Afghan troops battle Taliban offensive in Helmand province
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Afghan forces said they were holding off a Taliban offensive in Helmand province on Tuesday, as reinforcements and air support arrived.
With Islamic State gone, East Mosul residents face uncertain future
MOSUL (Reuters) – When Islamic State militants swept into Mosul in 2014, they wandered into Manaf Younes’ billiards hall and declared it un-Islamic, taking away his billiard balls with a stern warning.
Poland’s Walesa collaborated with communist secret police: institute
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s government-affiliated history institute said on Tuesday it had new evidence that Lech Walesa, who led protests and strikes that shook communist rule in the 1980s, had been a secret police informant in the 1970s.
Philippines narcotics agency takes over drugs war amid police shakeup
MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines handed its anti-narcotics agency the lead role in running a controversial war on drugs on Tuesday after President Rodrigo Duterte lambasted the national police for rampant corruption and took them off the job.
Yemen war erases decade of health gains, many children starving: UNICEF
GENEVA (Reuters) – Yemen has lost a decade’s worth of gains in public health as a result of war and economic crisis, with increasing numbers of children succumbing to malnutrition, the United Nations’ Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
WFP resumes air drops to Syrian town besieged by Islamic State
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations has restarted air drops of food to support 93,500 Syrians besieged by Islamic State in the town of Deir al-Zor, the U.N. World Food Programme said on Tuesday.
Some leading French Socialists threaten to desert hard-left Hamon
PARIS (Reuters) – Two French Socialists said they would not back their party’s hard-left presidential candidate Benoit Hamon, deepening splits in the party and handing a possible boost to independent centrist rival Emmanuel Macron.
U.S. President Trump poses grave risk to world trade: French Finance Minister
PARIS (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration poses a grave risk to international trade and Europe will have to stand up to him to prevent the collapse of global economic institutions, French Finance Minister Michel Sapin said on Tuesd…
South African ‘Bull Dog’ prosecutor made famous by Pistorius trial resigns
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African prosecutor Gerrie Nel, who oversaw the conviction of Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, has resigned from the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), its spokesman said on Tuesday.
Protests expected after Pakistan detains alleged architect of Mumbai attack
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani police confined the accused architect of the 2008 Mumbai attacks to house arrest on Tuesday, manning barricades outside his home in the city of Lahore as supporters vowed protests.
