World briefs

AFGHANISTAN Taliban insurgents killed 26 Afghan civilians after abducting them in the remote central province of Ghor the previous day, officials said, the latest brutal attack targeting the local population in one of the country’s most lawless areas.

PAKISTAN’s city of Quetta shut down following a militant rampage at a police academy the day before as the victims’ families buried 60 police cadets and an army officer killed in the attack — one of the deadliest targeting Pakistani security forces in recent years.

JAPAN-PHILIPPINES The leaders of Japan and the Philippines agreed to cooperate in promoting regional peace and stability and endorsed Japan’s provision of patrol boats and military training aircraft to bolster Philippine maritime security.  More on p12

JAPAN Princess Aiko, the 14-year-old granddaughter of Emperor Akihito, has missed a month of school due to stomach problems and dizziness attributed to fatigue from studying and athletic events.

INDONESIA Officials say hopes are diminishing of finding alive any of the 11 men buried by a landslide at an illegal gold mine on the island of Sumatra. The miners are buried in a 50-meter-deep pit they dug themselves.

INDONESIA Taken from their sanctuary to an even remoter spot on the island of Borneo, a journey to freedom by road, boat and foot that takes nearly 24 hours, the orangutans bolted from their holding boxes and scaled the nearest trees with astonishing speed and agility.

NEW ZEALAND There are twice as many cows as people in New Zealand, but it’s the hobbits that are really making hay. New data show tourism has overtaken dairy as the nation’s top earner of overseas dollars.

REFUGEES The U.N. refugee agency says the death toll for migrants in the Mediterranean has reached at least 3,800 this year so far. The Geneva-based agency said on Twitter than this makes 2016 the deadliest year ever for migrants in the Mediterranean.

TURKEY’s state-run news agency says police have detained seven suspected Islamic State group militants in a raid in an apartment in Seyhan town. All were foreign nationals, but the agency did not identify which countries they were from.

GERMANY The government says it withdrew permission for a Chinese company to purchase semiconductor equipment company Aixtron due to security concerns. Germany announced that it was reconsidering the takeover bid by Fujian Grand Chip, which had bid 670m euros for Aixtron.