Today In World News:
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| Courtesy of The Intercept |
- The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, was caught on tape on Wednesday urging four European leaders to help him undermine a provision of a European Union trade agreement that imposes an obligation on Israel to respect the rights of the millions of Palestinians it rules in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
- Jeff Sessions and the US Justice Department revived a federal program that gives state and local law enforcement more power to seize property from people who haven’t been charged, let alone convicted, of a crime.
- Jared Kushner's status as a top aide to President Donald Trump was used to lure Chinese investors to his family's New Jersey development, even after his family's company apologized for mentioning his name during a sales pitch in May.
- U.S. allies in eastern Europe and Ukraine are worried that Russia's military exercises in September could be a "Trojan horse" aimed at leaving behind military equipment brought into Belarus.
- Many Venezuelan streets were barricaded and deserted as millions joined the 24-hour shutdown, staying at home, closing businesses or manning roadblocks in a civil disobedience campaign against President Maduro in hopes will end nearly two decades of socialist rule.
- 6 teenagers from a Burundi robotics team have been reported missing after an international competition in Washington and two of them were seen entering Canada.
- The Palestinian group Hamas has warned Israel against crossing a "red line" at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
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