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Image copyright Reuters A witness in Julian Assange's extradition hearing will claim President Donald Trump offered the Wikileaks founder a pardon if he said Russia was not involved in leaking emails during the US election.Assange's barrister revealed the claim at Westminster Magistrates' Court ahead of an extradition hearing next week.District Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled the witness's evidence admissible.The White House said the claim is "a complete fabrication and a total lie".Assange is facing extradition to the US on 18 charges over leaked diplomatic cables.He faces up to 175 years in prison if found guilty.His barrister, Edward Fitzgerald QC, told the…

Image copyright Getty Images A New York City-based fashion college has apologised after a catwalk show was labelled racist.Models were asked to wear prosthetic ears, lips and bushy eyebrows for a collection run by fashion design students at the event in Manhattan.The accessories were heavily criticised online after an African-American model said she would not wear the "clearly racist" items.The Fashion Institute of Technology said the matter was being investigated."Currently," its president Joyce F Brown said in a statement, "it does not appear that the original intent of the design, the use of accessories or the creative direction of the…

Image copyright Getty Images The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will formally step down as senior royals from 31 March, a spokesperson for the couple has said. They will no longer carry out duties on behalf of the Queen but arrangements will be reviewed after 12 months. Earlier this year Harry and Meghan announced they would be stepping back from royal duties and working to become financially independent. They will return to the UK for engagements at the end of this month. The couple intend to split their time between the UK and North America and the spokesperson said they…

Image copyright Getty Images The US rapper Pop Smoke has been killed, after an apparent armed robbery. Los Angeles Police told Radio 1 Newsbeat a man was shot at his home and later pronounced dead, although didn't confirm his identity. But his label Republic Records says it's "devastated by the unexpected and tragic loss of Pop Smoke".Police responded to reports of a robbery - a man was then taken to hospital and later pronounced dead. Officers confirmed that an unknown number of suspects entered a property in West Hollywood. They got a call about a robbery at 04:55 PST and…

A video has emerged which shows the Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in prison.He was arrested in 2016 and was found guilty at his drug trafficking trial in 2019, at a federal court in New York.He stood trial for drug trafficking charges after successfully evading US and Mexican authorities for years and escaping from prison in Mexico on two occasions - once using an underground tunnel.Read more: El Chapo: Five things to knowRead More

San Francisco's newly minted sheriff said his officers won't help federal authorities deport undocumented immigrants despite increasing pressure from the Trump administration to crack down on people living illegally in U.S. sanctuary cities.Paul Miyamoto, California's first Asian American sheriff, said going after undocumented immigrants seeking solace is not a priority.TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO DEPLOY BORDER PATROL TO SANCTUARY CITIES TO HELP ICE CATCH ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS "Our department is not involved in immigration enforcement," he told KTVU2. "We feel that it is a federal matter, and our realm of interest is public safety, and you can't really have a safe community if the community members…