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The New York Time says President Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon has been ordered to testify before a grand jury as part of an investigation into alleged Russian interference in the presidential election. Nick Bryant is in Washington. It comes just weeks after Steve Bannon was quoted in the bestselling book Fire and Fury, describing a meeting in 2016 between Donald Trump Jr. and a Kremlin-linked Russian lawyer is treasonous and unpatriotic. Robert Muller has interviewed at least a dozen of administration officials as part of his investigation into possible Russia collusion, but none was served with a subpoena. Steve Bannon who was forced last week to step down from his post in the right-wing website Breitbart News, has tried to qualify his remarks about the 2016 meeting in the face of an onslaught from the president. Mr. Trump has mocked him a sloppy Steve and claimed he had lost his mind.

The Trump administration has suspended more than half of its funding to the UN egency supporting Palestinians. The US has informed UNRWA that would deliver 60 million dollars of this year's first instalment, but the remaining amount of 65 million dollars is being withheld for future consideration.

Doctors treating the 13 siblings rescued from a house in California, say they are being cooperative and friendly and hopeful their lives will now get better. One pediatrician said the children would need long-term psychological care. James Cook reports. The 17-year-old-girl escaped from her home through a window before dawn on Sunday. She had taken a deactivated mobile phone form inside the house and managed to use it to call the police. When they arrived, they found her 12 brothers and sisters, some shackled to their beds with chains and padlocks, the home dark and foul smelling. Officers say the siblings were small, dirty and malnourished and were shocked to discover the seven were actually adults. They are now said to be doing well in hospital. A doctor described them as friendly，cooperative and hopeful the life will now improve. The authorities in Perris say they have no prior contact with the Turpins who moved into the property in 2014 and apparently schooled their children at home.

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