Fugitive businessman taken into US custody in Venezuela bribery case

Trump considers joining Saudi attacks on Iran's Houthi allies in Yemen after a week of Houthi strikes kills 20 people, including an American, at Riyadh's airport.

The film dropped by around 60% in its second weekend, and could become one of Hollywood's biggest flops.

The concerts of several singers accused of supporting the regime of deposed president Bashar al-Assad have been cancelled this summer in Syria. People in Homs ripped down posters advertising performances by artists Mohamad Iskandar and Hossam Jneed, denouncing their previous links with the regime. One of the musicians later publicly apologised.

Mohammed El-Kurd is a Palestinian writer, poet and journalist. He is the author of the poetry collection Rifqa and the book "Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal", which was just published in French translation last week. Mohammed grew up in Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem and as a child, his family were displaced from their home by Israeli settlers in a high-profile eviction. He spoke to us in Perspective.