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The US Congressional investigation into the deadly assault on the Capitol building says Donald Trump’s former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has agreed to appear before it to make a deposition. The committee chairman says Mr Meadows had already provided records on last January’s incident. The former President has urged his associates to shun the probe.  


Germany’s chancellor elected Olaf Scholz has proposed that parliament should vote on making covid vaccinations compulsory. He says he’d like to see such a measure in place before the end of the winter. More European nations are enforcing vaccination.


4 west African countries have carried out coordinated action against Islamist insurgents. The Defense Minister of Burkina Faso said they’d arrested hundreds of people and seized 150 vehicles as well as weapons, ammunition and drugs. Ghana, Ivory Coast and Togo also took part.


The American novelist Alice Sebold has apologised for her part in the conviction of a man exonerated last week of raping her. Anthony Broadwater has been released after 16 years in prison. Sebold said she was struggling with the role she played within a system that sentences the innocent man to jail. The events formed the basis of a memoir Lucky.  


At the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell for sexual trafficking, her first alleged victim has told a New York court she was assaulted by the convicted sexual abuser Jeffery Epstein the age of 14 while the defendant was in the room. Ghislaine Maxwell denies the charges.


President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has again refused to raise interest rates even after the Turkish Lira hit historical lows. He reiterates his belief, a lower borrowing cost for a strong economy. A former Central Bank deputy governor has called the policy an irrational experiment.
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