World Briefs

CHINA Provincial authorities in northern China say they have suspended four local officials for inadequately responding to floods over the past week that killed 114 people and left 111 others missing. More on p10

CAMBODIA Tens of thousands of Cambodians marched in the funeral procession for a leading government critic who was fatally shot in an attack that raised suspicion of a political conspiracy.

AFGHANISTAN  marks a national day of mourning, a day after at least 80 people were killed by a suicide bomber attack on a peaceful demonstration. The attack was claimed by the Islamic State group. More on p13

NEPAL’s prime minister resigned yesterday shortly before he was to face a confidence vote in parliament that he expected to lose, further aggravating political instability in the Himalayan country.

RUSSIA The International Olympic Committee allowed Russian athletes with clean drug records to compete next month in Rio de Janeiro, stopping short of a complete ban of the country’s competitors after a massive state-backed doping program was exposed.

GERMANY The teenager behind the deadly shooting rampage at a Munich mall had planned his attack for a year and chose his victims at random, investigators said yesterday. The shooter, an 18-year-old German-Iranian, visited the site of a previous school shooting in the German town of Winnenden and took photographs last year, then set about planning Friday’s attack in which he killed nine people and wounded some three dozen others before taking his own life.

GERMANY A man with a machete killed a woman and injured two others in the southwestern city of Reutlingen before being arrested by police. The reason for the attack in the city south of Stuttgart was unclear.

NIGERIA Nigerian Sixteen soldiers are missing in action after an ambush by suspected Boko Haram militants on Friday in the north-eastern state of Borno, the army said. The soldiers were returning from an operation in the remote village of Guro Gongon when their vehicle got stuck in mud and came under fire, according to Lucky Irabor, commander of the counterinsurgency force in the northeast.