UKRAINE

KIEV, Ukraine — Separatist rebels in the east of Ukraine have resumed the use of rocket launchers that should have been withdrawn under a February peace deal, Ukrainian military officials said Tuesday. The army said in a statement that rebels fired Grad rockets Monday evening at the government-held town of Avdiivka, which lies on the fringes of the main rebel stronghold of Donetsk.

BOSNIA-SHOOTING

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — A day after an attack on a police station, the Bosnian Serb leader who is pushing for independence for the Serb region of Bosnia says the country's central institutions are "useless" and Bosnian Serbs should form their own intelligence service. On Monday, a Bosnian Muslim gunman killed a policeman and wounded two in the northeastern town of Zvornik, on the border with Serbia.

NETHERLANDS-EARNS-PHILIPS

PARIS — Royal Philips NV, the world's biggest lighting maker, said Tuesday higher restructuring costs wiped out gains from higher sales to reduce first-quarter net profit by 27 percent to 100 million euros ($109 million). Sales rose 14 percent to 5.34 billion euros, as a strong growth from Philips so-called "Consumer Lifestyle" division, which incorporates anything from dental hygiene to kitchen appliances and hair removal tools, offset slow or falling sales from its health care and lighting divisions. 

FRANCE-EARNS-TOTAL

PARIS — French energy giant Total SA said Tuesday that its net profit slid 20 percent in the first quarter despite a rise in production as slumping oil prices took their toll. The company said net profit for the quarter was $2.66 billion, down from $3.34 billion a year earlier. That fall came despite a 10 percent rise in hydrocarbon production to 2.4 million barrels a day. 

WORLD-WINE

PARIS — China now boasts more land dedicated to wine-making vineyards than France, but France has beaten out Italy to regain the title of world's No. 1 wine producer. This is according to figures released Monday by the Paris-based International Organization of Vine and Wine.

GERMANY-DEUTSCHE BANK TRIAL

BERLIN — Deutsche Bank co-CEO Juergen Fitschen went on trial Tuesday along with two of his predecessors, charged with attempted fraud for allegedly colluding to deceive judges in a long-running legal battle with a now-deceased media mogul. 

GERMANY-POPULATION

BERLIN — Germany's Federal Statistical Office says it expects the country's population to shrink by a tenth or even more by 2060 as deaths outpace births. The office forecast Tuesday that the population will grow for the next five to seven years and then start dropping.

SPAIN-ANDORRA-BANK

MADRID — A Spanish investigative magistrate has opened a probe into possible money laundering at Banco de Madrid SA, a unit of Andorra's Banca Privada d'Andorra accused by the U.S. of helping groups from China, Russia and Venezuela launder money. 

NORTHERN IRELAND-BOMB

LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland — Northern Ireland police say a small bomb has detonated outside a probation office on a residential street in Londonderry, injuring nobody, and the city's leaders have accused IRA die-hards of recklessly endangering the lives of families living nearby. 

CYPRUS-PEACE TALKS

NICOSIA, Cyprus — A Cypriot government official says the country's president, Nicos Anastasiades, will hold his first meeting with new Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci this week. Government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides says the two men spoke on the telephone Tuesday and agreed to meet Saturday, less than a week after Akinci's election win. 

VATICAN-CLIMATE

VATICAN CITY — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised Pope Francis on Tuesday for framing climate change as an urgent moral imperative, saying his upcoming encyclical combined with a new round of U.N. climate talks in Paris provide an "unprecedented opportunity" to create a more sustainable future for the planet.