Today In World News: July 10, 2017

Today In World News:

Courtesy of Al-Jazeera

• A fresh wave of violence has forced 40,000 more people to flee from their homes in the Central African Republic (CAR), bringing the number of refugees in the country's east to 100,000, an NGO says. A peace deal was signed by 13 of the country’s 14 armed groups in June, but violence erupted on the same day.

• Contradicting an earlier claim made by the president, the White House said President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed sanctions related to Russia’s election interference during their meeting last week.

• Haider al-Abadi announces 'collapse' of ISIL caliphate as US-led coalition says Iraqi troops have firm control of Mosul.

• The Trump Administration on Monday congratulated the prime minister of Iraq on the liberation of Mosul, the city in northern Iraq that has served as a stronghold for the Islamic State of Iraq & Syria (ISIS) since 2014.

• A Palestinian man has been shot dead after he allegedly rammed his vehicle into a group of Israeli soldiers, injuring one, near a settlement in the occupied West Bank.

• In the 10 days following Donald Trump's election, the Southern Poverty Law Center recorded 867 hate incidents.  Group documents 330 bias incidents on US college and university campuses from late November 2016 to March 2017.

• Donald Trump Jr. was told before his meeting with a Russian lawyer that the damaging information promised about Hillary Clinton was part of a Russian government effort to help his father's presidential campaign. 

• President Donald Trump's son has hit back at US media reports of his meeting with a Russian lawyer who said she had damaging material about Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump Jr denied issuing inconsistent statements about last year's meeting. He also suggested it was normal practice to receive information about a political opponent.

• The president of the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) reportedly said that the Trump White House asked him to criticize another reporter's article, a request he declined.

• Palestinians brace for new West Bank settlements as construction began at Amichai, raising fresh fears over land restrictions and settler violence.

• Jared Kushner, son-in-law and senior adviser to President Donald Trump, unsuccessfully sought a financing deal from a wealthy Qatari investor to save his family’s troubled midtown Manhattan building. Kushner tried to negotiate with Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, a billionaire and former prime minister of Qatar known as HBJ, for half a billion dollars to help refinance Kushner Companies’ flailing investment in the building at 666 Fifth Avenue. 

• A U.S. Army sergeant who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and is now stationed in Hawaii has been arrested on charges of providing material support to Islamic State extremists.

• The American Civil Liberties Union is suing President Trump's vote fraud commission, charging that the body isn't following federal law requiring it to be open to the public. The lawsuit joins a growing number concerning the commission that have been filed by civil liberties groups in recent days.