World Briefs

CHINA Authorities in eastern China have halted plans to build a trash incinerator after rowdy street protests by residents and the arrests of four people. The Haiyan county government in Zhejiang province said in a statement that hundreds of residents began to gather illegally last week and blocked roads.

NORTH KOREA says it successfully test-fired a ballistic missile from a submarine and warned of its growing ability to cut down its enemies with a “dagger of destruction.”

SYRIA Air strikes and shelling pounded Aleppo for the third straight day yesterday, killing two young siblings and at least 24 others in Syria’s largest city and former commercial capital.

AUSTRIA The law-and-order candidate of the country’s right-wing party swept the first round of presidential elections yesterday, gathering over 35 percent of the vote and leaving the other five candidates far behind.

COLOMBIAN President Juan Manuel Santos asked all his 15 ministers to resign ahead of a cabinet reshuffle. Santos told the New York Times that he needs to make changes to some ministries ahead of a peace deal with Marxist guerrillas that the government expects to sign soon.

NIGERIA deployed police and soldiers to gasoline stations to maintain order as fuel shortages grip Africa’s biggest oil producer. The most severe fuel scarcity in a year in Africa’s most populous nation has left motorists paying more than double the government’s official price for gasoline and put increasing pressure on a stagnating economy.

USA A 20-year-old man is facing charges after authorities say he tweeted out a bomb threat during a Donald Trump rally in Connecticut on Saturday.
Connecticut State Police say the U.S. Secret Service contacted them Saturday afternoon after they say Sean Morkys posted on Twitter, “Is someone going to bomb the trump rally or am I going to have to?”

SAUDI ARABIA’s King Salman fired the water and electricity minister following public complaints over a surge in prices less than six months after the government cut generous utility subsidies.