World Briefs

N.KOREA

 The crew of a Cathay Pacific flight saw what it believes was North Korea’s latest missile test last week, the second airline to report sighting it. Cathay said yesterday that the flight from San Francisco to Hong Kong reported witnessing the apparent re-entry of the ICBM. 

PHILIPPINES The manufacturer of a dengue fever vaccine that was suspended after a study showed a greater risk of severe cases in people without previous infection said it is working with authorities to address the fears.

INDIA

Rahul Gandhi, the scion of India’s Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty, submitted nomination papers yesterday to succeed his mother as president of the main opposition Congress party, which previously governed the country for decades.

US-PAKISTAN Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is meeting with Pakistan leaders to seek common ground on the counterterrorism fight and encourage Islamabad to more aggressively go after the insurgents moving across the border with Afghanistan.

YEMEN

Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen’s former president and longtime strongman, was killed yesterday, according to multiple Yemeni officials, as his loyalists and Shiite rebels battled for control of the capital.

ISRAEL’s internal security service says it has arrested two residents of southern Israel suspected of stabbing to death an Israeli soldier for nationalistic reasons.

MALTA Ten Maltese suspects were arrested yesterday over the Oct. 16 car bomb murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, Malta’s prime minister and other authorities announced.

SPAIN

The spokeswoman for a leading Catalan separatist party says a judge’s decision to keep the region’s former vice president jailed was politically motivated and an attempt to prevent him from running in a regional election this month.

VENEZUELA President Nicolas Maduro says his government will launch a cryptocurrency to fight what he calls a financial “blockade” by the Trump administration against the socialist-run country.

HONDURAS President Juan Orlando Hernandez held on to a lead of more than 52,000 votes in the country’s hotly-disputed presidential race, with less than 0.04 percent of ballots left to be counted.