Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim announced on Tuesday that lawmakers would be shelving the bill for now, as it requires further scrutiny.

The proposed bill would have pardoned child rapists in sexual assault cases where there was no "force, threat, trick or any other restriction of consent" and where the victim and perpetrator was married, such as with child brides allowed under Islamic law.

"If a 60-year-old man wants to marry a 10-year-old girl and convinces the family of this, will it be considered as the child's consent?" Cigdem Hacisoftaoglu, a volunteer lawyer working at a women's shelter in Istanbul, asked Deutsche Welle. "And if we talk about consent, when is the proper age for someone to give it? Nine? 11? 16? There is also no limit for the [perpetrator's age]."

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday called on China and Latin American countries to strengthen dialogue on global issues and boost cooperation on domestic development, in a bid to better build their community of common destiny on a new starting point in history.

Xi made the remarks while addressing the Peruvian Congress on his first state visit to the country after attending the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Economic Leaders' Meeting in Lima.

Xi proposed that China and Latin America and the Caribbean hold high the banner of peaceful development and cooperation, seek synergy between their development strategies, speed up and upgrade practical cooperation and bring benefits to both peoples.

In his address, the president also elaborated on China-Peru relations, China's stance on international order and China's economic development.

UKIP's Nigel Farage has again accused Downing Street of putting its dislike for him ahead of the national interest after the government dismissed a call from President-elect Donald Trump to make Farage the UK's ambassador to the US.

Writing for the alt-right news website Breitbart, the former editor of which recently became Trump's chief strategist, Farage said: "The world has changed and it's time Downing Street did too."

He added he was in a "good position, with the President-elect's support, to help."

On Monday night, Trump tweeted that Farage would do a "great job" as ambassador, and "many people" wanted to see him as the UK's senior diplomat in Washington.

After the shock of Brexit and then election of Donald Trump to the White House, anything now seems possible in the political world. Six months hence, Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's Front National (FN), will be within reach of the presidency.

It's a possibility that Le Pen is not alone in trumpeting, following Britain's surprise vote to leave the European Union and Trump's equally surprising US victory earlier this month. Last week, incumbent French Prime Minister Manuel Valls acknowledged that the FN leader could be elected the French republic's new president when the country goes to the polls during April-May next year.

The 48-year-old Le Pen, a trained lawyer, is hoping that her bid for Élysée Palace will tap into the zeitgeist of what she calls a "popular uprising against ruling elites".

Her chances of becoming head of state in the EU's second largest member after Germany has just received a further boost from the expected nomination of Francois Fillon as presidential candidate of the center-right Les Republicains party. Fillon is way ahead of his party rival Alain Juppé in the nomination process, which concludes this coming weekend.

While Fillon has adopted Le Pen's agenda of tougher immigration controls, there is a gulf of difference on economic issues, as well as on France's relation to the EU bloc.

Fillon, a prime minister under former President Nicolas Sarkozy (2007-2012), is an economic neoliberal hawk. He proudly claims the late British premier Margaret Thatcher as one of his ideological mentors. Fillon is promising to slash public service jobs and budgets, while also gutting French labor laws to remove statutory caps on maximum working hours and to increase the retirement age.

It is hard to conceive of a more politically tone-deaf candidate for the presidency. This year France has seen months of massive public protests against the very hardline austerity measures that Fillon is advocating.

So, while his tough rhetoric on clamping down on immigration and his socially conservative opposition to gay marriage might appeal to some citizens on the political right, Marine Le Pen appears to be more in tune with concerns of the broader electorate. Those concerns are motivated by economic insecurity and loss of democratic accountability in an era of seemingly implacable financial globalization.

The rise of FN in France and other eurosceptic political parties across Europe is not simply due to xenophobia and racial tensions over immigration. It is arguably much more about counteracting the excesses of a global oligarchy, which the EU and established political parties have come to embody.

Whereas Le Pen wants to follow Britain in quitting the EU altogether to reassert national control over the economy, Fillon has no such ambitions. He is a candidate for globalization and austerity, the very program that has become a totemic hate symbol driving the populist mood for revolt.

The FN has come a long way from its origins when it was considered a bete noire of French and European politics owing to perceived fascist and racist tendencies. Founded in 1993 by Jean-Marie Le Pen, father of Marine, the party would never receive mainstream media coverage. Now it does.

As expected the Government has officially announced that Mobile and fixed line broadband providers in the United Kingdom will soon be forced into the mandatory blocking of all "adult" websites; specifically those that fail to offer an adequate method of age-verification for their visitors.

The new approach, which was first hinted at last month after Claire Perry MP tabled several directly related amendments (here), will be officially introduced as part of a change to the forthcoming Digital Economy Bill 2016-17.

However the idea itself has been on the table since last year (here), which is partly because the Government need a solution to help stop the EU's new Net Neutrality rules from effectively banning network-level blocking systems (here);these are used by ISPs to censor websites, both voluntarily or following a court-order.

The next National Security Advisor of the United States, General Michael T. Flynn, has been successively lauded as one of the most brilliant intelligence officers of his generation, and then reviled as an Islamophobe and a torturer. In the meantime, he opposed President Barack Obama and joined the camp of candidate Donald Trump.

With a load of bad faith, the Clintonian Press describes Michael T. Flynn, the next National Security Advisor of the United States, as an Islamophobe and a partisan of torture. What's the truth behind all this?

Flynn is a Catholic of Irish origin, attached to the stability of his family. He is a dedicated sportsman, and practices both team and individual sports, but prefers sports of movement over sports of force.

The Egyptian Court of Cassation overturned the life sentence and ordered a retrial of former President Mohamed Morsi's espionage case on Tuesday.

Morsi's life sentence and senior Muslim Brotherhood member Khairat el-Shater's death sentence were revoked in a live broadcast on Egyptian television. Retrial was ordered in the case of 20 additional Muslim Brotherhood members accused of 2005-2013 espionage in favor of the Islamist movement, as well as Hamas and Hezbollah.

The three major US stock indices set a record closing on Monday, extending their gains since the US presidential election.

The S&P 500 gained 16.28 points to a historic high of 2198.18 points. The index is now up nearly three percent since November 8, when Donald Trump was elected the 45th US president.

The Dow industrials rose 88.76 points to close at a record high of 18,956.69. The Nasdaq Composite added 47.35 points to 5368.86.

"The post-election rally is continuing," Bucky Hellwig, senior vice president at BB&T Wealth Management in Birmingham, Alabama, told Reuters. Optimism that Trump will ease regulations and reduce taxes "keeps pulling money into the market," he added.

Iraqi medics on Mosul frontline say growing proportion of the patients they treat are non-combatants.

Al-Samah, near Mosul - Four men clung to the black Humvee as it careered toward the east Mosul field hospital. Anguish marked their faces, blood stained their clothes and they cradled between them the broken frames of two slightly built boys - victims of a mortar strike minutes earlier.

A crowd rushed forward to meet the vehicle, helping to lift the casualties on to stretchers under a shroud of settling dust. Matham, 15, was unresponsive - head back, mouth open, gaze unfocused - and an ugly red stain had soaked through his clothes at the neck. A medic placed him on a stretcher, examined his wounds and put two fingers on his carotid artery, searching for a pulse.

The 12-year-old Mohammed lay on a nearby cot. He was conscious, but his right leg was torn open from ankle to groin and dangled sickeningly. A crowd of doctors cut away his trousers then applied a tourniquet to halt the massive blood loss.

French presidential hopeful Francois Fillon is "Vladimir Putin's friend" and intends to "work ardently" with Russia, French media trumpeted after the country was caught unawares by the Republican's victory in the first round of the center-right primary.

During the first primary on Sunday, Fillon, who served as prime minister in Nicolas Sarkozy's government from 2007 till 2012, not only beat his former boss, but also came in first ahead of Alain Juppe, the 71-year-old ex-prime minister and mayor of Bordeaux.