July 19, 2022: Trial of Trump ex-adviser Bannon opens, Kansas abortion vote, UK heatwave, Russia, China, Pelosi, Taiwan

1. Federal prosecutors are due to start presenting their case in the trial of Steve Bannon, a prominent former presidential adviser to Donald Trump, on charges of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the committee investigating last year's attack on the U.S. Capitol.

2. A fight over abortion access in Middle America is roiling the hills and plains of Kansas, where voters will decide whether the state's constitution should go on protecting the right to terminate a pregnancy.

3. Britain recorded its highest ever temperature of 40C (104F) as a heatwave gripping Europe intensified, scorching fields and damaging airport runways and train tracks.

4. A senior Russian security official said that peace in Ukraine when it came would be on Moscow's terms as Russian forces struck targets across the country with missiles even as their ground offensive stuttered.

5. China's government warned it would take "forceful measures" if U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, after the Financial Timessaid she would go to the Chinese-claimed island next month.

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