August 25, 2023

*) Trump surrenders at Fulton County Jail in Georgia election subversion case Former US President Donald Trump has turned himself in to authorities in Fulton County, Georgia to be booked on charges tied to alleged efforts to overturn the state’s results of the 2020 presidential election. He was released on a $200,000 bond nearly 20 minutes after being booked at the county Jail, where he was fingerprinted and had his mugshot taken, becoming the first US president in history to do so. Trump reappeared on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, marking his first post there since January 2021, as he shared an image of his mugshot with the words: "ELECTION INTERFERENCE! NEVER SURRENDER!" The former president faces 13 criminal counts, including violations of the Georgia state RICO Act, solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer, conspiracy to impersonate a public officer and conspiracy to commit false statements. *) Bangladesh protests mark six years since Rohingya exodus Thousands of Rohingya refugees have rallied at camps in Bangladesh to demand their safe return to Myanmar on the sixth anniversary of the 2017 military crackdown. Bangladesh is home to around a million members of the stateless minority, most of whom fled the crackdown now subject to a genocide probe at the International Criminal Court. Malnutrition and violence have continued to plague the camps, which are home to armed groups and are used as staging posts for regional drug trafficking networks. Bangladesh and Myanmar are working on a pilot programme to begin returning the Rohingya to their homes, despite concerns from rights groups who say conditions are not safe for their return. *) Wagner boss Prigozhin’s plane brought down intentionally: US intelligence A preliminary US intelligence assessment has concluded that an intentional explosion caused the plane crash that killed Wagner group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin. One of the US and Western officials who described the initial assessment said it determined that Prigozhin was “ver