DUP’s Foster says Irish backstop is toxic, would back May without it
The leader of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party which props up British Prime Minister Theresa May’s minority government said the Irish backstop in her Brexit deal was toxic but she could back the agreement if it was replaced.
Tehran bats away EU criticism of Iranian missile tests
Iran dismissed European Union criticism of its missile program, regional policies and rights record on Tuesday, highlighting their increasingly testy relationship as both sides seek to salvage a troubled nuclear deal.
Russia backs talks between Venezuela’s Maduro and opposition: RIA
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that the crisis in Venezuela could only be solved by getting the authorities and the opposition to talk to each other, the RIA news agency reported.
Fire kills eight in Paris apartment block, woman detained
Flames ripped through an apartment block in Paris, killing at least eight people and injuring 36 early on Tuesday, authorities said.
Two bodies found after floods in Australia’s Queensland
Australian authorities pulled the bodies of two men from a storm water drain during cleanup efforts after catastrophic flooding in the northeastern state of Queensland, police said on Tuesday.
Still time for Brexit solution, says Merkel
There is still time to find a solution to the impasse on Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in Japan on Tuesday.
Afghanistan lacks pilots, engineers to handle Black Hawk ‘copters, U.S. watchdog warns
The United States risks providing Afghanistan with state-of-the-art Black Hawk helicopters that the country’s embattled air force does not have the pilots to fly nor the engineers to maintain, a U.S. watchdog said on Tuesday.
Woman held after blaze in chic Paris area kills eight, injures 30
A woman has been detained as part of a probe into a fire in an apartment building in Paris that killed at least eight people and injured about 30, authorities said on Tuesday.
Paris fire death toll rises to eight, criminal cause probed
The death toll from a fire at a residential building in Paris now stood at eight, said Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz, who added that investigators were favoring a “criminal” cause for the blaze.
Tens of thousands attend first papal mass on Arabian peninsula
Tens of thousands of Catholics and several thousand Muslims attended an unprecedented public celebration of Mass on Tuesday by Pope Francis, the first pontiff in history to visit the Arabian peninsula.
