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65 bodies found ‘executed’ in Syria river

The bodies of at least 65 young men and boys, all executed with a single gunshot to the head or neck, were found on Tuesday in a river in the Syrian city of Aleppo, a watchdog and rebels said. Full story

Looting in Timbuktu

A Malian soldier trys to disperse looters in the streets of Timbuktu on Tuesday. Hundreds of Malians looted stores in Timbuktu on Tuesday, saying the shops belonged to ‘Arabs’ and ‘terrorists’ linked to the radical Islamists who occupied the desert town for 10 months. — AFP photo
Hundreds of Malians looted Arab-owned shops Tuesday in Mali’s fabled Timbuktu, newly freed from Islamists, as global donors pledged over $455 million for a French-led drive to rout the radicals from the north. Life in the ancient desert city freed... Full story

All 20 on board Kazakh jet killed in crash

All 20 people on board a domestic flight in Kazakhstan operated by the SCAT airline died Tuesday when their Canadian-made jet crashed on approach to Almaty airport in thick fog, the airline said. Full story

China’s military at ‘high risk’ on corruption

China’s armed forces are battling a major corruption problem, with little political oversight and no whistleblower mechanism to counter graft, watchdog Transparency International said Tuesday. Full story

Karzai warns of ‘plot’ against Afghan peace

The Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, Tuesday accused foreign countries of plotting against his war-weary nation’s peace programme, saying all negotiations should take place under his administration. Full story

Pakistan cop killed in polio attack

Gunmen opened fire on a polio vaccination team in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing a policeman who was providing security to the team, officers said. The shooting happened in the Kala village of Swabi district... Full story

Smog envelops swathes of China again

Residents across northern China battled through choking pollution at extreme levels on Tuesday, as Beijing was plunged into toxic twilight for the fourth time this winter. Visibility was reduced to around 200 metres in parts of the... Full story

Delhi gang-rape verdicts ‘very soon’, says lawyer

verdics for five men accused of the fatal gang-rape of a student on a New Delhi bus would be handed down ‘very soon,’ a defence lawyer said Tuesday, as an application to relocate the trial failed. Full story

North Korea threatens ‘merciless’ retaliation on South

North Korea on Tuesday vowed ‘merciless’ retaliation against the South for its support of UN sanctions, as Seoul urged Pyongyang to step back from a widely expected nuclear test. Full story

Singapore population to be half-foreign by 2030

Foreigners could make up nearly half of Singapore’s population by 2030, the government said Tuesday as it unveiled its politically sensitive projection for a city of up to seven million boosted by young immigrants. Full story

Two dead, one missing in Indonesia asylum boat ordeal

Two people died and one went missing after a boat carrying 25 Sri Lankans asylum-seekers drifted for weeks off Indonesia’s Java island due to engine failure, police said Tuesday. Fishermen found the wooden boat with... Full story

Military called in as deadly floods batter Australia

Australia ramped up its military response to deadly flooding in the country’s northeast Tuesday, as troops prepared for a massive clean-up operation following storms which killed four and left thousands of homes swamped. Full story


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