UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said peace negotiations to end the conflict in Ukraine were "not possible at this moment," in an interview published by Spanish daily El Pais on Tuesday.. Guterres said he hoped it was possible "in the future" to bring Russia and Ukraine to the negotiating table.
British former prime minister Liz Truss said Tuesday she would head to Taiwan next week to support the island democracy against what she said was China's "increasingly aggressive behaviour".. "I'm looking forward to showing solidarity with the Taiwanese people in person in the face of increasingly aggressive behaviour and rhetoric from the regime in Beijing."
Millions of Turks living abroad wrapped up voting on Tuesday, in a tense election that has turned into a referendum on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's polarising two-decade rule.. The first votes were cast by Turks who moved from poorer provinces to Western Europe over the decades under job schemes aimed at combating the continent's labour shortage in the wake of World War II. Such voters comprise 3.4 million of Turkey's 64.1 million registered electorate and tend to support more conservative candidates.
While having her daily lunch at a canteen in a shelter near Ukraine's southern front, Galyna Peleshko said Russian bombing has intensified in recent weeks with air strikes and artillery.. The town has been under artillery fire for nearly all of that time but the aerial bombardment started more recently -- around three weeks ago.
Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was arrested Tuesday during a court appearance in the capital for one of dozens of cases pending since he was ousted from office last year.. "Imran Khan has been arrested in the Qadir Trust case," the official Islamabad police Twitter account said, referring to a graft case.
Autopsies on corpses found in mass graves linked to a religious cult in Kenya have revealed missing organs and raised suspicions of forced harvesting, investigators said, with a fresh round of exhumations set to resume Tuesday. . Court documents filed on Monday said that some of the corpses had their organs removed, with police alleging that the suspects were engaged in forced harvesting of body parts.
More than 600 people died in gang violence last month in Haiti, where the authorities did not have the capacity to protect civilians, the United Nations said on Tuesday.. Turk said the Haitian state did "not have the capacity to respond", so civilians were forming vigilante groups to fight the gangs.
Strapped with gas masks, soldiers crouched on a playground Tuesday with rifles aimed at their target during Taiwan's first-ever reservist training for women as the island bolsters its defences against China.. On Tuesday the former women soldiers pulled gas masks over the heads, crawled across a playground, patrolled streets by a temple and performed other mock defence exercises.
The road to Heiroklian is smooth and freshly laid, with a sign proclaiming it part of an Indian government development initiative.. A form of affirmative action to combat structural inequality and discrimination, that classification would give them guaranteed quotas of government jobs and college admissions.
China said Tuesday it was expelling Canada's consul in Shanghai, in a tit-for-tat move after Ottawa announced it was sending home a Chinese diplomat accused of trying to intimidate a lawmaker.. "As a reciprocal countermeasure in reaction to Canada's unscrupulous move, China decides to declare Jennifer Lynn Lalonde, consul of the Consulate General of Canada in Shanghai persona non grata," the ministry said in a statement.
