World briefs

HONG KONG A pro-democracy activist said Friday he was briefly abducted and tortured by suspected mainland Chinese security agents who stapled his legs as a warning against sending a signed photo of soccer star Lionel Messi to a dissident’s widow.

UNITED STATES A car rammed into a crowd of protesters and a state police helicopter crashed into the woods Saturday as tension boiled over at a white supremacist rally. 

NEPAL Landslides and flooding triggered by heavy rain have killed at least 47 people in southern Nepal and left thousands homeless, police said yesterday. The death toll was expected to go up, with around two dozen other people missing and feared dead after three days of heavy downpours.

INDIA Soldiers and rescue workers in northern India pulled out 13 bodies from two buses buried in mud from a landslide that was triggered yesterday by heavy monsoon rains. Police said more victims may still be found in the debris.

ISRAEL The world’s oldest man who lived through both World Wars and survived the Auschwitz concentration camp has passed away just a month short of his 114th birthday, his family said Saturday. Israel Kristal was born to an Orthodox Jewish family near the town of Zarnow in Poland in 1903.

KENYAN opposition leader Raila Odinga urged his supporters to skip work today to protest what he charged were rigged elections that gave victory to President Uhuru Kenyatta. The government denounced violent demonstrations as unlawful and urged Kenyans to return to their jobs. More on FT

EGYPT’s prosecution ordered yesterday the detention of four people including two train drivers for 15 days over a deadly train crash near the coastal city of Alexandria that killed 43 people and injured scores, judicial officials said.