Tajikistan says four tourists killed by car, could be terrorist act
Four foreign cyclists have been killed by a hit-and-run driver in Tajikistan in what may have been a terrorist act, the Central Asian nation’s interior minister said on Monday.
‘Horrors that can’t be told’: Afghan women report Islamic State rapes
A mother of three from a remote area of northwestern Afghanistan remembers the day the head of a local Islamic State group came to her village, demanding money he said her husband had promised.
Zimbabwe’s Chamisa says ‘victory is certain’ as he casts vote
Zimbabwe’s main opposition candidate, Nelson Chamisa, on Monday cast his vote in the first election since the removal of former president Robert Mugabe, telling a cheering crowd: “Victory is certain, the people have spoken.”
Cambodian PM’s party claims all election seats, opposition sees ‘death of democracy’
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) said on Monday it had won all 125 parliamentary seats up for grabs in a general election a day earlier that critics said was neither free nor fair.
After Indonesian earthquake terror, hundreds trek down from volcano
Nearly 700 trekkers headed down Mount Rinjani on Indonesia’s tourist island of Lombok on Monday, a day after a powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.4 terrified the climbers as boulders tumbled down the slopes of the volcano.
No new findings in MH370 probe report, families say
Families of passengers on board missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 said on Monday that an investigation report released to them offered no new findings to explain the plane’s mysterious disappearance.
MH370 investigators ‘unable to confirm’ cause of disappearance
Investigators released a probe report on Monday into the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner MH370 and said they were unable to determine the cause of one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries.
Pilot ‘steered helicopter from crowds’ before Beijing crash
A civilian helicopter crashed into a parking lot in the Chinese capital on Monday after the pilot managed to steer the aircraft away from crowded areas, the state-run Beijing Youth Daily said.
Half of UK voters support referendum on Brexit deal, no deal or staying: Sky
Half of British voters support a referendum to choose between leaving with a deal that the government may clinch with the European Union, leaving with no deal or staying in the EU, Sky News reported on Monday, citing its own poll.
Italy’s deputy PM says Franco-Italian rail link needs to be reviewed
Italy’s deputy prime minister said on Monday an ambitious Franco-Italian rail link, known as TAV, had to be reviewed because it was opposed by local population and was an obsolete plan.
