World Briefs

CHINA A diocese in central China ordains the country’s first Catholic bishop in three years amid tensions between Beijing and the Vatican and a strained relationship between the Chinese leadership and the Christian religion in general.

NEPAL Villagers recover the remains of 17 people who went missing when their village was buried by a landslide triggered by the devastating earthquake that hit the country on April 25.

NEPAL About 500 protesters demanding Nepal be declared a Hindu state in the country’s new constitution clash with police.

AFGHANISTAN  The United Nations says an increasing number of women and children are getting hurt or killed in Afghanistan’s war against the Taliban and other insurgents. More on p13

PAKISTAN’s Supreme Court rules to allow military trials for terror suspects — the latest in the government’s intensified campaign against terrorism in the wake of last year’s Taliban attack on a school that killed nearly 150 people, almost all of them children.

AFGHANISTAN A close aide of Pakistan’s prime minster says he is optimistic the stalled peace talks between Kabul and the Taliban will resume soon in the interest of peace in Afghanistan.
INDIA Two paramilitary soldiers and one suspected rebel are killed in Indian-controlled Kashmir after a convoy of paramilitary troops was ambushed.

PHILIPPINES Officials say flash floods caused by heavy rain have killed at least seven people, including four children.

THAILAND Security officials in insurgency-wracked southern Thailand are proceeding with a plan to ban the use of metal home cooking-gas tanks because they are often used to make deadly improvised bombs.

GREECE’s left-wing government wants to get a full bailout deal with creditors this month, rejecting the idea of an extension in negotiations. Nikos Fylis, a parliamentary spokesman for the ruling Syriza party, said yesterday that a proposal by rescue lenders to prolong the talks and give Athens an interim loan is “off the table.”

MYANMAR Setting aside decades of animosity and suspicion, senior Myanmar government and military officials hold unprecedented discussions with representatives of the main opposition party and ethnic minorities in Washington on fighting a common enemy — malaria.

ITALY Coast Guard commander Filippo Marini says 400 migrants have been saved from a shipwreck off the coast of Libya and 25 bodies have been recovered so far. Marini said the rescue operation is still ongoing, involving seven ships. He said survivors have indicated that between 400 and 600 people were on board the ship when it capsized yesterday.