Abbey Westbury

PARIS – A police union says three Saudi women who refused to remove their face veils at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport have been barred entry to France.

CAIRO – Egypt’s parliament met on Tuesday to select a 100-member panel that will draft a new constitution, but the process got off to a bumpy start when liberal lawmakers boycotted the session.

AMSTERDAM – The International Criminal Court says it is pushing back a key hearing in the war crimes case of Ivory Coast’s former president Laurent Gbagbo.

LONDON – The government of the Falkland Islands says that the disputed south Atlantic territory will hold a referendum on whether to remain a British territory.

WASHINGTON – Actor Matthew Broderick, country singer Josh Turner, composer John Williams and a dozen U.S. Olympic athletes will be among the headliners for this year’s July Fourth celebration on the National Mall.

BAGHDAD – An aid agency says more than 5,000 Syrian refugees fleeing a bloody government crackdown have now crossed into northern Iraq and their numbers are growing. Iraq’s Kurdish autonomous region is seeking help in coping with them.

LONDON – The Church of England and Roman Catholic bishops of England and Wales formally objected Tuesday to the government’s proposal to permit gay marriages, both asserting that their historic understanding is that marriage is the union of a woman and a man.

AMSTERDAM – The International Criminal Court says that the ongoing detention of four of its staffers in Libya is illegal under international law.

BEIRUT – Syrian forces barraged an eastern city with mortar shells as anti-government protesters were dispersing before dawn Tuesday, killing at least 10 people, while government troops kept up an offensive in a coastal province where Washington says regime forces may be preparing a massacre, activists said.

LONDON – WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange has asked Britain’s Supreme Court to reopen his extradition case, an unusual legal manoeuvr aimed at blocking his removal to Sweden.