Indonesian rescuers find no survivors in wreckage of crashed plane
JAKARTA (Reuters) – All 54 people on board a Trigana Air aircraft were killed in a crash two days ago in Indonesia’s Papua province, the latest in a string of aviation disasters in the Southeast Asian archipelago, officials said on Tuesday.
Eight held in Italy after 49 migrants suffocate on packed boat
ROME (Reuters) – Eight suspected human traffickers thought to have forced migrants to stay in the hold of a fishing boat in the Mediterranean as 49 of them suffocated on engine fumes have been arrested on suspicion of homicide, Italian police said on T…
Shake-up in Myanmar as Suu Kyi allies with ousted ruling party boss
NAYPYITAW (Reuters) – Myanmar’s Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi said on Tuesday her opposition would ally with powerful ousted ruling party leader Shwe Mann, as the country’s political forces re-align in the biggest shake-up since the end of military r…
South African police fire rubber bullets at school protest
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African police officers fired rubber bullets at parents protesting outside a primary school on the outskirts of Johannesburg on Tuesday, wounding at least six people, local media said.
Tunisia allows Libyan flights after six-month shutdown
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia said it would reopen its airspace to flights to and from Libya on Tuesday as safety standards in its neighbor’s airports had improved.
Pakistan opposition lawmaker shot, wounded in attack on car; driver killed
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – Gunmen on Tuesday shot and wounded a Pakistani opposition lawmaker and killed the driver of his car, police said, as the government sought to woo his party’s deputies back to parliament after they resigned over the arrests…
Iran plans to sign contract for Russian S-300 missiles next week
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran will sign a contract with Russia next week to buy four S-300 surface-to-air missile systems, the Iranian defense minister said on Tuesday, bringing Tehran closer to acquiring an advanced air defense capability.
Iraq’s Maliki says report on fall of Mosul has ‘no value’: statement
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s former prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, on Tuesday condemned as having “no value” a parliamentary panel’s findings on the fall of Mosul to Islamic State which called for him and other top officials to stand trial for negligenc…
South Africa’s Tutu in hospital to treat inflammation
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African anti-apartheid campaigner and veteran cleric Desmond Tutu has been admitted to hospital due to “inflammation”, his daughter said on Tuesday, the second time in a month the 83-year-old has needed medical treatment….
Pro-Kurdish opposition to consider taking part in Turkish ‘election government’
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) will consider taking part in an interim power-sharing government to lead the country to a new election, co-chairman Selahattin Demirtas said on Tuesday, after talks between other…
