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North Korea fires ballistic missile: South’s military

‘Unidentified’ weapon fired into sea east of peninsula, say Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff

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Ex-Nazi death camp secretary who fled trial to face court

Irmgard Furchner is 1st woman to be prosecuted for Nazi-era crimes in decades

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US college coach, assistants fired over vaccine refusal

Nick Rolovich loses US$3.2 mil a year job as deadline for mandate expires

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US Justice Dept asks Supreme Court to block Texas abortion law

Biden administration says it is clearly unconstitutional, violates Roe v Wade ruling

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Court finds Colombia responsible for rape and torture of journalist

Acts against Jineth Bedoya could not have happened without consent, collaboration of state, says ruling

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Trump sues to keep records on Capitol attack secret

Ex-president claims executive privilege to stop former aides from giving evidence to Congress

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Myanmar to free over 5,000 anti-coup protesters

This comes after more than 2,000 rally-goers, including journos critical of junta, released from prisons in July

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1 killed in second shooting at US varsity within a week

Overnight curfew imposed until further notice at Louisiana’s Grambling State University

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Colin Powell dies of Covid-19 complications

Retired 4-star general, former chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff served four presidents

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3 white Americans go on trial in death of black jogger

Gregory, Travis McMichael and neighbour William Bryan contend they mistook Ahmaud Arbery for burglar

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Singapore expands no-quarantine scheme for fully vaxxed travellers

Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and US added to list

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Iran MP says to resume nuclear talks, awaits EU confirmation

No immediate confirmation from EU hosts however

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US offers to pay relatives of 10 killed in botched Afghan drone strike

Pentagon says also working to relocate to US any of them who wish to leave Afghanistan