Police ask for charges against singer in K-pop band BTS over car crash: Yonhap
Seoul police have asked prosecutors to consider pressing charges against a member of hit South Korean boyband BTS over an October car crash, Yonhap news agency reported on Tuesday, citing police officials.
France’s CGT says decision on unlimited strike at refineries mid next week
France’s CGT union will decide next week whether to declare an unlimited strike at oil refineries, including potential production shut down mid next week if unions decide to harden that stance in the ongoing protest over planned pension reform.
Russia sentences man to life in prison for St Petersburg metro bombing: Ifax
A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced a man to life in prison after finding him guilty of organizing a bombing on the St Petersburg metro in 2017 that killed 15 people, the Interfax news agency reported.
As Suu Kyi looks on, Gambia asks U.N. judges to ‘stop genocide’ in Myanmar
Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrived at the U.N.’s International Court of Justice on Tuesday to defend her country over charges of genocide against its Rohingya Muslim minority, as back home thousands of people rallied in her support.
Turkey’s Erdogan says Nobel academy rewarding human rights violations
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused the Nobel academy on Tuesday of rewarding human rights violations by awarding the prize for literature to Peter Handke, who has been criticized for backing late Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic.
Six shot dead in Czech hospital attack, suspect shoots himself
A gunman shot dead six people on Tuesday at a hospital waiting room in the eastern Czech city of Ostrava in an unexplained attack, authorities said.
Czech hospital shooting suspect has died: Czech TV
The suspect in a shooting at a hospital in the eastern Czech city of Ostrava on Tuesday has killed himself, Czech Television reported, citing Interior Minister Jan Hamacek.
Argentina’s Peronists return as Fernandez sworn into power
Argentina’s new Peronist leader Alberto Fernandez will assume the presidency on Tuesday, a sharp gear shift from conservative Mauricio Macri as the Latin American country firefights rampant inflation, credit default fears and rising poverty.
Philippines to end martial law in restive south
The Philippines will lift martial law on the southern region of Mindanao at the end of this month, citing an improving security climate and a reduced threat of extremism two years after one of Asia’s biggest Islamic State-inspired attacks.
Spitting volcano keeps search parties off New Zealand’s White Island
Fearing the volcano could erupt again, search parties were unable to set foot on New Zealand’s White Island for eight people still missing on Tuesday, after an eruption a day earlier killed at least five and injured more than 30.
