World briefs

INDONESIA yesterday deported more than 140 Chinese and Taiwanese to China, where they are wanted for impersonating police and scamming businessmen and politicians out of several hundred million dollars.

JAPAN’s Dozens of firefighters battled a fire Thursday at Tokyo’s world-famous Tsukiji fish market, an area packed with tiny seafood vendors, sushi restaurants and tourists.

NORTH KOREA’s flurry of missile launches — 20 of them just in the past year — is a new and alarming fact of life for Japan and its other neighbors. 

INDIA Venturing outdoors may become deadly across wide swaths of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh by the end of the century as climate change drives heat and humidity to new extremes, according to a new study.

CAMBODIA A court sentenced an Australian woman and two Cambodian associates to 1 ½ year in prison for providing commercial surrogacy services in the country. 

NEW ZEALAND’s auditor-general resignes amid questions over how he handled a fraud case while he was head of the nation’s transport agency.

SYRIA Russia’s Defense Ministry announced a cease-fire for a third safe zone in war-torn Syria yesterday, paving the way for the delivery of sorely needed humanitarian relief to rebel-held areas north of the city of Homs.

UK Producers of a new documentary about Princess Diana say it offers insight. Critics say it’s nothing but exploitation. But a former bodyguard says Diana would have been pleased that candid recordings of her are being broadcast in Britain for the first time.

BRAZIL With his job on the line, President Michel Temer eked out a victory in a congressional vote over a bribery charge against him that has fueled angst and anger across Latin America’s largest nation.