending big. 22/01/2020
USA Start to Senate impeachment trial devolves into partisanship First Read is your briefing from "Meet the Press" and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter. 22/01/2020
USA Tulsi Gabbard sues Hillary Clinton for defamation over 'Russian asset' remark Clinton said during a podcast interview last fall that one of the Democratic candidates is "the favorite of the Russians," leading Gabbard to lash out. 22/01/2020
World 'Stagnating' European democracy follows year of protest — study The average global score for democracies fell from 5.48 out of 10 in 2018 to 5.44 in 2019 — the lowest since the Democracy Index was created. 22/01/2020
USA Monty Python star Terry Jones dies aged 77 Jones' wife and three children said they had lost "a kind, funny, warm, creative and truly loving man." 22/01/2020
United Kingdom 'Two down, four to go': Monty Python star Terry Jones dies aged 77 From Oxford to Nazareth and beyond, we look at the life of the writer and historian. 22/01/2020
USA Facing economic crisis, Lebanon's new government meets for first time Formed by the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah and its allies, new government faces one of the biggest financial crises in the country's history. 22/01/2020
USA Russia-Poland feud over World War II history clouds Auschwitz anniversary Over the next several days, world leaders will gather twice to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most notorious of Nazi Germany's death camps. 22/01/2020
USA Saudi Arabia denies hacking Jeff Bezos' phone According to reports, the Amazon founder's cellphone was hacked in 2018 after receiving a WhatsApp message from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. 22/01/2020
Switzerland Donald Trump: I'll have a new trade deal with the EU by November "We're going to start negotiating," Trump said at Davos, repeating his familiar mantra that the US has been treated "horribly unfairly" in past deals. 22/01/2020
Greece High court judge becomes Greece's first female president Men dominate the top-level political positions in Greece, so this is a big deal. 22/01/2020
World Davos 2020: Economic gender gap not due to close until ... 2277 The report finds that, despite the gap having closed in recent years, progress is slowing – last year it was estimated that it would be 202 years until full parity was achieved. 22/01/2020
USA China virus toll rises to nine as pandemic fears grow As China vowed to tighten containment measures in hospitals, the World Health Organization was due to hold an emergency meeting later on Wednesday. 22/01/2020
USA Senate passes McConnell impeachment rules The organizing resolution was passed along a party line vote after a nearly 13-hour session. 22/01/2020
USA What happened on Day 1 of Trump's Senate impeachment trial It was a battle over how to fight the war as the trial began in earnest Tuesday. 22/01/2020
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