 | | | World | | A Somali-born man set fire to a pickup truck laden with gas cylinders in the center of the Australian city of Melbourne and stabbed three people, killing one, before he was shot by police in a rampage they called an act of terrorism. | | | | Reuters identified and spoke to more than 20 of the roughly 2,000 Rohingya refugees on a list of people Myanmar has agreed to take back. Though officials say no-one will be forced to return against their will, all say they have been terrified since learning this month their names were on the list prepared by Bangladeshi officials and vetted by Myanmar. Two Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, have been imprisoned in Myanmar since Dec. 12, 2017. Follows the latest updates on their case. | | | | | | | | Commentary: World leaders including U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will gather in Paris on Sunday to commemorate the armistice of Nov. 11, 1918. The centenary is a natural occasion to reflect upon lessons for today from the tragic and seemingly pointless carnage of the “Great War,” writes Paul Wallace, a London-based writer and former European economics editor of The Economist. The central question is why the peace that followed proved to be no more than a fragile and unstable intermission between two global conflicts – and what modern-day Europe can learn from the mistakes of those interwar years.
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