World Briefs

CHINA 34 bodies have been found and four people were still missing following a landslide at the site of a hydropower project after days of heavy rain in southern China, authorities said.

CHINA Chinese authorities are questioning the crew of a Maltese-flagged ship that collided with a Chinese fishing boat over the weekend, killing at least two sailors and leaving 17 others missing.

NORTH KOREA expels a BBC journalist it had detained days earlier for allegedly “insulting the dignity” of the authoritarian country, which has invited scores of foreign media for its ongoing ruling party congress. Yesterday, the conclave elected Kim as chairman of the Workers Party.

JAPAN Auto parts maker Takata Corp. is expecting a loss instead of a profit for the fiscal year that ended in March because of ballooning costs from a massive global air-bag recall. Tokyo-based Takata said yesterday it is projecting an annual net loss of 13 billion yen.

USA Many Republican voters in conservative Utah are experiencing an acute version of the political panic attack gripping much of the party: Some can’t bring themselves to vote for Donald Trump, while others say sitting out the election would amount to a vote for Hillary Clinton.

USA The heroin and painkiller crisis has pushed elected leaders from coast to coast to consider the once-unthinkable: government-sanctioned sites where heroin users can shoot up under medical supervision. While such sites have operated for years overseas, they face a long list of legal and political challenges in the U.S.

BREXIT Raising the stakes in Britain’s European Union membership debate, Prime Minister David Cameron said that leaving the bloc would increase the risk of war in Europe. Cameron’s speech on national security came as campaigning ahead of a June 23 vote on the country’s EU membership moved into its final weeks.

UK London’s newly elected Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan has joined an annual memorial to Jews slain in the Holocaust as his first public act in office.

GREECE’s Parliament in a narrow vote has approved a bill reforming the debt-ridden country’s pension and tax systems. Outside, anarchists have hurled firebombs, chairs and wooden planks at riot police in brief clashes outside parliament while lawmakers were debating a controversial austerity bill.

UEFA Michel Platini will resign as UEFA president after failing to overturn his ban at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which cut his sanction from six to four years. Platini called the verdict a “deep injustice” and said he will now step down from the UEFA position he has held since 2007.