World briefs

NORTH KOREA President Donald Trump said yesterday he is not “personally” bothered by recent short-range North Korean missile tests and doesn’t believe they violated U.N. Security Council resolutions, breaking with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is hosting the president on a four-day state visit full of pageantry and pomp.

BANGLADESH A global monitoring group said the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an explosion targeting a police van in Bangladesh’s capital, but police said yesterday they were not sure who was behind it.

IRAQ A Baghdad court yesterday sentenced another former French fighter with the Islamic State group to death — the fourth Frenchman to get the capital punishment so far in Iraq — and postponed the verdict for a fifth man after he testified to being tortured in detention.

KENYA A growing number of Kenyan farmers are turning to silk production, in a move away from traditional cash crops such as coffee, maize, sugarcane and cotton.

SYRIA’s White Helmets say at least six people were killed and 10 remain under rubble following government air raids on a town in the rebel’s last stronghold.

MEXICO Prosecutors say three police officers have been killed and eight others wounded in a large-scale shooting attack in western Mexico.

POLAND’s ruling Law and Justice party has emerged as the big winner in the country’s European Parliament election, taking over 45% of the votes following an aggressive campaign against a united opposition in a year of key elections.

ITALY The League party of Italy’s hard-line interior minister, Matteo Salvini, was one of the biggest winners in the European elections, with sky-rocketing support that bolsters his role as the flagbearer of the nationalist and far-right forces in Europe and could also shake up politics at home.