World Briefs

SINGAPORE A court sentenced the founder of a website that published anti-foreign content to eight months in jail after he pleaded guilty to sedition. Yang Kaiheng set up “The Real Singapore” website together with his Australian wife, Ai Takagi, and helped distribute accounts from visitors, some of which contained inaccuracies, the court said.

MONGOLIANS vote in parliamentary elections today with sentiment weighed by a sharp downturn in the landlocked Asian nation’s crucial mining sector, rising unemployment and political disillusionment.

YEMEN An airstrike by a Saudi-led coalition targeting Shiite rebels in Yemen’s southern province of Taiz killed 25 people — 15 fighters and 10 civilians, security officials said.

ITALY Bud Spencer, a burly comic actor dubbed the “good giant” for punching out bad guys on the screen, often in a long series of spaghetti westerns, has died in Italy. He was 86. Italian news agency ANSA quoted his son, Giuseppe Pedersoli, as saying without adding medical details that his father died peacefully Monday evening.

UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn lost a no-confidence vote, deepening the crisis that’s enveloped Britain’s main opposition party in the wake of the Brexit referendum. Labour lawmakers backed the no-confidence motion by 172 votes to 40. Corbyn responded by pledging to carry on as leader, despite the resignation of more than 50 of his team in the past three days. The vote is advisory rather than binding.

SWITZERLAND Nestle has selected health care executive Ulf Mark Schneider as its new CEO, the first chief executive brought in from outside the company since 1922 as the food and drinks giant seeks to evolve into a nutrition, health and wellness business.

SYRIAN rebels aided by U.S.-led airstrikes launched an offensive against an Islamic State stronghold near the Iraqi border yesterday, hoping to sever one of the extremists’ main transit links between the two countries, a rebel spokesman said.

SOUTH SUDAN A new rebel group has formed against the government months after a peace deal was signed with another rebel group to end a deadly civil war. The new group led by veteran politician Ali Tamim Fartak has fought with government troops in the remote Wau region, leading to the reported deaths of about 39 civilians and four police.

USA Volkswagen AG has agreed to spend more than USD15 billion to get hundreds of thousands of emissions-cheating diesel vehicles off U.S. roads and placate regulators, in settlements that set a U.S. auto-industry record but still leave VW facing criminal and civil complaints on three continents.