Air strike in Libyan capital Tripoli kills three young sisters
Three children, all sisters, were killed, and their mother and a fourth sister wounded in an air strike that hit a house near a military intelligence camp in Libya’s capital on Monday, a Reuters reporter and health officials said.
Ecuador’s Moreno readies repeal of fuel subsidy cuts as protesters head home
Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno said on Monday that he would repeal an IMF-backed decree that slashed fuel subsidies “in coming hours,” confirming that he had given into a key demand of protesters who had spent nearly two weeks agitating against it.
Prince William and wife Kate arrive in Pakistan for five-day visit
Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate arrived in Pakistan’s capital on Monday, beginning a five-day visit that will focus on boosting ties and addressing challenges such as climate change.
Hailing ‘new revolution’, political outsider Saied elected Tunisia’s president
Kais Saied, a political outsider who is backed by Islamists and leftist and wants to remake national politics, won a landslide victory in Tunisia’s presidential election which he hailed as a “new revolution”.
More than a dozen police killed in ambush in violent Mexican state
Suspected cartel hitmen shot dead more than a dozen police in an ambush in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, authorities said on Monday, in one of the bloodiest attacks on security forces since President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office.
Thousands march in Kiev in protest against Donbass peace plan
Thousands of people marched through central Kiev on Monday to protest against President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s deal with Moscow to grant special status to a pro-Russian rebel-held region of eastern Ukraine as part of efforts to end a five-year conflict …
At least two dead in Guinea protests against change to constitution
At least one policeman and a protester were killed on Monday during demonstrations in Guinea against a possible change to the constitution that could let President Alpha Conde seek a third term, officials and residents said.
France asks EDF to prepare to build 6 EPR reactors in 15 years -Le Monde
The French government has asked power utility EDF to prepare plans to construct six EPR nuclear reactors over the next 15 years, Le Monde newspaper said on its website on Monday.
Sanctions stress makes Turkey’s lira October’s worst world currency
The slump in Turkey’s lira in the wake of the Turkish military advance into Syria has made it October’s worst performing major currency, a move that looks even starker considering most emerging market currencies have powered ahead.
Trio wins economics Nobel for science-based poverty fight
U.S.-based economists Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for work fighting poverty that has helped millions of children by favouring practical steps over theory.
