Cyclone hit millions across Africa in record disaster: U.N.
Cyclone winds and floods that swept across southeastern Africa affected more than 2.6 million people and could rank as one of the worst weather-related disasters recorded in the southern hemisphere, U.N. officials said on Tuesday.
President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, resigns
Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president of Kazakhstan, said on Tuesday he was resigning as the Central Asian nation’s leader after three decades in power.
May looks for way to Brexit as EU summit looms
Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plans were in disarray on Tuesday as her government sought to plot a way around a ruling by the speaker of parliament that she must change her twice-defeated divorce deal to put it to a third vote.
May seeking Brexit delay to June 30 with option of two-year extension: BBC
British Prime Minister Theresa May will write to the European Union on Tuesday to ask for a Brexit extension until the end of June and with a possible two-year delay, the BBC’s political editor said.
Pakistan tells China of ‘deteriorating situation’ in Indian Kashmir
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi told his Chinese counterpart on Tuesday of the “rapidly deteriorating situation” and rights violations in Indian Kashmir, and called for India to look again at its policies there.
Pupil injures four staff at Oslo school: police
A pupil attacked several employees at a school in Oslo on Tuesday, injuring four people, police said.
U.S. says Iran missile program detribalizing Middle East
A senior U.S. arms control official said on Tuesday that Iran’s missile program is detribalizing the Middle East and raising the risk of a “regional arms race” through the provision of such weapons to armed groups in Lebanon and Yemen.
EU impatient with Brexit, but resigned to delay
European Union governments are exasperated by British dithering over quitting the bloc but have little appetite for pushing it out on schedule next week without a divorce deal, senior figures said on Tuesday.
‘I am your mother now’: New Zealand mosque shootings hit tight-knit Bangladesh community hard
Husna Ahmed was 19 when she arrived in New Zealand from Bangladesh on her wedding day. Waiting to meet her was Farid, the man she would marry in a few hours, as their families had agreed.
Gunmen kill five miners in Ethiopia, TV says foreigners among dead
Gunmen in Ethiopia have shot and killed five workers from a mining company in the restive west on Tuesday, residents said, with a TV station reporting two foreigners among the dead.
