Indonesia police arrest three over suspected suicide bomb plot
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian police said on Tuesday that three people had been arrested over a suspected plot to carry out a suicide bomb attack in an undisclosed location outside the most populous island of Java.
Syrian army says it will enter Aleppo enclave: Hezbollah news service
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria’s army broadcast messages into the last rebel enclave of Aleppo saying it would enter the area on Tuesday, a military media unit run by the government’s ally Hezbollah reported, urging insurgents to speed up their evacuation of…
Bangladesh arrests two Islamists blamed for cafe attack
DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh security forces on Tuesday arrested two members of an Islamist militant group blamed for a deadly attack on a cafe in Dhaka in July in which 22 people were killed, most of them foreigners.
Investigators urge extending search for missing Malaysian flight
SYDNEY/KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Investigators searching for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have recommended extending the search by 25,000 sq km (9,650 sq miles), to an area further north in the Indian Ocean, after conceding for the first time they wer…
Poland’s lower chamber of parliament removes ban on reporters
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s lower chamber of parliament, the Sejm, removed a temporary ban on access for the media on Tuesday and said any changes to rules governing journalists’ access would not be implemented without prior consultations with reporter…
China returns underwater drone, U.S. condemns ‘unlawful’ seizure
BEIJING (Reuters) – China has returned a U.S. underwater drone taken by one of its naval vessels in the disputed South China Sea last week after what it said were friendly talks with the United States, which reiterated its criticism of the “unlawful” s…
Death toll in Siberian mass alcohol poisoning case rises to 52
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Siberian authorities on Tuesday revised upwards the number of Russians who have died after drinking contaminated bath oil to 52 from 41, the Irkutsk region’s health ministry told Reuters.
U.S., Iran close Turkish missions after firearm incident, Russian envoy killing
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The United States embassy in Ankara and its consulates in Istanbul and Adana will be closed for normal operations on Tuesday after an individual approached the embassy and discharged a firearm, the embassy said.
Macron moves ahead of Fillon in French popularity poll
PARIS (Reuters) – Centrist former minister Emmanuel Macron is for the first time more popular than his conservative rival for the French presidency, Francois Fillon, according to an Odoxa poll of approval ratings for L’Express magazine and France Inter…
U.N. says 15,000 flee into China as Myanmar’s army battles ethnic rebels
YANGON (Reuters) – Up to 15,000 people may have fled across Myanmar’s border into China in the past month, a United Nations agency has said, as fighting between Myanmar’s army and ethnic armed groups intensifies.
