World briefs

PERU The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum is taking place in Peru as world leaders are on edge over Trump’s campaign pledges to protect U.S. jobs by backing out of the not-yet-implemented Trans-Pacific Partnership and renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement.

MALAYSIAN authorities said yesterday that another two Indonesian fishermen have been abducted by armed men off eastern Sabah state on Borneo island, the second such case this month and the latest in a spate of sea attacks.

INDONESIA A collision between a Vietnamese freighter and an Indonesian sailboat left 15 people missing off Indonesia’s East Java province. The cargo ship MV Thaison 4 and the KM Mulya Sejati, which was carrying 27 people, collided before dawn Saturday off Tuban district.

INDONESIA More than 10,000 Indonesians took to the streets of their capital to call for tolerance and unity in the world’s most populous Muslim nation, after police opened a blasphemy investigation into the city’s Christian governor.

UK Britain’s Treasury chief says the economy could face a slowdown because of the uncertainty caused by the U.K.’s decision to leave the European Union.

Philip Hammond said yesterday that “we’re going to have an unprecedented level of uncertainty, and that’s one of the factors causing many commentators to predict that there will be a slowing of economic growth.”

USA An air-ambulance plane taking a heart-disease patient to a Utah hospital crashed in a parking lot in northern Nevada, killing all four people aboard and sending up explosions and flames. Three crew members and a patient were killed in the Friday night crash in Elko, American Medflight said Saturday in a statement.

FRENCH conservatives voted in a nationwide primary for the first time yesterday to choose their nominee for next year’s presidential election, after a campaign marked by concerns about immigration and Islamic extremism.

GERMANY Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble evoked Germany’s Nazi past to warn modern-day populists against the dangers of mimicking the harsh rhetoric used in the U.S. election. Schaeuble said during a panel discussion on the U.S. election and populism in Europe: “We’ve had enough of this in Germany, we don’t need this any more. We mustn’t make minorities the scapegoats of problems we can’t solve ourselves. Whoever starts this, ends up where we once were in Germany, at the end of German history.”