World News Update, What you need to know

World News Update, What you need to know

Public museums and other cultural venues in the Paris area will reopen, three days after the terror attacks in the French capital.

ELSEWHERE

ANTALYA - It opened with a minute's silence and could end with deafening consensus. (G20)

LONDON - Chris Cairns's lawyers have a final chance to convince a London jury that the former New Zealand cricket star is not the match-fixing ringleader the prosecution says he is. (LEGAL: UK CAIRN)

MANILA - The US cannot afford to stand in the way of a mammoth 12-nation Pacific free trade pact, the federal government says. (TPP AUST)

ECKWERSHEIM, France - A French rail company has confirmed children were aboard a high-speed train that derailed during a test run in northeast France. (FRANCE TRAIN)

RIO DOCE, Brazil - The collapse of two dams at a Brazilian mine has cut off drinking water for quarter of a million people and saturated waterways downstream with dense orange sediment that could wreck the ecosystem for years to come. (BHP BRAZIL)

BEIRUT - Lebanese security forces have arrested nine people, most of them Syrian nationals, over last week's twin bombings in Beirut that killed 44 people, the interior minister says. (LEBANON BLASTS)


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