World briefs

CHINA A city government in Guangdong has revoked approval of a planned waste incinerator in response to protests, in the latest case of local authorities bowing to a public outcry over health concerns.

YEMEN Iran dispatches a destroyer and another naval ship to waters off Yemen, raising the stakes amid Saudi-led airstrikes targeting rebels in the country while the Islamic Republic’s diplomats call for a political solution to the crisis.

NORTH KOREA has deported an American woman who frequently visited the country over the past 20 years, accusing her of engaging in “plot-breeding and propaganda.”

CAMBODIA Lawmakers overwhelmingly approve a vote to remake the country’s electoral body, part of a political deal to help ensure fairness in the next national vote in 2018. Opposition leader Sam Rainsy calls it a “historic milestone for Cambodia.”

ITALY A gunman opened fire in a Milan courtroom, killing a judge and as many as two other people before being captured as he tried to flee on a motorbike, news reports and Italy’s interior minister said.

BANGLADESH A police officer says an overnight bus packed with passengers veered off the road, hit trees and plunged into a ditch, killing at least 24 people and injuring 22 others
Pakistan A court ordered the release of the main suspect in the 2008 Mumbai attacks for the second time in less than a month, a defense lawyer said. A March 13 verdict also ordered the release of Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, but he remained in detention as Pakistan faces mounting pressure to more actively confront Islamic militants.

NETHERLANDS Scores of prostitutes have taken to the streets of Amsterdam to protest moves to rejuvenate the city’s famed Red Light District by shuttering windows where scantily-clad sex workers pose to attract clients. The prostitutes say that the closures are depriving them of safe places to work.

UKRAINE Amnesty International said that it has evidence that Russian-backed separatists in east Ukraine have killed several captured government soldiers in gross violation of international humanitarian law.

RUSSIA A relative of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev says she remains convinced he had nothing to do with the Boston Marathon bombing, arguing that neither he nor his now-dead elder brother had any reason to carry out the terrorist attack. Tsarnaev was found guilty on Wednesday of all 30 counts against him, and now the same jury in Boston must decide whether he should be sentenced to death or to life in prison.

UK The heir to the British throne and his consort, Camilla, are celebrating 10 years of marriage — a decade in which Camilla’s public image has gone from aristocratic home-wrecker to admired addition to the royal family. Prince Charles and Camilla are celebrating the anniversary privately at the royals’ Balmoral estate in Scotland.