Gaza militants launch mortar bombs against Israel, no casualties
GAZA-ISRAEL BORDER (Reuters) – Palestinian militants fired more than 25 mortar bombs from Gaza into Israel on Tuesday, the Israeli military said, in one of the heaviest barrages in years.
U.S. plans walkout as Syria takes reins of U.N. disarmament forum
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United States will stage a walkout in protest at Syria’s presidency of the Conference on Disarmament at the United Nations in Geneva, U.S. Ambassador Robert Wood told reporters on Tuesday.
Four years on, MH370 families await report as search ends for missing plane
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s new government has promised to release a long-awaited report into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 as a privately funded underwater search ended on Tuesday.
Nine civilians killed in eastern Afghan province
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – At least nine civilians were killed in a night operation by Afghan security forces in the eastern province of Nangarhar late on Monday, officials said, as fighting continued across Afghanistan.
Dassault company will continue to play strategic role for France: defense minister
PARIS (Reuters) – The Dassault company will continue to play a strategic role for the French armed forces, the country’s defense minister Florence Parly said on Tuesday, following the death of billionaire industrialist Serge Dassault.
Top North Korean officials travel to U.S., Singapore in summit preparations: media
SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) – North Korea has dispatched top officials to the United States and Singapore, media reported on Tuesday, the latest indication that the on-again-off-again summit with U.S. President Donald Trump may go ahead.
Taiwan welcomes Haiti president as China chips away at allies
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen welcomed the leader of the Caribbean nation of Haiti with a military salute on Tuesday on his first official trip to Taipei, as China ramps up the pressure to lure away Taiwan’s friends.
In China’s booming tech scene, women battle sexism and conservative values
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Ms Li has a day job in the marketing department of one of China’s biggest tech firms. At night, she has a second career, livestreaming herself eating noodles or telling jokes in return for small donations from thousands of …
EU handouts not always the answer for Africa’s returning migrants
DAKAR (Reuters) – When Fatou Kine’s failed attempt to reach Europe left her jobless and penniless in Algeria, she turned to an agency she had heard helped migrants return home.
Germany’s ‘miserly’ Scholz irks comrades at home and abroad
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s new Social Democrat finance minister, Olaf Scholz, is frustrating both key ally France and his own struggling center-left party by adopting the same fiscal rigor as his conservative predecessor, Wolfgang Schaeuble.
