World Briefs

CHINA A nearly complete, new dinosaur fossil has been unearthed in China, the first in its family to have unusually short feathered wings. The new species named Zhenyuanlong suni is a close cousin of the dinosaur predator Velociraptor.

AUSTRALIA Johnny Depp’s wife, Amber Heard, is charged with illegally bringing the couple’s dogs to Australia — an incident that captured global attention after the nation’s agriculture minister angrily ordered the pooches to get out of the country or face death.

PAKISTAN-INDIA India and Pakistan trade blame for a series of firefights and shellings over the past two days along their border in the disputed Kashmir region that killed five civilians and wounded nine people.

S KOREA’s Supreme Court orders a new trial for a former spy chief convicted of directing an online campaign to smear a main opposition candidate in the 2012 presidential election.

IRAN’s president has pointed to another possible windfall from the nuclear deal with world powers — his country may soon be able to buy badly needed new planes for its aging fleet, the official IRNA news agency reported.

CAMBODIA’s prime minister added his voice yesterday to growing outrage over a drunken tycoon who was captured on video viciously attacking a female TV star, calling the man’s actions intolerable and warning that his riches will not help him escape justice. “Don’t think that because you have money you can escape,” Hun Sen said in comments directed at property tycoon Sok Bun, who is believed to have fled the country. “What you have done is intolerable.”

USA George H.W. Bush, the oldest living former U.S. president, fell at his summer home on Wednesday and broke a bone in his neck but was doing OK, a spokesman said. Bush, 91, was hospitalized in stable condition and was doing “fine” after Wednesday’s fall, spokesman Jim McGrath said. McGrath tweeted that the 41st president would be in a neck brace.

USA Barack Obama is set to become the first sitting U.S. President to visit the inside of a federal prison as part of a push to change the country’s justice system. Obama will meet separately with law enforcement officials and nonviolent drug offenders who are paying their debt to society at a medium-security prison for male offenders in the state of Oklahoma.