World briefs
SOUTH ASIA Heavy monsoon rains have unleashed landslides and floods that have killed at least 160 people and displaced millions of others across northern India, southern Nepal and Bangladesh.
AUSTRALIA’s deputy prime minister became the latest lawmaker to reveal he might have breached a constitutional prohibition on dual citizens becoming lawmakers, after the New Zealand government declared he was a kiwi.
INDONESIA A man who killed himself during an armed Los Angeles standoff last week was reportedly an important witness in a sweeping corruption investigation in Indonesia.
IRAN Chanting “Death to America,” Iran’s parliament voted unanimously to increase spending on its ballistic missile program and the foreign operations of its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, part of a sanctions bill mirroring a new U.S. law targeting the country.
JAPAN’s economy grew at a hearty 4.0 percent annual pace in the April-June quarter, helped by stronger consumer spending and corporate capital investment.
UK Southampton is the latest English football team to fall under Chinese ownership. Jisheng Gao, chairman of Chinese sports investment company Lander, has bought an 80 percent stake in Southampton with daughter, Nelly Gao, for USD272 million.
US An Ohio man accused of ramming his car into a crowd of protesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia will remain in jail – at least until he has an attorney. Judge Robert Downer declined to set bond at a hearing yesterday for James Alex Fields Jr., who faces second-degree murder and other charges, until he has legal representation.
BURKINA FASO’s government spokesman says that the country’s special forces have ended an attack by suspected Islamic extremists on an upscale Turkish restaurant in this West African country’s capital, Ouagadougou.
