Russia recognizes new authorities in Sudan: RIA agency
Moscow recognizes the new authorities in Sudan after President Omar al-Bashir was ousted, Russia’s RIA news agency cited Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov as saying on Tuesday.
Notre-Dame will reign magnificent again, say Windsor Castle restorers
Architects who restored Windsor Castle after a fire devastated the oldest inhabited castle in the world have a message for France: Notre-Dame Cathedral will reign magnificent again over Paris, possibly sooner than grieving Parisians expect.
Head of Algeria’s constitutional council resigns as students protest
The chairman of Algeria’s Constitutional Council Tayib Belaiz quit his post on Tuesday, state news agency APS said, following calls for his resignation by pro-democracy protesters who say he is part of a ruling elite they want abolished.
Bahrain jails 139 on terrorism charges, revokes citizenship
A court in Western-allied Bahrain sentenced 139 people to jail on terrorism charges on Tuesday and revoked the citizenship of all but one of them, the public prosecutor said, in the latest mass trial in the Gulf Arab state.
Five militants, one police officer killed in Pakistan raid
Police and army commandos killed five Pakistani Taliban militants during an overnight siege at a house in the northwestern city of Peshawar, officials said on Tuesday.
Skyscraper housing Australia, UK embassies in Madrid evacuated after bomb threat: police
A skyscraper housing embassies in Madrid was evacuated on Tuesday after a bomb threat was received by telephone at the Australian embassy there, a police spokeswoman said.
In the heart of Paris, a wounded Notre-Dame stirs emotions
Early morning runners stopped in their tracks, dumb-founded. Across the river, still smouldering, loomed the burnt-out form of Notre-Dame de Paris, its spire collapsed, its bell towers and buttresses standing silent in the dawn light.
Notre-Dame’s artworks to be transferred to Louvre museum
The artworks evacuated from Notre-Dame Cathedral during the blaze on Monday will be transferred to the Louvre Museum, the French Culture Minister Franck Riester told reporters.
Mutual friends and borrowed cars: how Ukraine’s would-be leader is linked to tycoon
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, front runner to be the next Ukrainian president, has connections to one of the country’s wealthiest tycoons that are undermining his image as an insurgent who will sweep aside the powerful moneyed elite.
Exploding ATMs: Brazil banks wrestle with dynamite heists
More than two dozen heavily-armed men stormed into the center of Guararema early on a recent morning, rousing the Brazilian town’s residents with the sound of broken glass, explosions – and then gunshots.
