Syrian pilot killed when warplane shot down by Israel: source
The pilot of a Syrian warplane which Israel said on Tuesday it had shot down was killed, and the plane crashed in Islamic State-held Syrian territory near the Israeli-occupied Golan heights, a non-Syrian source close to Damascus told Reuters.
Defections hit Nigeria ruling party, Senate president may also quit
Fifteen senators quit Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s ruling party on Tuesday and the country’s third most senior politician said he might follow suit, in a sign of growing rifts in the former military ruler’s restive political camp.
Belgian lawyer launches Trump-inspired anti-EU movement
Two months after Donald Trump’s election, a Brussels lawyer founded a movement to promote the U.S. president’s ideas in Europe but only now has it become a vehicle for Trump’s former strategist Steve Bannon to attack the European Union.
‘A real offer’: UK minister suggests Brexit proposal to EU may be final
Britain has put forward a “real offer” to a win a deal on leaving the European Union by October, Brexit minister Dominic Raab said on Tuesday, suggesting the government would not shift much from its agreed negotiating stance.
Far-right German ‘Reichsbuerger’ numbers surge: intelligence agency
Membership in a network of far-right groups that claim allegiance to the pre-war German Reich surged in 2017, Germany’s domestic intelligence service said, fuelling concerns about the threat of extremist violence.
Bodyguard scandal exposes limits of Macron’s Jupiterian style
The bodyguard scandal rocking France in the heat of summer is turning into a political crisis for President Emmanuel Macron, aggravated by his refusal to explain himself and the limitations of his highly personalized governing style.
UK PM May hosts reception for divers who rescued Thai children
Prime Minister Theresa May hosted a reception on Tuesday for the British divers who were involved in the rescue of 12 schoolboys from a flooded cave in Thailand earlier this month.
French PM says Macron bodyguard case ‘not a state scandal’
France’s prime minister on Tuesday struck back at opposition criticism of President Emmanuel Macron’s response to a video showing his top bodyguard assaulting May Day protesters, saying it was an isolated incident and not a state scandal.
It was all a blur in fire chaos, Greek victim says
Vassiliki Psevedourou heard a loud bang and in horror saw flames dancing menacingly outside her living room window at Neos Voutzas, east of Athens.
Hundreds missing in Laos after collapse of dam under construction
Hundreds of people in southern Laos are missing and many are feared dead a day after a hydropower dam under construction broke, killing several as it swept away homes in flash flooding, state media reported on Tuesday.
