INDONESIA A suicide bomber blew himself up at a busy police station in Indonesia’s third-largest city yesterday, wounding at least six people. The attack came during a counterterrorism crackdown and as authorities were on heightened alert for possible attacks against police and places of worship following a militant attack last month.
NORTH KOREA’s supreme decision-making body lashed out yesterday at planned U.S.-South Korean military drills and warned that the United States will face a “bigger threat and harsh suffering” if it ignores North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s end-of-year deadline to salvage nuclear talks.
AUSTRALIA The highest court agreed yesterday to hear an appeal from the most senior Catholic to be found guilty of sexually abusing children, giving Cardinal George Pell his last chance at getting his convictions overturned.
INDIA Britain’s Prince Charles met with Indian experts yesterday during a visit to the country focusing on global challenges such as climate change and business sustainability. The Prince of Wales discussed how to strengthen disaster resilience and tackle the effects of climate change at the Indian Meteorological Department in New Delhi.
NEW ZEALAND Lawmakers yesterday voted in favor of a bill to legalize euthanasia, a watershed moment that ended a contentious two-year debate. More on p13
SWEDEN Swedish prosecutor says an Iranian citizen has been jailed on suspicion of carrying out crimes against humanity and murder in the late 1980s in Iran, the same time period of mass executions by Tehran.
BOLIVIA New interim president, until now a second-tier lawmaker, faces the challenge of stabilizing the nation and organizing national elections within three months at a time of bloody political disputes that pushed the nation’s first indigenous leader to fly off to self-exile in Mexico after 14 years in power. Some people took to the streets cheering and waving national flags yesterday [local time] when Jeanine Añez, who had been second-vice president of the Senate, claimed the presidency after higher ranking successors to the had post resigned.
SLOVAKIA A bus collided with a truck in Slovakia yesterday, killing at least 13 people and injuring at least 20 more. Reports say that the bus was carrying high school students.
SPAIN Authorities say that they will attempt the exhumation of some of the thousands of people buried on the site of a grandiose mausoleum where the remains of dictator Gen. Francisco Franco were held until last month.
US President Donald Trump lashed out at a pair of witnesses who testified as the House impeachment inquiry goes public. Trump tweeted “NEVER TRUMPERS!” before yesterday’s hearing opened on Capitol Hill with testimony from William Taylor, the charge d’affaires in Ukraine, and George Kent, a career diplomat.
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