Northern Ireland’s Foster, in Brussels, rebuffs EU Brexit compromise
The leader of Northern Ireland’s biggest party on Tuesday ruled out any checks on trade with the British mainland after the EU’s Brexit negotiator tried to persuade her that such controls could be “de-dramatised”.
North Korean food supply still precarious as donors stay away, U.N. says
The supply of food remains precarious in North Korea, where one in five children is stunted by malnutrition, the United Nation’s food agency said on Tuesday.
Indonesians step up search for quake victims to beat deadline as toll exceeds 2,000
Rescue workers in Indonesia stepped up their search for victims of an earthquake and tsunami on Tuesday, hoping to find as many bodies as they can before this week’s deadline for their work to halt, as the official death toll rose to 2,010.
Torchlight protest at racing ad on Sydney Opera House
Hundreds of Australians flickered torches on Tuesday at the sails of Sydney’s Opera House, aiming the light rays to disrupt horse-racing advertisements projected on its facade, in a protest against the use of the building to promote gambling.
Philippines’ Duterte says he does not have cancer
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday said he did not have cancer, following a biopsy last week at a private hospital that proved negative for the disease.
France asks Google to pull photos after helicopter jailbreak
France has asked Google to remove photos of prisons from the internet, including one from which a notorious criminal known as “the jailbreak king” escaped by helicopter this year.
Saudi consulate in Istanbul will be searched: Turkish foreign ministry
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that the investigation into Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who has been missing since he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul a week ago, is “continuing intensively”.
Iran is new transit point for Somali charcoal in illicit trade taxed by militants: U.N. report
Criminal networks are using Iran as a transit point for illicit Somali charcoal exports that earn Islamist militants al Shabaab millions of dollars annually in tax, U.N. sanctions monitors said in a report seen by Reuters.
UK Brexit minister Raab to make statement in parliament on EU talks: Labour
British Brexit minister Dominic Raab British will make a statement on negotiations to leave the European Union in parliament on Tuesday, the opposition Labour Party said.
Saudi ambassador back in Berlin a year after leaving over Lebanon comments
Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Germany has returned to Berlin, the Saudi foreign ministry said on Tuesday, almost a year he left over comments by German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel about the political crisis in Lebanon.
