Reuters, Sydney
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull faces a tooth and nail fight with an emboldened opposition and slew of independent lawmakers when parliament returns on Tuesday for the first time since elections last month in which he took a beating.
Turnbull called early polls to break a deadlock in the upper house Senate, where a handful of independents blocked the government’s agenda of corporate tax cuts and workplace reforms for more than two years.
10 killed in China bus crash
AP, Beijing
Authorities in southern China say 10 people were killed and dozens injured when a bus overturned on a highway.
The government of the Guangxi Autonomous Region said the accident occurred Sunday when the bus flipped over as it was approaching its final stop in the regional capital Nanning. Another 32 people aboard the 47-seater bus were injured, five of them seriously. The bus driver was among those killed and the cause of the accident remains under investigation.
Gunman kills worker in Japan
AFP, Tokyo
A man who allegedly shot dead a construction worker and wounded three at their office in Japan is on the run, police said on Monday, marking a rare incident of gun violence in the country.
Public broadcaster NHK reported that the man, who is yet to be identified, was an acquaintance of the victims and is believed to still be armed.
He opened fire inside the office of a construction company in the western city of Wakayama, a police spokeswoman said, adding that 45-year-old Junsuke Ishiyama died after being sent to a hospital for a bullet wound to his stomach.
