World News Update, what you need to know

The CIA's interrogation of al-Qaeda suspects was far more brutal than acknowledged and did not produce useful intelligence, a damning and long-delayed US Senate report says.

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JAKARTA - Indonesian President Joko Widodo has ruled out issuing pardons for any drug convicts on death row, including two Australians being held in Bali.

NEW YORK - A disturbed, knife-wielding man stormed into a New York synagogue shouting "Kill the Jews" and stabbed an Israeli student before being shot dead by police, officials say.

GILZE-RIJEN AIRBASE - A convoy carrying wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 has arrived at a Dutch airbase where it will be reconstructed as part of a probe into the shooting down of the plane.

LISBON - Portuguese police, observed by their British counterparts, are to begin questioning 11 people over the disappearance of three-year-old Madeleine McCann in 2007, a source says.

BAGHDAD - US defence chief Chuck Hagel says he has seen "steady progress" in the war on the Islamic State group, as Iraq appealed for increased military assistance to break the back of the jihadists.

BERKELEY - Hundreds of people have marched through the US city of Berkeley for a third night a row, as activists protest grand jury decisions not to indict white police officers in the deaths of two unarmed black men.