World briefs

SOUTH KOREA’s embattled president accepted the resignation of her justice minister yesterday, the latest in a series of personnel reshuffles she’s made amid a political scandal that’s threatening her leadership. More on p12

PHILIPPINES An improvised bomb found in a trash bin near the U.S. Embassy and detonated by police has the same design as one used by local sympathizers of the Islamic State group in a Sept. 2 bomb attack that killed 15 people in southern Davao city, the Philippine police chief says.

NORTH KOREA is observing a three-day period of mourning for Fidel Castro, seen by the North as a rare comrade-in-arms against the common enemy of the United States. The North has ordered flags outside official buildings be flown at half-staff to honor Castro, and reports from Pyongyang said that a delegation of senior North Korean officials has left for Havana to attend Castro’s memorial services.

INDIA Thousands of people demonstrate across India to protest the government’s sudden decision to withdraw large-denomination currency from circulation, a move that has caused enormous hardship to millions of people in the country’s predominantly cash-based economy.

JAPAN An amusement park in western Japan sparks an uproar after it displayed about 5,000 dead fish in the ice at a skating rink, forcing the park to close the attraction. 

AUSTRALIA Aboriginal traditional dancers with faces painted white with clay traveled from remote northern Australia to Parliament House yesterday to draw attention to rampant domestic violence in Outback indigenous communities.

TURKMENISTAN-AFGHANISTAN  The presidents of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan yesterday officially opened a new railroad that will link the oil-rich former Soviet republic with Afghanistan. The first freight train has departed, carrying grain, flour and some construction materials to Afghanistan.

US Eight people were sent to hospitals yesterday with non-life-threatening injuries after an attack on the Ohio State University campus, fire and hospital officials said after the school sent a series of tweets telling students to shelter in place and to “Run Hide Fight.”

BRITAIN A pro-Europe think tank says it is willing to take the British government to court to try and keep the U.K. in the European Union single market once it leaves the bloc.

UNITED NATIONS The incoming secretary-general, Antonio Guterres, said yesterday that he wants U.N. peacekeepers to be better trained and more respectful of human rights, amid pressure on the organization to address a series of sexual abuse allegations.