Israeli troops kill Palestinian bystander after Israeli cars attacked
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli troops mistakenly killed a Palestinian bystander on Tuesday while responding with gunfire to a petrol bomb and rock attack on Israeli vehicles in the occupied West Bank, the military said.
Australian PM ends longest running Aboriginal land claim
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Tuesday settled the nation’s longest-running land rights claim, handing Aborigines land title deeds wrapped in eucalyptus paperbark to a peninsula on Darwin harbor in the tropical north….
Hong Kong presses Beijing on case of missing booksellers
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s leader said on Tuesday he had asked China whether its handling of the booksellers case violated the “one country, two systems” formula under which the city returned to Chinese rule, the strongest response yet from the …
Taliban kidnap at least 25 men from buses in Afghanistan’s south
KABUL (Reuters) – Taliban fighters in the southern Afghan province of Helmand stopped vehicles and detained at least 25 people, officials said on Tuesday, as the insurgents continued a series of abductions on Afghanistan’s highways over the past few we…
Five dead, 23 injured in Slovak bus crash in Serbia
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Five people died and 23 were injured early on Tuesday when a Slovak bus swerved off the road in southern Serbia, the Interior Ministry said.
Germany’s economy minister to visit Putin in Moscow: newspaper
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel plans to visit Russian President Vladimir Putin early next week to discuss ties between the two nations amid growing policy divisions within Germany’s ruling right-left coalition, a newspaper re…
‘In’ regains ground as UK’s EU referendum gets down to wire
EDINBURGH (Reuters) – Two opinion polls on Monday suggested support for Britain staying in the European Union had recovered some ground following the murder of a pro-EU lawmaker, but a third poll found support for a “Brexit” ahead by a whisker.
Former mayor in Chinese port city of Ningbo to be prosecuted
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s ruling Communist Party has expelled a former mayor of the port city of Ningbo, accusing him of taking bribes, trading influence and money for sex, indulging in “superstitious activities” and violating rules on extravagance …
Scepticism, tensions linger after China ‘rebel’ village head admits to graft
WUKAN, China (Reuters) – The chief of a Chinese “rebel” village once seen as a symbol of grassroots democracy said in a video on Tuesday that he’d accepted bribes, but many in the village said the confession was probably forced and pledged to ramp up p…
No cheer for Chinese province as banquet booze ban slapped on officials
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A county government in eastern China’s Anhui province has banned all alcoholic beverages from official banquets, except those held to attract investment or for foreign affairs, the state-backed newspaper China Daily reported on Tue…
