World Briefs

TIBET A nun set herself on fire while crying out for the Dalai Lama to return to Tibet in the latest in dozens of self-immolations in recent years by Tibetans protesting Beijing’s controls over the region, overseas rights groups said. Yeshi Khando, 47, of Ngangang Nunnery circled Kardze Monastery in Sichuan province and then self-immolated on Wednesday near the police station while shouting slogans including “Tibet needs freedom,” London-based Free Tibet said in a statement Friday.

PHILIPPINES  Two Chinese men were stabbed to death and another was injured in violence among crew members of a cargo ship that radioed Filipino authorities for medical help, Philippine police said yesterday. Philippine authorities boarded MV Qing May after it docked and brought an injured Chinese crewman to a hospital in southern Zamboanga city early yesterday with the permission of the ship’s skipper, Zamboanga police director Angelito Casimiro said. The bodies of two other Chinese crewmen, which had stab wounds, were kept on board the ship.
S Korea-Libya Gunmen opened fire early yesterday at the local guards of the South Korean Embassy in the Libyan capital, killing one of them as well as a civilian who was in the area, a Libyan security official said. The South Korean Foreign Ministry said in a statement that no embassy officials were killed or wounded in the attack. It said the gunmen fired nearly 40 rounds with a machine gun.

IRAQ Islamic State militants hammered, bulldozed and ultimately blew up parts of the ancient Iraqi Assyrian city of Nimrud, destroying a site dating back to the 13th century B.C., an online militant video purportedly shows.

EGYPTIAN security officials say a large explosion has struck a main police station in the capital of the northern Sinai province. The officials say they suspect a car bomb caused yesterday’s blast. They say 15 civilians from the surrounding area have been hospitalized. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters. There was no immediate word on police casualties.

YEMEN’s Houthi rebels have killed three Saudi border guards in a mortar attack, the Saudi Defense Ministry said Saturday, as a plane loaded with medical aid arrived in the rebel-held Yemeni capital. An unnamed military official quoted in the Defense Ministry statement said the incident took place Friday in the Saudi border province of Najran.

KENYA One Kenyan student was killed and 141 injured in a stampede yesterday on the campus of the University of Nairobi when students mistook several accidental explosions for an extremist attack, according to an official. One male third-year student was killed in the crush of students, Peter Mbithi, Vice Chancellor of the University of Nairobi, told The Associated Press. The injured students have been taken to hospitals for treatment, he said.

USA Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign will center on boosting economic security while casting her as a “tenacious fighter” able to get results, two advisers said ahead of her planned campaign launch yesterday.