World Briefs

CHINA demanded Washington lift newly imposed sanctions on Chinese tech companies but said yesterday that envoys will go ahead with a U.S. trip for trade talks despite the latest spike in tensions.

US-CHINA The Trump Administration is blocking shipments from a Chinese company making baby pajamas sold at Costco warehouses, after the foreign manufacturer was accused of forcing ethnic minorities locked in an internment camp to sew clothes against their will.

JAPAN Nissan tapped the head of its China business, Makoto Uchida, as its new president and chief executive, replacing Hiroto Saikawa, who resigned after acknowledging receiving dubious income.

INDIA Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir will allow tourists back into the region two months after ordering them to leave because of security concerns amid an Indian crackdown, an official said yesterday.

ETHIOPIAN Airlines’ former chief engineer says in a whistleblower complaint filed with regulators that the carrier went into the maintenance records on a Boeing 737 Max jet a day after it crashed this year, a breach he contends was part of a pattern of corruption that included fabricating documents, signing off on shoddy repairs and even beating those who got out of line.

THAILAND Police in Thailand have arrested a political activist accused of threatening national security by posting a comment on Facebook about how royal families in other nations lost power.

TURKEY will not bow to threats over its Syria plans, the Turkish vice president said yesterday in an apparent response to President Donald Trump’s warning to Ankara the previous day about the scope of its planned military incursion into northeastern Syria.

RUSSIA The government denied it has any troops in Mozambique, after reports that a Russian soldier was killed in the southern African country.

FRANCE has delivered to India its first Rafale fighter jet from a series of 36 aircraft purchased in a multi-billion dollar deal in 2016.

UK Hundreds of climate change activists camped out in central London on yesterday during a second day of world protests by the Extinction Rebellion movement to demand more urgent actions to counter global warming.

USA Samuel Little, the inmate who claims to have killed more than 90 women across the country is now considered to be the deadliest serial killer in U.S. history, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said.

USA Joe Biden unveiled an education plan yesterday that focuses on making colleges more affordable and strengthening pathways to the middle class that do not require a bachelor’s degree.