World Briefs

PHILIPPINES President Rodrigo Duterte is cutting short his trip to Japan due to “unbearable pain” in his spinal column caused by his fall during a motorcycle ride last week, his spokesman said yesterday.

THAILAND Police are investigating the death of a German woman after arresting a German man for allegedly dumping her body into a canal.

MALAYSIA Prosecutors yesterday sought a court change for Goldman Sachs’s criminal trial over its role in the alleged multibillion-dollar ransacking of state investment fund 1MDB.

SRI LANKA The daughter of a Sri Lankan journalist assassinated during the country’s civil war says she’ll appeal a U.S. court’s decision to throw out her lawsuit against Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the front-runner in Sri Lanka’s upcoming presidential election.

INDIA The Trump administration remains concerned about the ongoing crackdown in India-administered Kashmir, the restive Himalayan region stripped of its special constitutional status in August, but supports India’s development “objectives” there, a U.S. diplomat said in a statement yesterday ahead of a congressional hearing in Washington.

TURKEY The presidents of Turkey and Russia met in the Black Sea resort town of Sochi yesterday, hours before a five-day cease-fire in northern Syria between Turkish troops and Syrian Kurdish fighters was set to expire.

BOLIVIA Rioting broke out in parts of Bolivia among opponents of President Evo Morales after electoral authorities announced that a resumed vote count put the leader close to avoiding a runoff in his bid for a fourth term.

UK British lawmakers from across the political spectrum plotted yesterday to put the brakes on Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s drive to push his European Union divorce bill through the House of Commons in just three days, potentially scuttling the government’s hopes of delivering Brexit by Oct. 31.

US Some Democrats are putting up caution signs for Hillary Clinton as she wades back into presidential politics by casting 2020 candidate Tulsi Gabbard as a “Russian asset,” mocking President Donald Trump’s dealings with a foreign leader and drawing counterattacks from both.

US  Behind closed doors, President Donald Trump has made his views on Ukraine clear: “They tried to take me down.”