World briefs

China A Beijing-based rocket developer sent two satellites into orbit yesterday, becoming China’s first private company to successfully complete an orbital launch, state media said.

Indonesia A woman sentenced to prison for recording her boss’s sexual harassment wept and lawmakers clapped as Indonesia’s parliament yesterday unanimously approved an amnesty recommended by the country’s president.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has offered a bounty to anybody who can deliver to him the head of the communist insurgent leader behind the killings of four police intelligence officers last week in an insurgency-hit central province.

Thailand Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha gave his first policy statement in the face of genuine parliamentary scrutiny yesterday after five years as an unchallenged junta leader.

Japan Nissan is slashing 12,500 jobs or about 9% of its global workforce to cut costs and achieve a turnaround amid tumbling profits, the Japanese automaker said yesterday.

North Korea fired a new type of short-range ballistic missile in two launches into the sea yesterday, South Korean officials said. They were North Korea’s first weapons launches in more than two months and appeared to be a pressuring tactic as Pyongyang and Washington struggle to restart nuclear negotiations. More on p13

Pakistan Thousands of supporters of Pakistan’s opposition parties are rallying across the country, urging Prime Minister Imran Khan to step down over what they say is his failure in handling the nation’s ailing economy.

Tunisia President Beji Caid Essebsi, the North African country’s first democratically elected leader and a symbol of the generation of Tunisians who shook off French rule in the 1950s, has died. He was 92.

Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló announced his resignation overnight, ceding power after nearly two weeks of furious protests and political upheaval touched off by a leak of crude and insulting chat messages between him and his top advisers.

UK British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged the European Union on yesterday to rethink its refusal to renegotiate the Brexit deal, setting himself on a collision course with both the bloc and his own lawmakers over his vow to leave the EU by Oct. 31. More on p15

USA Robert Mueller’s testimony sent the clearest signal yet that impeachment may be slipping out of reach for Democrats and that the ultimate verdict on President Donald Trump will be rendered by voters in the 2020 election.