World Briefs

CHINA Citizens of China have reacted with anger and alarm at news of a massive illegal vaccine operation uncovered in Shandong province. The vaccine ring involved hundreds of people and affected 24 provinces and cities.

CHINA’s state-controlled media has weighed in on U.S. President Obama’s historic visit to Cuba, warning the island nation of American motives, “arrogance” and “interventionism” in Latin America.

MYANMAR The new parliament voted to reduce the number of government ministries, with President-elect Htin Kyaw assuring lawmakers that no civil servants will lose their jobs and that the nation will save USD4 million.

AUSTRALIA Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull warns that he will dissolve both houses of parliament and call early elections if the Senate fails to pass two labor reform bills, which he insists are critical but opponents say are unfair.

IRAN Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has accused the U.S. of reneging on the West’s nuclear deal with the country, signed last year, by seeking to undermine Iranian banks.

U.S. A lawyer for a Temple University professor who had been accused of scheming to provide secret U.S. technology to China says federal prosecutors won’t refile charges after they dropped the case against him last year.

TURKEY-GREECE Officials from Turkey and Greece are set to begin discussions on how to implement last week’s deal on migrant repatriation. Under the EU-Turkey agreement, migrants arriving in Greece are to be sent back to Turkey if they do not apply for asylum or if their claim is rejected.

BELGIUM National prosecutors say that DNA has identified an accomplice, Najim Laachraoui, of captured Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam. A statement said that he had been using false ID and that his DNA had been found in houses used by the suspected jihadist network.

BOSNIAN Serb officials in Bosnia have named a student dormitory after Radovan Karadzic, the former president who is now accused of involvement in genocide and war crimes during the 1990s Bosnian civil war.