Interpol seizes 500 tons of illicit drugs in worldwide raids
Coordinated police raids in 116 countries have netted 500 tons of illicit pharmaceuticals available online, including fake cancer medications, counterfeit pain pills and illegal medical syringes, the Interpol police organization said on Tuesday.
Threshold not yet reached to trigger challenge to UK PM May, says BBC political editor
The threshold of 48 letters from lawmakers that would trigger a leadership challenge to British Prime Minister Theresa May has not yet been reached, BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg said on Twitter.
Vatican ‘suffragettes’ want vote, change, in a man’s Church
Catholic women say there’s a clerical stained glass ceiling in the Vatican, and they want to shatter it.
Turkey’s Erdogan says to continue cooperation with nationalist party
Turkey’s ruling AK Party will not form an alliance with the nationalist party for the 2019 local elections, but cooperation between the two parties will continue, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday, after the nationalists pulled out of the allian…
Three arrested over alleged bid to blackmail founder of India’s Paytm
An Indian court on Tuesday remanded three people, including the spokeswoman of the country’s biggest digital payments company Paytm, to a week’s custody over an alleged bid to blackmail its founder and extort $2.7 million by threatening to leak stolen …
Turkey says cannot tolerate unilateral steps by Greece in Aegean Sea
Turkey cannot tolerate steps in the Aegean Sea by Greece without agreement of the two countries, the foreign ministry spokesman said in a written statement on Tuesday, after Greek officials spoke of plans to expand the country’s territorial waters.
Rights group accuses Palestinian Authority, Hamas, of using systematic torture
Security forces of the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority and Gaza’s rival Hamas group routinely arrest and torture critics and opponents to try to stifle dissent, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.
Kremlin says nuclear pact U.S. wants to quit has problems
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that a nuclear arms treaty Washington says it wants to quit had its weak points, but that it did not welcome what it called the dangerous U.S. approach of talking of withdrawal without proposing a replacement.
Kremlin says knows official Saudi stance on Khashoggi, rest is for investigators
Russia has heard the official Saudi Arabia’s stance that the royal family had no connection to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
France begins deliberations on new aircraft carrier
France will make a decision on the replacement of its flagship aircraft carrier the Charles de Gaulle at the start of 2020, its armed forces minister said on Tuesday.
