A court in Myanmar has sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four more years in prison, in the latest of a series of trials.
She was convicted for the illegal possession and import of walkie-talkies and breaking Covid-19 rules.
Ms Suu Kyi was first convicted in December, and given a reduced jail sentence of two years.
She has been detained since a military coup last February and faces about a dozen charges, all of which she denies.
They have been widely condemned as unjust.
It is believed that Monday's charges stem from when soldiers searched her house on the day of the coup by forces led by General Min Aung Hlaing, when they said they discovered the devices.
Monday's trial in the capital, Nay Pyi Taw, was closed to the media and Ms Suu Kyi's lawyers have been barred from communicating with the media and public.
The latest sentence will bring her total prison term to six years.
Last month the Nobel laureate was found guilty of incitement of dissent and breaking Covid-19 rules, in what was condemned as a "sham trial" by UN Human Rights chief Michelle Bachelet.
Human Rights Watch called the legal proceedings a "courtroom circus of secret proceedings on bogus charges... so that (Aung San Suu Kyi) will remain in prison indefinitely".
The statement by the group's deputy Asia director Phil Robertson also accused the military of securing convictions "in a kangaroo court on the flimsiest, politically motivated charges", and claimed it was "running roughshod over the human rights of everyone, ranging from Suu Kyi... to the Civil Disobedience Movements activists on the street."
The military's seizure of power in Myanmar (also called Burma) last February came months after Ms Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) won November 2020 general elections by a landslide.
The military alleged voter fraud in the victory, however independent election observers have said the elections were largely free and fair.
The coup triggered widespread demonstrations and Myanmar's military has cracked down on pro-democracy protesters, activists and journalists.
Ms Suu Kyi is one of more than 10,600 people to have been arrested by the junta since February, and at least 1,303 others killed in the demonstrations, according to the monitoring group Assistance Association for Political Prisoners.
It is believed that if found guilty of all the charges she faces, Ms Suu Kyi could eventually be jailed for life.
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At least 164 people have died in Kazakhstan during violent anti-government protests, according to media reports citing health officials.
If confirmed it would mark a sharp rise from the previous figure of 44 deaths.
Almost 6,000 people have been arrested, including "a substantial number of foreign nationals", Kazakhstan's presidential office said on Sunday.
The demonstrations, triggered by a rise in fuel prices, turned into huge riots as they spread across the country.
They started on 2 January and grew to reflect discontent at the government and former President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who led Kazakhstan for three decades and is still thought to retain significant influence.
Last week, troops from countries including Russia were sent to Kazakhstan to help restore order.
The presidential statement added that the situation had stabilised, with troops continuing "cleanup" operations and guarding "strategic facilities".
A state of emergency and a nationwide curfew remain in place.
Where is it? Kazakhstan shares borders with Russia to the north and China to the east. It is a huge country the size of Western Europe.
Why does it matter? A former Soviet republic which is mainly Muslim with a large Russian minority, it has vast mineral resources, with 3% of global oil reserves and important coal and gas sectors.
Why is it making the news? Fuel riots, which have escalated to become broader protests against the government, have resulted in resignations at the top and a bloody crackdown on protesters.
In the capital, Nursultan, there are obvious signs that security has been tightened, says the BBC's Steve Rosenberg, with the entrance to the city's Presidential Palace blocked.
There is a growing suggestion, our correspondent adds, that the recent violence is linked to a power struggle within Kazakhstan's ruling elite.
Some 103 fatalities in the violence were reportedly in the main city, Almaty.
The security forces said they killed rioters in Almaty while trying to restore order and that protesters had tried to take control of police stations in the city.
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said "20,000 bandits" had attacked Almaty and that he had told security forces to "fire without warning".
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday criticised the president's directive. "The shoot-to-kill order, to the extent it exists, is wrong and should be rescinded," he told ABC News' This Week.
He said the US was also seeking clarification from the Kazakh president on why he had requested the presence of Russian troops.
In another development, neighbouring Kyrgyzstan lodged a protest with the Kazakh ambassador over the detention in Kazakhstan of a Kyrgyz jazz musician, after footage emerged apparently showing him in custody, badly beaten.
Kazakh authorities accuse Vikram Ruzakhunov of participating in the protests, and have paraded him on state television.
Two former deputies to Mr Massimov have also been removed from their posts, the president's office said on Sunday.
Marat Osipov and Daulet Ergozhin had been serving as deputy heads of the country's powerful National Security Committee prior to their removal. Mr Tokayev's office has yet to publicly provide a reason for the sackings.
Leondios Kostrikis, professor of biological sciences at the University of Cyprus has reported his findings to GISAID, the international database that tracks viruses which tracks viruses.
Professor Kostrikis said: "We will see in the future if this strain is more pathological or more contagious or if it will prevail."
Of the 25 reported cases, 11 of those were found in people who had been admitted to hospital.
The new mutatued variant's discovery comes as Boris Johnson recognised the “terrible toll” of coronavirus on the UK.
Official figures released yesterday confirmed more than 150,000 people have now died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19.
A scientist advising the Government said the total passed on Saturday, when an additional 313 deaths were announced, was an “absolute tragedy” made worse because “many of them were avoidable if we had acted earlier in the first and second wave”.
The UK became the seventh country to pass the 150,000 death milestone, following the US, Brazil, India, Russia, Mexico and Peru.
Separate figures from the Office for National Statistics show there have now been 174,000 deaths registered in the UK where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.
Professor Andrew Hayward, who sits on the Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), told BBC Radio 4’s PM programme: “It is absolutely tragic and to think that’s been repeated so many times is awful.
“I think we could have done better. I think some of the deaths are even more tragic for the fact that many of them were avoidable if we had acted earlier in the first and second wave.”
At least seven people have been killed after part of a cliff collapsed onto leisure boats on a Brazilian lake.
Another three are missing and 32 injured following the accident in the south-east of the country.
Video circulating online shows the moment the rock detaches from the cliff face as onlookers try to yell warnings to the boats beneath.
At least one of the boats appears to have sunk, while others managed to escape.
The collapse at 11:00 local time (14:00 GMT) followed days of rain in Minas Gerais state, which had made the cliffs more susceptible to collapse, local fire officials told reporters.
"That piece will fall out," a woman can be heard saying in a video of the accident. "Get out of there," warns another, before the cliff collapses onto the boats.
Three vessels were hit by falling rock, Lieutenant Pedro Aihara told reporters. Out of the 32 injured, nine people were in hospital.
Divers and helicopters are searching the water for any more survivors.
Twenty people were initially reported missing, but Lt Aihara said most were accounted for after checking hospital lists.
Alessandra Barbosa told news outlet EPTV that she is seeking news of her uncles, who were spending the weekend at the site and decided to take a boat tour of the cliff.
"I called local hospitals. So far I haven't had any information about them. We are distressed, very concerned," she said.
"We get nervous because we have no information and it's family, right? Family is everything to us."
Novak Djokovic was sleep-deprived and pressured by Australian officials to cancel his visa after being detained at Melbourne airport, his legal team has argued.
Representatives for the world's top-ranked tennis player say he was given a medical exemption after testing positive for COVID-19 on 16 December.
The tennis star touched down in the country late on Wednesday night, ahead of the start of the Australian Open.
However, he is now embroiled in a row over whether he is exempt from the country's COVID vaccination rules.
The hearing is due to start at 10am on Monday morning (11pm Sunday UK time), after a request by the Home Affairs to delay it to Wednesday was rejected.
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Interrogated for six hours
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After travelling for 25 hours, Djokovic's lawyers say he was interrogated for six hours at the airport before being allowed to go somewhere to sleep - only to be woken by officials half an hour later and pressured into making a decision on cancelling his visa.
Newly released court documents show he believed his exemption was "consistent with the recommendations of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation".
At the start of the interview, just after midnight, an official told him previous infection did not mean he qualified for an exemption.
He responded: "I'm sorry to interrupt, but that's not true."
He added: "I explained that I had been recently infected with COVID in December 2021 and on this basis I was entitled to a medical exemption in accordance with Australian government rules and guidance.
Image:A Djokovic fan outside the detention hotel where he is staying in Melbourne
"I further explained that my medical exemption had been granted by the Independent Expert Medical Review Panel, that I had previously provided all relevant medical reports to TA, including my COVID PCR test results, and that accordingly the visa should not be cancelled."
A timeline of Djokovic's detention
00:21 - 00:51am - Djokovic begins to be interviewed by officials.
4:11am - Officials give notice to cancel Djokovic's visa, and give him 20 minutes to give "any further explanation". Djokovic asks to wait until 8am so he can call Tennis Australia to "figure this out".
5:20am - Officials say they will give him time to rest, until around 8am - 8:30am. The interview is suspended.
5:22 - 6:07am - In this time Djokovic waits on a sofa outside the interview room for a bed to be prepared. He was eventually taken to a room at 5:30am, but was awoken "around 6am" and "pressured" to continue the interview immediately.
7:42am - His visa is officially cancelled.
The documents claim he had received "a letter from the Chief Medical Officer of Tennis Australia recording that he had been provided with a 'Medical exemption from COVID vaccination' on the grounds that he had recently recovered from COVID".
Pressured into cancelling his visa
He asked to be given time to contact his agent and lawyers, however the court documents allege he was pressured into continuing the interview and ultimately agreeing to cancel his visa.
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The documents state: "Mr Djokovic, having formed the view that "[they were] going to cancel [his] visa, it's obvious" relented, feeling he had no choice, and on the basis of an understanding based on what they had said to him that it was better for him if the interview was done right away."
His legal team claim the actions of officials were "spurious and mischievous" adding: "It plainly was not, and would never have been, better for Mr Djokovic if a visa cancellation decision were made while he was unrested and without consulting with his representatives."
Djokovic was left feeling "shock", "surprise" and "confusion" at the actions of officials - as he believed he had properly complied with the law of Australia.
The player's lawyers will get two hours to plead their case after the start of the hearing, but a number of Australian media outlets are already questioning whether some of the court filings back up Djokovic's argument.
According to The Australian newspaper, the pre-entry approval Djokovic said he received was generated on data he provided to the Australian Travel Declaration app which gives a preliminary indication of a visitor's eligibility to enter Australia, but "does not guarantee entry into Australia".
Image:Djokovic has previously spoken about his opposition to vaccination and has repeatedly refused to reveal his vaccine status
Australia's department of Home Affairs was due to file its defence on Sunday. The government department gets two hours to present its defence from 3pm (4am UK time).
Home Affairs was not immediately available for comment about the case it plans to present.
Final decision due
Mr Djokovic is now staying at the Park Hotel, which is doubling up as an immigration detention facility until a final decision about his visa is made.
Image:Djokovic appears to have been photographed with young players the day after lawyers say he tested positive for COVID. Pic: Tennis Association of Serbia
The documents state the Serbian athlete first recorded a positive PCR on 16 December - however, a press release from the Tennis Association of Serbia appears to show Djokovic meeting with young tennis players the next day.
It is unclear if Djokovic knew he had the virus when the pictures were taken.
It took them more than half an hour to get to the other side of the airport fence - but when they did, their two-month-old son was nowhere to be found.
Image:Sohail Ahmadi was just two months old when he went missing
They spent days searching for him and were told he might have been evacuated by himself.
Mr Ahmadi, who had worked as a security guard at the American embassy, was put on an evacuation flight to Qatar with his wife and four other children, eventually landing in the US.
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In November Sohail was finally located in Kabul, in the care of a 29-year-old taxi driver named Hamid Safi who had found him at the airport and took him home to raise as his own.
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It took more than seven weeks of negotiations and pleas, as well as the intervention of Taliban police who detained Mr Safi, to get the man to give Sohail back to his grandmother and other relatives still in Kabul.
The infant's family are now trying to reunite him with his parents and siblings in the US.
Image:Sohail Ahmadi was reunited with his grandmother in Kabul
Mr Safi said he had found Sohail alone and crying on the ground at the airport on the same day he had been separated from his parents.
He said he could not find the baby's family and decided to take him home to his wife and children.
Mr Safi has three daughters but said his mother's greatest wish before she died was for him to have a son.
In November he said he decided: "I am keeping this baby. If his family is found, I will give him to them. If not, I will raise him myself."
Image:Hamid Safi cried as he handed over Sohail to his grandfather Mohammad Qasem Razawi
Mr Safi's neighbours reveal Sohail's location
After a story about the missing child was published in November, some of Mr Safi's neighbours recognised him and posted comments about his whereabouts on a translated version of the article.
Sohail's grandfather, Mohammad Qasem Razawi, said he brought Mr Safi gifts - including a slaughtered sheep and clothing - and asked him to give the child back.
But he said Mr Safi refused.
Eventually, they contacted the Taliban police to report a kidnapping. Mr Safi denied kidnapping Sohail and the complaint was dismissed.
The local police commander held to arrange a settlement, with Mr Razawi agreeing to pay Mr Safi about 100,000 Afghani (£700) for the cost of looking after the child for five months.
The baby's parents said they were overjoyed to see their son again.
"There are celebrations, dance, singing," said Mr Razawi. "It is just like a wedding indeed."
He said Mr Safi and his family were devastated to lose Sohail.
"Hamid and his wife were crying," he said. "I cried too, but assured them that you both are young, Allah will give you male child. Not one, but several.
"I thanked both of them for saving the child from the airport."
Kazakhstan's former intelligence chief has been arrested on suspicion of treason following nationwide anti-government protests.
The detention of Karim Massimov was announced by the National Security Committee, a body he headed until his removal this week.
Authorities now appear to be back in control of the largest city Almaty.
But President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said "terrorist" attacks were still happening in some places.
He made the comments in a phone call with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, who sent hundreds of troops to Kazakhstan this week to help restore order.
President Tokayev has blamed foreign-trained "terrorists" for the unrest, without giving evidence.
The presence of Russian troops has brought criticism from US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who said "one lesson of recent history is that once Russians are in your house, it's sometimes very difficult to get them to leave".
Russia's foreign ministry called Blinken's remarks offensive and responded with sharp words: "When Americans are in your house, it can be difficult to stay alive and not be robbed or raped".
The protests in Kazakhstan began in response to fuel hikes but grew to reflect discontent at the government and former President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who led the country for three decades and is still thought to retain significant influence.
The Interior Ministry says 26 "armed criminals" and 18 security officers were killed in the clashes. More than 4,000 people have been detained, according to the ministry.
The figures have not been independently verified. Phone lines and internet services were down during the protests making establishing a full picture of events difficult.
Kazakh authorities gave no other details about why Mr Massimov was arrested.
On top of his role as head of the intelligence agency, which grew out of the Soviet state security force the KGB, Mr Massimov was a close ally of President Nazarbayev, twice serving as his prime minister.
His arrest has sparked rumours of a power struggle in the Kazakh government, the BBC's Carrie Davies in Moscow reports.
Also this week President Tokayev removed Mr Nazarbayev from his role as head of the influential Security Council, appointing himself in his place.
Kazakhstan: The basics
Where is it? Kazakhstan shares borders with Russia to the north and China to the east. It is a huge country the size of Western Europe.
Why does it matter? A former Soviet republic which is mainly Muslim with a large Russian minority, it has vast mineral resources, with 3% of global oil reserves and important coal and gas sectors.
Why is it making the news? Fuel riots, which have escalated to become broader protests against the government, have resulted in resignations at the top and a bloody crackdown on protesters.
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