World News Update, what you need to know

Indonesia's attorney-general says he will not wait for Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran's lawyers to enter a fresh legal challenge of their death penalties before setting a date for their executions.

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THE HAGUE - The Dutch government has released dozens of documents about the aftermath of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, but much of the information has been redacted.

LOS ANGELES - A South Carolina judge has sentenced fugitive mother Dorothy Barnett, who kidnapped her baby daughter two decades ago and lived a secret life in Australia, to 21 months' jail.

WASHINGTON - The White House has pushed back against claims that US hostage Kayla Jean Mueller was killed by a coalition airstrike the Islamic State group in Syria.

PUTRAJAYA - Australia has joined a chorus of countries questioning the jailing of Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.

NEW YORK - Nearly 4000 black victims were lynched in 12 states in the southern United States from 1877 to 1950, an average of more than one a week for 73 years, a new study has revealed.

LONDON - Angelina Jolie has said "there is no stable future for a world in which crimes committed against women go unpunished" as she opened the UK's first academic centre on women, peace and security.