Former president #DonaldTrump welcomed his acquittal in the US Senate #ImpeachmentTrial and said his political movement "has only just begun"
#UPDATE#DonaldTrump survived a second #ImpeachmentTrial when the US Senate could not reach a two-thirds majority to convict him on the charge of incitement of insurrection. Seven Republicans broke ranks to join all 50 Democrats seeking conviction u.afp.com/UTDB
The Senate Republican minority leader #MitchMcConnell says #DonaldTrump was @practically and morally responsible" for provoking the January 6 mob assault on the US Capitol - but still voted to acquit him
#BREAKING 'Democracy is fragile,' Biden says after Trump acquittal
#UPDATES "This sad chapter in our history has reminded us that democracy is fragile. That it must always be defended. That we must be ever vigilant," Biden says as Trump is acquitted in his second impeachment trial u.afp.com/UTzY
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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
#BREAKING Four Ebola deaths in Guinea, the first since 2016: health ministry
#UPDATE Four people have died of #Ebola in #Guinea in the first resurgence of the disease in five years, the country's health minister said u.afp.com/UTKS
#BREAKING Liberia raises surveillance levels after Guinea #Ebola deaths