World briefs

CHINA China opens an exhibition of guns and photos of massacres to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the World War II victory over Japan, part of a propaganda push to stir up nationalism.

AFGHANISTAN The Taliban stage two separate suicide bombings in Kabul, killing at least one person and wounding three, including a NATO soldier.

THAILAND A military court releases 14 student activists from detention but says they still face sedition charges for defying the junta’s ban on political gatherings.

INDIA Young Indians embrace social dating apps, defying conservative traditions and social taboos.

JAPAN The American Toyota executive who was arrested in Japan on suspicion of drug law violations is expected to be released today without being prosecuted, according to a media report.

JAPAN The world’s oldest man, a retired educator in Japan, dies at age 112. Sakari Momoi died from kidney failure Sunday at a nursing home in Tokyo, said Saitama city official Aya Kato.

S KOREA Samsung Electronics Co. forecasts a fall in second-quarter profit in a sign that sales of its Galaxy S6 smartphones failed to meet expectations.

ECUADOR Pope Francis has a whirlwind final full day in Ecuador, with a Mass in the capital of Quito sandwiched between meetings with bishops, indigenous groups and university students, capped by a visit to a Jesuit church.

USA The push to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse is about to clear its first hurdle. But even if a bill to bring down the rebel banner passes the state Senate as expected, it faces a less certain future in the House.

KENYA At least 14 people are killed in an attack in the country’s north by al-Shabab, Islamic extremist rebels from neighboring Somalia, a Kenyan official says.

NIGERIA A bomb blast in Nigeria’s northern university town of Zaria killed 20 people yesterday, the Kaduna state governor reported, the latest in a string of deadly bombing and shooting attacks by the Boko Haram Islamic extremist group.

FRANCE-UK A migrant who stowed away on a truck in the Channel Tunnel was found dead yesterday, disrupting travel between France and England for a third week in a row, police and the tunnel operator said.