World briefs

SOUTH KOREA President Park Geun-hye departure from the presidential palace came a day after tens of thousands of opponents and supporters divided the streets of downtown Seoul with massive rallies. Three people died and dozens were injured in violent clashes between Park’s supporters and police.

CHINA’s ruling Communist Party is hardening its rhetoric about Islam, with top officials making repeated warnings this past week about the specter of global religious extremism seeping into the country.

SINGAPORE Developer stocks soared as authorities eased some property-market curbs, with analysts saying the changes will buoy shares that have been weighed down by a three-year losing streak for house prices.

PHILIPPINES The government and communist rebels have agreed to resume peace talks and restore separate cease-fires after an escalation of deadly clashes, officials said yesterday. Just three days ago, President Duterte threatened to unleash an all-out war against the New People’s Army guerrillas after they killed four policemen and wounded another. 

NEPAL has asked India to investigate the fatal shooting of a Nepali man by Indian border guards. The 25-year-old man was shot by border guards last week during a dispute between people on both sides of the border over the construction of a culvert in the area.

LIBYA Hundreds if not thousands of armed men are converging on Libya’s main oil shipping terminals, which the rival powers in the country’s east and west are fighting to control in a battle being watched by global oil markets.

TURKEY-NETHERLANDS Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara would retaliate for the ousting of the Turkish family affairs minister from the Netherlands in an unprecedented midnight standoff outside the country’s Rotterdam consulate between a high-level government official and police in full gear.

SERBIA-RUSSIA Serbia’s defense minister says that the country is expecting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s approval for the delivery of fighter jets, which could worsen tensions with neighboring states.

BRAZIL Rio de Janeiro state plans to vaccinate its entire population against yellow fever as a precaution amid Brazil’s largest outbreak of the disease in years. The state said Saturday it expects to reach a 90 percent vaccination rate this year. It will need 12 million vaccine doses to do that.