Kuala Lumpur / AFP Half a century after they died, the bodies of 32 Australian soldiers and their dependents, many of whom were killed in the Vietnam War, were returned home from Malaysia on Tuesday. In a sombre ceremony, their flag-draped coffins were loaded onto Australian airforce planes by a military guard of honour as a bugle sounded the …

  Dhaka / AFP A Bangladesh court on Tuesday sentenced to death six suspected militants for a deadly bank robbery last year, as authorities crack down on local hardliners following a wave of killings. Dhaka judge SM Quddus Zaman convicted and sentenced the men over the robbery, which raised fears at the time of local groups raising funds to finance …

  CAMP TARIQ / AFP Iraqi forces battling their way into Fallujah repelled a four-hour attack by the IS group in the city’s south on Tuesday, a day after first moving into the southern edges of the militant-held city with the help of US-led coalition airstrikes. Also Tuesday, a leading aid group raised alarm over the unfolding “human catastrophe” in …