World Briefs

CHINA-US As the U.S. warned allies around the world that Chinese tech giant Huawei was a security threat, the FBI was making the same point quietly to a Midwestern university.

NORTH KOREA sent a group of working-level officials to Dandong, China, last week to prepare for a possible visit by its leader Kim Jong Un, according to South Korean newspaper Dong-A Ilbo.

NORTH KOREA The government said it’s not keen to hold more talks with the U.S. until measures are taken to withdraw Washington’s “hostile policy” toward Pyongyang.

AFGHANISTAN The Taliban met with a U.S. envoy in the Pakistani capital, a Taliban official said, the first such encounter since President Donald Trump announced a month ago that a seemingly imminent peace deal to end Afghanistan’s 18-year war was dead.

SAUDI ARABIA plans to drop a requirement for men and women visiting the kingdom to prove they’re related to share a hotel room, part of authorities’ efforts to open the country to tourism.

IRAN Microsoft said that hackers linked to the Iranian government targeted a U.S. presidential campaign, as well as government officials, media targets and prominent expatriate Iranians.

PORTUGAL held a general election yesterday, with the center-left Socialist Party widely expected to collect most votes and stay in power for another four years.

FRANCE Conservative activists are gathering in Paris to protest a French bill that would give lesbian couples and single women access to in vitro fertilization and related procedures.

GERMANY A 25-year-old man turned himself in to Austrian police yesteday after allegedly killing his ex-girlfriend, her family and her new boyfriend in the Alpine resort town of Kitzbuehel.

USA A former Georgia police officer who fatally shot a fleeing, unarmed black man was acquitted of voluntary manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter.