World Briefs

CHINA warned the U.S. against trying to limit investment ties between the two countries, even as the Trump administration contradicted a report that Washington might be considering removing Chinese companies from American stock exchanges.

TAIWAN Fast-moving Typhoon Mitag was bearing down on northern Taiwan yesterday, bringing high winds and heavy rain and forcing scores of flight cancellations.

INDIA Heavy rains have killed more than 100 people in central Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states over the past three days, Indian officials said yesterday, as floodwaters submerged major cities, bringing them to a grinding halt.

SRI LANKA A court said yesterday that it would hear a petition challenging presidential hopeful Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s citizenship.

INDONESIA Thousands of Indonesian students resumed protests yesterday against a new law they say has crippled the country’s anti-corruption agency, with some clashing with police.

PAKISTAN Police say a suicide bombing has killed a policeman and wounded three others in the country’s restive southwest.

IRAN said yesterday that the missile-and-drone attack on major Saudi oil sites was an act of “legitimate defense” by Yemen’s Iran-allied Houthi rebels.

SLOVENIA-based carrier Adria Airways yesterday filed for receivership after having to suspend most of its flights over the past week amid financial woes.

MOROCCO Local authorities say they have recovered five more bodies after a rubber boat carrying Moroccan migrants capsized off the country’s Atlantic coast, raising the death toll to 12.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson battled to fend off allegations of improper patronage and groping a woman as he prepared a final push yesterday to fulfill his pledge to lead Britain out of the European Union in just over a month.

USA Former national security adviser John Bolton gave a characteristically pessimistic outlook on the prospects for getting North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons as he made his first public appearance since he was ousted from his post by President Donald Trump.