World briefs

CHINESE President Xi Jinping called yesterday for leaders of the United States, Germany and other major economies to resist pressure to raise trade barriers as they opened the Group of 20 summit amid sluggish global growth.

BANGLASDESH Authorities executed a top Islamist party leader convicted of war crimes involving the nation’s 1971 independence war against Pakistan, officials said.

PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo Duterte declared a nationwide “state of lawlessness” Saturday after suspected Abu Sayyaf extremists detonated a bomb that killed 14 people and wounded about 70 in his southern hometown.

BRAZIL’s President Michel Temer said it will take time to bring calm to his country following the ouster of his predecessor and described street protests against his government as isolated and undemocratic.

DANISH police say they have no evidence that a gun attack in a Copenhagen suburb known for its hashish trade was ordered by the Islamic State group. The IS-affiliated Aamaq news agency posted a statement Friday saying that the attacker was “a soldier of the Islamic State who carried out the operation in response to calls to target coalition states.”

FRENCH President Francois Hollande says he wants other world leaders to better regulate the global economy to protect workers and the environment.
In a Facebook post laying out his goals at the Group of 20 summit in China, Hollande said yesterday that “France’s role is to contribute to regulating the planet.”

POLAND’s government stepped up criticism of judges after they likened its justice-system revamps to attempts to change the country’s democratic order. An extraordinary congress of 1,000 Polish judges called on the government to respect the constitutional division of power and said the justice system was the target of a smear campaign unprecedented since communism ended in 1989.

NIGERIA Boko Haram militants operated a network of financial services including interest-free loans and goods supplied on credit in order to recruit members for the Islamist group, according to the international aid agency, Mercy Corps.