Bloomberg After two aborted test flights in as many days following a faulty air-conditioning system, Japan’s first locally built passenger jet was back for checks and fixes amid delays to a program aimed at challenging the dominance of Brazil’s Embraer SA and Canada’s Bombardier Inc. Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp., the builder of the Mitsubishi Regional Jet, will make a decision …

  Istanbul / AFP Turkey warned on Monday it would carry out more strikes on a Syrian Kurdish militia if it failed to retreat beyond the Euphrates River, as Washington condemned their weekend clashes as “unacceptable”. Turkish forces pressed on with a two-pronged operation inside Syria against the IS extremists and the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), shelling over …

  Berlin / AFP German federal prosecutors said on Monday they had brought charges against a 16-year-old girl who allegedly stabbed a policeman in February in an operation for the IS extremist group. The German-Moroccan teenager, identified only as Safia S., was charged on August 12 with attempted murder, grievous bodily harm and support for a foreign terrorist organisation, the federal …