Russian, Syrian Planes Halt Aleppo Airstrikes Ahead of Truce and other top stories.

• Russian, Syrian Planes Halt Aleppo Airstrikes Ahead of Truce

  

  MOSCOW — Russian and Syrian warplanes on Tuesday halted their airstrikes on Syria's besieged city of Aleppo in preparation for a temporary truce that Moscow has announced for later in the week, the Russian defense minister said.According to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, the halt in the strikes should help pave way for militants to leave the eastern rebel-held parts of the contested city.Both Russian and Syrian air raids on Aleppo were suspended on 10 a.m. Tuesday, Shoigu said. He described..

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• Conspiracy Theorists: Pamela Anderson Poisoned Julian Assange With a Vegan Sandwich

  

  According to today’s most ludicrous new conspiracy theory, PETA activist Pamela Anderson poisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with a vegan sandwich. Beware of body doubles!In past years, a Presidential nominee calling women he’s accused of groping ugly liars or a major foreign power allegedly hacking into huge swathes of campaign emails would be Internet-breaking ammo. In this election cycle, that’s a slow news day. As America’s collective bad karma continues to manifest in this strange sur..

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• Think-tank: N. Korea's Musudan missile could be ready by next year

  

  Think-tank: N. Korea’s Musudan missile could be ready by next year North Korea is on track to perfect its Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missile — capable of reaching U.S. bases in Japan and Guam — much earlier than expected, a Washington-based think tank says. An aggressive schedule that has seen multiple tests, coupled with the communist nation carrying out launches near Kusong on its west coast, suggest the missiles could enter service as early as next year, says an analysis..

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• 'Brexit' May Hurt Britain Where It Thrives: Science and Research

  

  Technically, nothing has changed since the referendum. But a vast number of questions remain, including the shape of Britain’s future trading relationship with the European Union and the long-term rights of European nationals now working in the country. The widespread uncertainty, and the challenges that arise from it, are acutely felt in the scientific community, dependent as it is on long-term funding, cross-border mobility and international collaboration.“It’s probable that the opportunities..

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• Yemen to Start 72-Hour Cease-Fire

  

  DUBAI—A temporary cease-fire will take effect in Yemen Wednesday night, the United Nations’ envoy for the country said, the latest bid to end more than 18 months of war there. The cease-fire is set to start just before midnight and last 72 hours, the envoy, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, said in a statement Monday. It was subject to renewal, he...

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• Australia Denies Allegations of Torture at Migrant Camp

  

  SYDNEY —  Australia has rejected allegations by human rights campaigners that conditions on a small South Pacific Island where migrants are kept “amount to torture.” Amnesty International’s report claims that many asylum seekers held at the Australian-run camp on Nauru have attempted suicide to escape indefinite detention. Amnesty International said the incarceration of asylum seekers on the tiny South Pacific Island of Nauru was a "systematic regime of neglect and cruelty.” Its report - ‘Islan..

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• Mosul offensive: Territory recaptured from ISIS

  

  These were the visceral indications of how dedicated and single-minded Mosul's ISIS occupiers can be, and equally how bloody and grinding Iraq's battle to take back the city could be.As dawn broke Tuesday, the second day of the offensive to liberate Iraq's second largest city from ISIS, a diverse coalition of Iraqi troops, Kurdish Peshmerga allies and thousands of Iraqi irregulars gritted their teeth and prepared to again meet militant forces in the dusty scrubland outside the city. One Iraqi so..

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• One dead, six missing after German chemical plant explosions

  

  Residents of the Germany city of Ludwighshafen were urged to stay indoors on Monday after explosions at BASF chemical plants left at least one dead, seven injured and six missing. Officals at BASF, one of the world’s largest chemicals conglomerates, insisted there was no terrorist link to the incidents that appeared to involve supply pipes to the facilities. The most serious incident occured at about 11.30am on Monday when a fire broke out at the main Ludwigsburg plant, 80km south of Frankfur..

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• EU Nations Set to Delay Verdict on Trade Agreement With Canada

  

  European Union governments will probably refrain on Tuesday from giving their verdict on the EU’s draft trade agreement with Canada because more time is needed to overcome a political split in Belgium, the bloc’s commercial-policy chief said.Trade ministers from the 28-nation EU will have a “stock-taking” meeting on the Canada accord while efforts continue to address concerns in Belgium’s French-speaking southern region of Wallonia, Cecilia Malmstroem said. The pact needs the backing of all EU ..

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