Kiev / AFP A popular Ukrainian female combat pilot who served time in a Russian prison gave President Petro Poroshenko a new headache on Tuesday by launching her own opposition movement. “This is meant to … create a real change in the system,” local media quoted Nadiya Savchenko as telling reporters in the western city of Lviv. Savchenko’s new movement …

  MANILA / AFP The Philippine coast guard pressed its search on Tuesday for 18 crewmen from a cargo ship that sank at the height of Typhoon Nock-Ten, which struck the country on Christmas Day. Coast guard spokesman Armand Balilo said 14 other crewmen have been rescued and one died after the M/V Starlite Atlantic sank off Mabini town in Batangas …

  Istanbul / AFP Almost 30 Turkish police went on trial in Istanbul on Tuesday charged with involvement in the July 15 coup, the city’s first trial of alleged putschists in the massive crackdown that followed the failed bid to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. With some 41,000 coup suspects under arrest in a state of emergency, the nationwide trials …