Gunmen kill nine street cleaners outside Mogadishu: police, official
Suspected al Shabaab militants shot and killed nine street cleaners in a village near Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, police and a local governor said on Tuesday.
Kushner, in Gulf, says U.S. Mideast peace plan addresses borders issue
White House adviser Jared Kushner, giving a broad outline of a U.S. peace plan for the Middle East, said it will address final-status issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including establishing borders.
Russian official accuses U.S. of preparing military intervention in Venezuela
Russia believes the United States is preparing a military intervention in Venezuela, the RIA news agency cited the secretary of Russia’s Security Council as saying on Tuesday.
Pakistani villagers shaken awake as Indian warplanes drop bombs near madrasa
Villagers near the town of Balakot in northeast Pakistan were shaken out of their sleep by what seemed like an earthquake in the early hours of Tuesday, only discovering once dawn broke that there had been an Indian airstrike on their neighborhood.
U.N. says it has regained access to Red Sea mills grains in Yemen
U.N. aid officials have been able to reach the Red Sea Mills in Yemen’s Hodeidah port for the first time in six months, showing some slow progress in the aid effort to avert famine, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday.
Pakistan rejects Indian comments about ‘terror camps’, high death toll from air strike
Pakistan’s top civilian and military leaders on Tuesday rejected India’s comments that it had struck “terror camps” inside Pakistan, vowing to prove wrong India’s claims and warning that it will retaliate to Indian aggression.
UK finance sector ready for any type of Brexit: minister
Britain’s financial sector will continue to function properly whatever form Brexit takes, a junior minister said on Tuesday, though the head of an industry body said it would back proposals to avert Britain leaving the EU without a withdrawal deal.
May buckles: British PM to rule out no-deal Brexit – media reports
British Prime Minister Theresa May will on Tuesday propose formally ruling out a no-deal Brexit in a bid to avoid a rebellion by lawmakers who are threatening to grab control of the divorce process, The Sun and Daily Mail newspapers reported.
Exclusive: Despite sanctions, Russian tanker supplied fuel to North Korean ship-crew members
A Russian tanker violated international trade sanctions by transferring fuel to a North Korean vessel at sea at least four times between October 2017 and May 2018, two crew members who witnessed the transfers said.
Crane ships begin raising Norwegian navy ship damaged by oil tanker
Two crane ships early on Tuesday began raising a submerged Norwegian navy frigate which collided with an oil tanker in November and has remained stranded off Norway’s west coast since, the armed forces said.
