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US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump.  After months of resisting efforts to impeach from her rank and file, more than two-thirds of her caucus now favor impeaching Trump - including several first-term Democrats in swing districts that Trump won in 2016.  The tipping point is revelations that Trump contacted the government of Ukraine and appeared to threaten to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars of aid unless Ukraine provided (non-existent) damaging information against former Vice President and 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son.  Trump claims he is going to release an "unredacted" and "declassified" transcript of his conversation with Ukraine's leader that he says will prove his innocence.

The UK Supreme Court said Boris Johnson was wrong to suspend Parliament, stopping just short of accusing the UK PM of lying to Queen Elizabeth II.  "It is impossible for us to conclude, on the evidence which has been put before us, that there was any reason - let alone a good reason - to advise Her Majesty to prorogue Parliament for five weeks, from 9th or 12th September until 14th October," justices said, upholding a Scottish Supreme Court ruling that plainly said Johnson lied.  Critics have maintained that Johnson prorogued Parliament to limit debate on his drive to take the UK out of the European Union on 31 October with or without a deal in place to cushion the economic and social chaos that the government's own report expects.  Parliament's Speaker John Bercow welcomed the Supreme Court decision and called MPs back into session on Wednesday.  Leaders of the major parties are urging Johnson to resign.

And the Supreme Court in Spain ruled that long-time fascist dictator Francisco Franco's remains can be removed from his tomb at the Valley of the Fallen near Madrid, the memorial to those who died in the Spanish Civil War.  "This is good news for the Spanish people, out of respect for the victims on both sides, so that our coexistence can be fully free and ethical," said Spanish acting Vice President Carmen Calvo, whose governing Socialist Party had long sought to move Franco's remains to stop the site from being a monument to Franco's far-right, authoritarian rule.  So authoritarian in fact, that some of the remains of fighters from the losing Republican side were forcibly transferred there against the wishes of the families to make the memorial appear more inclusive - Franco didn't just imprison his enemies, he imprisoned their dead bodies as well.

An earthquake struck Pakistan, killing 19 people near the Kashmiri city of Mirpur in Punjab province.  The shaking was felt in Lahore and Islamabad.

A doctor and nurse in South Korea have been charged with professional negligence for performing an abortion on a young woman who had come into their clinic for another reason.  The two "acknowledged their fault", mixing up patient records and failing to confirm the woman's identity before the termination.  Abortion is still illegal in South Korea except for cases of rape and incest, but the Supreme Court earlier had ruled that the ban is unconstitutional and ordered the government to revise existing laws by 31 December 2020.

German prosecutors charged Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess and the Chairman Hans Dieter Potsch with stock market manipulation tied to the automaker's diesel emissions scandal.  The company in 2015 admitted that it had rigged millions of diesel cars worldwide to cheat on emissions tests - but prosecutors said they didn't inform shareholders in a timely fashion of the details which impacted VW's share price at the time.  Additional charges ties to the scandal were also announced against former CEO Martin Winterkorn.

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Earlier this week, Greek police arrested a man on a cruise ship on suspicion of being one of the terrorists in a notorious 1985 hijacking drama - but it turned out that it was just another 65-year old guy named Mohammed Saleh and they released him. 

Even though almost three and a half decades have passed, authorities still want to catch the perpetrators:  Amid the Lebanese Civil War of the '80s, hijackers believed to be Hezbollah militants took control of TWA Flight 847 shortly after take off from Athens, Greece.  They forced it on an intercontinental drama from airport to airport around the Mediterranean Sea, killing one passenger.  The photograph of one of the hijackers holding a gun to the dead of Captain John Testrake as he leaned out of the 717-200's cockpit window provoked outrage around the world, even as Testrake was regarded as a hero for his calm demeanor.  The rest of the passengers and crew survived and were released, but only one of the terrorists was caught and jailed.  Their demands were apparently met - Israel released hundreds of Shi'ite prisoners in the weeks afterward, denying it was linked to the hijacking.