World Briefs

CHINA The city of Yulin went ahead with its annual dog-meat eating festival despite protests from animal rights activists. Vendors slaughtered dogs and cooked their meat in dozens of restaurants across the city.
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AFGHANISTAN The Taliban ambushes a series of buses and cars in southern Helmand province, forcing people out of the vehicles and abducting around 60 passengers.

JAPAN The utility that ran the Fukushima nuclear plant acknowledges its delayed disclosure of the meltdowns at three reactors was tantamount to a cover-up and apologizes.

VIETNAM A reporter had his press card revoked for “insulting” the military in an online post after a search plane crashed last week while looking for a missing fighter jet. More on p12

JORDAN A car bomb exploded yesterday near a Jordanian army post on the sealed border with war-ravaged Syria, killing six members of Jordan’s security forces and wounding 14 in what the military called a “cowardly terrorist attack.”

USA Hillary Clinton ripped Donald Trump’s management skills at a time of maximum political vulnerability for the Republican presumptive nominee, whose campaign is in turmoil over weak fundraising and upheaval within his inner circle. “Trump would throw us back into recession” and cause “millions of Americans to lose their jobs.”

SOUTH AFRICA Some residents in several poor areas of Pretoria blocked roads, looted shops and burned vehicles yesterday in riots attributed to discontent over the selection of the ruling party’s mayoral candidate.

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC The U.N. peacekeeping mission in the country says at least three civilians are dead after members of a “hostile and armed crowd” fired upon the forces and peacekeepers returned fire.

TURKEY Dozens of demonstrators have protested in Istanbul over the arrests of two journalists and an academic on charges of disseminating “terrorist propaganda.” A fourth journalist was released after a brief detention.

ENVIRONMENT A London-based advocacy group said it documented 185 killings of environmental activists around the world last year, nearly 60 percent more than in 2014. In a newly released report, Global Witness said Brazil topped the 16-country list with 50 environmental defenders slain in 2015, followed by the Philippines with 33 and Colombia with 26.