World Briefs

INDONESIA Echoing the campaign tactics of Donald Trump, former Indonesian Gen. Prabowo Subianto says his country, the world’s third-largest democracy, is in dire shape and he is the leader who will restore it to greatness.

AUSTRALIA’s prime minister sidestepped a diplomatic dispute over a suspected extremist’s nationality and brushed off criticism that he is burdening Pacific neighbors with unsustainable debt as he began a two-day visit to Fiji.

IRAN kept up its criticism yesterday of the FBI’s apparent arrest of an American anchorwoman from Iran’s state-run English-language TV channel, with its foreign minister saying “she’s done nothing but journalism.”

YEMEN’s Houthi rebels hold dozens of women without bringing them to trial or charging them with a crime, often torturing the detainees and blackmailing their families, activists said yesterday.

KENYA The death toll from an extremist attack on a luxury hotel and shopping complex in Nairobi climbed to 21, plus the five militants killed, police said in the aftermath of the brazen overnight siege by al-Shabab gunmen.

TURKEY A Dutch newspaper says Turkish authorities have detained and later deported a journalist, the latest foreign reporter to be ousted from the country which is accused of stifling media freedoms.

GREECE Hundreds of striking Greek civil servants, mostly school teachers, are marching through central Athens to protest proposed new hiring criteria for state school teachers.

FRANCE A strong explosion and fire hit a science building undergoing repairs at the University of Lyon yesterday, injuring three people slightly, French officials said.

BRITAIN Prime Minister Theresa May says she has started meeting leaders of opposition parties about Brexit and called for politicians to “put self-interest aside” and find a consensus on Britain’s path out of the European Union.

PERU Amid an unbearable stench, thousands of workers, police and soldiers struggled to contain and clean up a flood of sewage that has caused the government to declare a health emergency in one of the most populous parts of Peru’s capital.

US Just two months after a wildfire wiped out Paradise, California, officials are gearing up for this year’s fire season and fear the government shutdown could make it even more difficult than one of the worst in history.