World briefs

CHINA McDonald’s will start selling beef and chicken burgers in some Chinese cities again, resuming its full menu almost two weeks after a supplier came under investigation for using expired meat. Customers in Chinese cities including Beijing and Guangzhou will be able to buy all the items on the menu later this week, Oak Brook, Illinois-based McDonald’s said in a statement yesterday, without specifying the date or number of cities. It’s also increasing orders from other existing suppliers in China while exploring new ones, the maker of the Big Mac burger said.

CHINA The death toll in an explosion at a Chinese auto parts factory rises to 75 people, as investigators fault poor safety measures and news reports reveal that workers had long complained of dangerous levels of dust. More on p10

TAIWAN Authorities are preparing to inspect thousands of miles of pipeline after the government blamed the island’s deadliest industrial accident on a chemicals company. At least 305 people were injured in the explosions; four policemen and fire fighters were also killed. More than 4km of city roads were destroyed, Kaohsiung’s government said yesterday.

NEPAL Rescuers recovered two more bodies, taking the death toll to 10 from a massive weekend landslide in northern Nepal, but said there was no chance of finding alive any of the more than 150 people believed still buried under the rubble.

INDIA Rescue workers in eastern India urgently evacuated tens of thousands of people yesterday after a deadly landslide in neighboring Nepal blocked a river that could burst its banks and submerge scores of Indian villages.

PHILIPPINES A strong typhoon that has worsened seasonal monsoon rains in the Philippines will linger offshore until Thursday, raising fears of more flooding. Forecasters said, however, that Typhoon Halong was too far off at sea to hit the country directly.

NIGERIA Authorities yesterday confirmed a second case of Ebola in Africa’s most populous country, an alarming setback as officials across the region battle to stop the spread of a disease that has killed more than 700 people. The confirmed second case is a doctor who had helped treat Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American man who died July 25 days after arriving in Nigeria from Liberia.

LIBYA A British warship that evacuated 110 citizens from Libya arrived in Malta yesterday, bringing the total number of evacuees by ship to the island in the last two days to 361. Libya is experiencing its worst violence since the 2011 civil war, which toppled Moammar Gadhafi. Armed militias that overthrew Gadhafi are fighting each other for control of the oil-rich country.

SYRIA Rebels kill 10 Lebanese troops and likely capture over a dozen more in an ongoing raid on a Lebanese border town, the country’s military chief says, the most serious spillover of violence yet into the tiny country from its neighbor’s civil war. The capture raises fears Lebanon could become further entangled in the Syrian civil war and could worsen already-brewing sectarian tensions.

ISRAEL An Israeli-declared temporary cease-fire and troop withdrawals slowed violence in the Gaza war yesterday, though an attack on an Israeli bus that killed one person in Jerusalem underscored the tensions still simmering in the region.