Plus: How Mr Trump's pick for US Secretary of State emboldened a dictator; why Africa's mass ICC "withdrawal" is not all it seems; men fleeing Mosul held in secret detention; boys accused of ISIS links tortured by Kurdish security forces; and cost to civilians as fighting flares in Ukraine again.

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A phone call between US President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called into question a refugee resettlement deal. The call is reportedly said to have been cut short by Mr Trump as Mr Turnbull sought to clarify if 1,250 refugees Australia is holding in offshore detention centres would still be allowed to be resettled in the United States.
Staying with the US, President Trump's pick for Secretary of State, oil chief Rex Tillerson, avoided questions during his confirmation hearing on his role in helping to sustain, enrich and embolden the leader of Equatorial Guinea.
The African Union made headlines this week for purportedly agreeing to mass withdrawal from the International Criminal Court. But the reality is more complex.
Groups within the Iraqi military are screening and detaining men fleeing Mosul in unidentified detention centers where they are cut off from contact with the outside world, HRW warned today.
Efforts to combat child marriage in developing countries like Bangladesh are being hampered in part by the fact that champions of the bid to end the harmful practice, like the UK, allow child marriage themselves.
The US military says it is looking into whether more civilians were killed in a raid on Al Qaeda in Yemen over the weekend. The raid killed a US Navy SEAL and up to another 30 people on the ground, thought to include a number of women and children.
Boys as young as 11 accused of fighting for the Islamic State are being detained and brutally tortured in prisons by security forces belonging to the Kurdish government, HRW has said.
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