AVDIIVKA / AP Fighting between government troops and Russia-backed separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine escalated on Tuesday, killing at least seven people overnight, injuring many more and briefly trapping 200 coalminers underground, the warring sides reported. Rebels in Donetsk said an electricity sub-station was damaged in shelling, cutting power to the Zasyadko coal mine in Donetsk and trapping more …

  MANILA / AP The United States is not building any weapons depot anywhere in the Philippines, the US ambassador said Tuesday, denying the basis on which President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to abrogate a 2014 defense pact that allows US forces to temporarily base in local camps. Ambassador Sung Kim said that nothing is being planned now that even closely …

  Bloomberg Brexit Secretary David Davis called on lawmakers to give the government permission to implement the will of the British people who voted for the UK’s formal departure from the European Union. Davis kicked off the debate in the House of Commons in London on Tuesday and made the case that the issue is straightforward. The lower house of …