Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Tuesday unveiled a new cabinet stacked with loyal allies of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, including the strongman's own son-in-law as energy minister.

The announcement came on the same day Turkish fighter jets shot down a Russian war plane on the Syrian border, creating a new security challenge for the government. 

A majority of Britons want to leave the European Union, according to a new opinion poll on Tuesday.

A poll in September by another institute was the first to put the EU exit camp in the lead.

The man who loaned his Paris suburb apartment to the suspected ringleader of the attacks on the city and accomplices but claimed he did not know who they were, was sent before a French judge on Tuesday.

Jawad Bendaoud, who sparked a flurry of mocking social media memes for an interview he gave protesting his innocence as the police assault on the apartment in Saint-Denis was ongoing, was arrested soon afterwards.

Somali pirates have attacked two fishing boats, capturing one from Iran with 15 crew, an anti-piracy expert said Tuesday, adding that the vessel was now heading towards Somalia's coast.

"Two vessels were attacked," said John Steed from Oceans Beyond Piracy, which tracks ships that have been attacked and helps support hostages.

Italy has expelled four Moroccans who were found with a video inciting people to "fight the enemies of Islam," judicial sources said Tuesday, in the first such move following the Paris terror attacks.

This year, Italy has already expelled some 60 Islamist radicals, including four imams, but these are the first expulsions since the November 13 strikes in the French capital.

Peace talks between Sudan's government and rebels have adjourned without a deal after a week of negotiations in Ethiopia, African Union mediators said Tuesday.

Rebel factions from the war-torn western Darfur region as well as the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), fighting the government in the southern Blue Nile and South Kordofan states since 2011, met with government delegates from Khartoum.

Cambodia's increasingly fractious political situation is pushing the country towards a "dangerous tipping point", the U.N. rights envoy to the kingdom said Tuesday.

The country has been plunged into a bitter political crisis after an arrest warrant was issued for Sam Rainsy, Cambodia's most prominent opposition leader.

Five people were shot and suffered injuries, Minneapolis police said on Twitter Tuesday, with local media reporting that the incident occurred at a protest over the fatal shooting by police of a black man.

The police tweeted that officers are "searching for 3 white male suspects."

Somalia's Shebab fighters have warned they will "cut the throat" of members who shift allegiance from Al-Qaida to Islamic State, amid reports some factions have already been punished for doing so.

"If anyone says he belongs to another Islamic movement, kill him on the spot," top Shebab official Abu Abdalla, said in a radio broadcast Monday. "We will cut the throat of any one... if they undermine unity."

Newly elected Tanzanian President John Magufuli has scrapped independence day celebrations to spend the money on a clean-up campaign, an official statement said.

"It is so shameful that we are spending huge amounts of money to celebrate 54 years of independence when our people are dying of cholera," Magufuli said in a statement read on state television late Monday.