#BREAKING Top Republican McConnell says will vote to acquit Trump: US media
#BREAKING House prosecutors to call Republican lawmaker to testify at Trump trial
#BREAKING US Senate votes to allow witnesses, prolonging Trump trial
#UPDATE The US Senate voted Saturday to allow the calling of witnesses in Donald Trump's impeachment trial, throwing a wrench into Republican hopes to wrap up proceedings with a swift acquittal of the former president. u.afp.com/UTRY
#UPDATE The US Senate began hearing final arguments on Saturday in the #impeachment trial of #DonaldTrump as the top Republican senator said he would vote to acquit the former president of inciting the deadly January 6 assault on the Capitol u.afp.com/UTRF
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#UPDATE A volley of rockets targeting an airbase in Iraq's Kurdistan region late on Monday killed a foreign civilian contractor and wounded five others and a US soldier, the US-led coalition said u.afp.com/UqJL
#BREAKING Myanmar under 'near-total internet shutdown' for second night in a row: monitor
#BREAKING UN denounces internet shutdown in Myanmar
#UPDATE Myanmar's junta has deployed extra troops around the country and choked the internet for the second night in a row as it intensifies a crackdown on anti-coup protests
#BREAKING Erdogan accuses US of backing 'terrorists' in Iraq
#UPDATE President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday accused the United States of siding with "terrorists" after blaming outlawed Kurdish militants of executing 13 Turks in northern Iraq u.afp.com/UTtC
#BREAKING Turkey summons US envoy over response to Turkish deaths in Iraq
#BREAKING Fresh protests in Myanmar's Yangon after troops deployed: AFP
#UPDATES Hundreds of engineering and technology students gather in the north of Myanmar's largest city of Yangon, following an overnight internet blackout and the deployment of troops on the streets, according to an @AFP photographer
Myanmar's junta cuts the nation's internet and deploys extra troops around the country as fears built of a widespread crackdown on anti-coup protests, but defiant demonstrators again take to the streets u.afp.com/UTzQ