World Briefs

CHINA-USA A physics professor who had been accused of scheming to provide secret U.S. technology to China said he’s grateful and relieved prosecutors dropped the case against him, and is thankful to friends and colleagues who supported him. Xi Xiaoxing released a statement Saturday calling the case a nightmare in which he “suffered professionally, mentally, physically, and financially.” The U.S. attorney’s office in Philadelphia declined to comment on the motion the office filed Friday seeking to drop four counts of wire fraud against Xi.

USA The company that managed Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private email server says it has no knowledge that the served was “wiped,” which could mean that more than 30,000 emails Clinton says she deleted from the device could be recovered, according to a report in The Washington Post.

USA A growing divide has emerged in the Republican Party’s unruly presidential contest, as the race bid farewell to a once-powerful contender. On one side stands billionaire businessman Donald Trump and his allies, on the other are those who oppose him. A day after Rick Perry, Texas’ longest-serving governor, ended his second Republican presidential run with a whimper, Trump marked the shake-up by embracing his role as his party’s 2016 bully on Saturday.

USA An explosive wildfire raced across several rural communities in Northern California, charring more than 155 square kilometers over a matter of hours, chasing thousands of people from their homes and sending four firefighters to the hospital with second-degree burns.

THAILAND  The good news for the Chinese visitor to Bangkok was that a doctor had successfully removed a foreign object from her large intestine that could have damaged her digestive system. The bad news: It was a 10 million baht (USD278,000) diamond the woman was accused of stealing from a jewelry fair, adding a piece of rock-hard evidence to the case against her.

UK A veteran anti-war campaigner known for his unapologetically socialist views has won a landslide victory to lead Britain’s opposition Labour Party — an outcome that delighted supporters and dismayed others who never imagined he could be elected. The overwhelming support for far-left lawmaker Jeremy Corbyn, 66, was one of the biggest shake-ups in British politics in decades.

YEMEN’s internationally recognized president will not participate in U.N.-brokered talks later this week with Shiite rebels who control the capital and much of the country’s north, his office said yesterday.