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Tunisians protest over missing migrants
Tunisians protest over missing migrants

Thousands of Tunisians demonstrated and a general strike shut down the coastal city of Zarzis Tuesday, to demand a renewed search for relatives who went missing during a September migration attempt. Tunisian authorities intercepted nearly 200 migrants attempting to reach Europe over the weekend, the defence ministry said Tuesday.

Russia blames 'malfunction' for jet crashing into flats
Russia blames 'malfunction' for jet crashing into flats

Russia said Tuesday that a technical malfunction had caused a military plane to crash a day earlier into a residential building near Ukraine, killing over a dozen people and spurring an outpouring among locals. Locals placed red roses, candles and smiling teddy bears around the board, in memory of the three children killed by the crash.

Counting starts in latest union vote at Amazon US warehouse
Counting starts in latest union vote at Amazon US warehouse

US labor officials began counting ballots in New York Tuesday in the latest unionization drive at Amazon after workers delivered the retail behemoth a split decision in two earlier votes. Over the last few days, employees at the ALB1 warehouse near Albany in upstate New York cast ballots in the third vote on a unionization petition by the Amazon Labor Union (ALU).