World briefs

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said last night there was no way to stop Chinese nationals from fishing in his country’s exclusive economic zone claimed by China and added that he would not risk losing Filipino forces in a clash with the Asian superpower in the disputed South China Sea. “When Xi says I will fish, who can prevent him?”

South Korea Police detained six people for allegedly illegally entering a Japanese diplomatic facility in South Korea and staging an anti-Tokyo demonstration there. On Friday, a 78-year-old South Korean man died after setting himself on fire near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul.

Australia Several inmates were stabbed during a riot at an Australian juvenile detention center that ended after 21 hours with 20 arrests, police said. The riot at the detention center north of Sydney started at 8.30 p.m. Sunday. Nine inmates surrendered by yesterday afternoon but another 11 had not. Police later stormed the rooftop where the rioters were holding out and arrested them, a police statement said.

Pakistan An official says an army helicopter has rescued an Italian and a Russian climber stranded on a treacherous peak in the country’s north. Karrar Haidri, the secretary of the Alpine Club of Pakistan, says Francesco Cassardo of Italy and Konstantin Sidorov of Russia were found on Gasherbrum peak in the Karakoram range after they got injured amid bad weather.

New Zealand is planning further restrictions to gun ownership in a law proposed yesterday that emphasizes owning guns is a privilege and not a right. The new law would ban the sale of guns to overseas visitors, create a register to track all guns in the country, and require gun owners to renew their gun licenses every five years instead of every 10. 

India successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft to the far side of the moon yesterday, a week after aborting the mission due to a technical problem. The spacecraft – named Chandrayaan, the Sanskrit word for “moon craft” – is scheduled to land on the lunar south pole in September and send a rover to explore water deposits.

India Dozens of people have died in a thunderstorm that struck the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.nState disaster relief officials said that lightning killed 33 people and injured 13 more. The source said that 20 houses collapsed in the storm. Heavy rains and lightning lashed the region when farmers were working in the field.

UK The younger brother of the suicide bomber who killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester has been kept in custody at a bail hearing. Hashem Abedi (pictured) appeared at Oxford Crown Court yesterday via video-link from Belmarsh Prison in southeast London. The judge ordered the 22-year-old to be placed in custody before a preliminary court hearing on July 30.