World Briefs

CHINA The daughter of a Swedish publisher detained in China said two Chinese businessmen said her father could be released if she stopped talking to the media. Angela Gui said that when she questioned the plan, the mood “became really threatening.”

CHINA Facing a future demographic crisis and aging society, national leaders are desperately seeking to persuade couples to have more children, but local officials resist.

PHILIPPINES says 136 people, mostly children, have died of measles and 8,400 others have been sickened in an outbreak blamed partly on recent vaccination fears.

SAUDI ARABIA’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman began his four-day visit to South Asia in Pakistan where Saudi officials signed agreements worth USD20 billion to help the Islamic nation overcome its financial crisis.

INDIA Tensions escalated in the aftermath of a suicide attack in disputed Kashmir, with seven people killed yesterday in a gunbattle that broke out as Indian soldiers scoured the area for militants.

USA Donald Trump is lashing out at key officials involved in the Russia probe, namely former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and the current deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein. Trump says both “look like they were planning a very illegal act, and got caught.”

NIGERIA Dozens of first-time female candidates are running for elections in a country where the percentage of women in parliament is one of the lowest in the world, under 7 percent, and the idea of a woman as president brings a belly laugh from many men.