World briefs

China yesterday threatened retaliation if Washington steps up their war over trade and technology by going ahead with planned Sept. 1 tariff hikes on additional Chinese imports.

China Huawei Technologies Co. told a federal judge in Texas that Congress improperly decided, without any judicial review, that the company was a pawn of the Chinese government, depriving it of due process that other Chinese companies get.

Taipei America’s top representative in Taiwan said yesterday that Washington expects the island to continue increasing its defense spending as Chinese security threats to the U.S. ally continue to grow. More on p11

Myanmar Ethnic rebels in Myanmar have staged coordinated attacks in five locations, including at a military academy outside normal combat zones, where a civilian was killed and a soldier wounded.

Japan A powerful typhoon lashed southwestern Japan yesterday with massive rain and strong winds, injuring at least 11 people and paralyzing traffic during Japan’s Buddhist holiday week.

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi defended his government’s controversial measure to strip the disputed Kashmir region of its statehood and special constitutional provisions in an Independence Day speech yesterday, as about 7 million Kashmiris stayed indoors for the 11th day of an unprecedented security lockdown and communications blackout.

Russia The Moscow City Court ruled yesterday to place Philippe Delpal, partner at the Moscow-based private equity firm Baring Vostok, under house arrest, more than six months after he was first detained and sent to jail.

Greece Authorities sent reinforcements yesterday to firefighters battling a major forest fire in a nature reserve on the island of Evia as water-dropping aircraft tried to extinguish the flames in a hard-to-reach canyon.

Sweden Prosecutors say a man arrested in northern Sweden who initially was suspected of planning a murder is now suspected of conspiracy to commit terrorism.

UK Business daily Handelsblatt reports that German officials expect Britain to leave the European Union without a deal at the end of October and consider the EU’s preparations for this eventuality to be “largely completed.”

USA An hour-long standoff where a gunman shot at police, wounding six of them, as he was barricaded inside a Philadelphia home somehow ended with no fatalities.