Pompeo says documents confirm China committed human rights abuses
Recently leaked documents confirm that China committed human rights abuses of Uighurs and other minority groups, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters at a news conference on Tuesday.
American killed in attack on U.N. vehicle in Kabul on Sunday: Pompeo
A U.S. citizen was killed in an attack on a United Nations vehicle in Kabul on Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, as he condemned the act.
Foreign tourist killed in landmine blast in Myanmar hiking region
A foreign tourist was killed and his companion injured in a suspected landmine blast in a popular hiking region in northern Myanmar close to an area of clashes between ethnic rebel groups and government troops, local sources said on Tuesday.
UK Conservatives will hold inquiry into Islamophobia, says finance minister
British finance minister Sajid Javid said on Tuesday the governing Conservative Party would hold an inquiry into Islamophobia within its ranks, saying it took criticism from the Muslim community seriously.
Turkey says car bomb kills 17 near Syria’s Ras al Ain
A car bomb killed 17 people near a Syrian border town seized by Turkish-backed forces last month, Turkey’s Defence Ministry said on Tuesday, in an attack which it blamed on Syrian Kurdish YPG fighters.
Maltese government officials resign as murder scandal escalates
A top aide to Malta’s prime minister resigned on Tuesday and was questioned by police investigating the murder of a prominent journalist, while two government ministers also stood aside in a widening scandal rocking the European Union’s smallest state….
Russia says it showed hypersonic nuclear missile system to U.S. inspectors
Russia’s Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday it had shown the country’s new Avangard nuclear missile system to U.S. inspectors for the first time, a move Moscow said showed a key arms control treaty was still effective.
Dutch arrest two on suspicion of preparing ‘jihadist attack’
Dutch prosecutors said on Tuesday they had arrested two men on suspicion of preparing an Islamist militant attack with “bomb vests or one or more car bombs” in the Netherlands.
France will not be deterred in fight against terrorism: defence minister
France will not turn its back on the fight against terrorism after thirteen French soldiers were killed during a combat operation in Mali, Defence Minister Florence Parly said on Tuesday.
Serbia seizes four tonnes of marijuana in organic food farm
Serbian police raided an organic food farm just outside the capital Belgrade, detaining nine people and seizing almost four tonnes of marijuana, in one of the nation’s biggest such swoops, the interior ministry said on Tuesday.
