World Briefs

ISRAEL

 Arabs and Muslims across a Middle East on edge warned yesterday that President Donald Trump’s anticipated announcement recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital would inflame Muslim feelings worldwide and bring further chaos and instability to the region.

MALAYSIA-N. ZEALAND Malaysia rolled out the red carpet yesterday for New Zealand’s governor general, who is marking 60 years of diplomatic ties between the countries.

INDIA The Sri Lanka cricket board has complained to the sport’s governing body about the poor air quality in which its players have been compelled to play a test match in the Indian capital New Delhi.

RUSSIA-INDONESIAThe Russian military says its strategic bombers have flown to Indonesia for a showcase. The visit by the bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons underlined Russia’s resurgent military might and its desire to expand its foothold around the world.

RUSSIA

President Vladimir Putin yesterday declared his intention to seek re-election next March, a vote he appears certain to win. The Russian leader chose an enthusiastic audience of the GAZ automobile factory workers in Nizhny Novgorod to make the announcement.

QATAR A planned two-day summit of Gulf Arab countries fell apart within hours of starting over the ongoing boycott of Qatar, underscoring the difficulty of ending the crisis and suggesting that unifying the bloc of U.S. allies is slipping further from reach.

YEMEN

Rebel forces have dispersed a protest staged by dozens of women in the capital, Sanaa, demanding the handover of the body of slain former President Ali Abdullah Saleh for burial.

MALTA A court charged three men with the car-bomb slaying of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, as details from the investigation indicated she was killed by a remote-controlled explosion of TNT.

SPAIN has announced its second-biggest cocaine seizure ever, a near six metric-ton haul with a street value estimated at 210 million euros (USD250 million).

VENEZUELA’s

former oil czar resigned as ambassador to the United Nations on what he said were orders from President Nicolas Maduro, a sign of growing divisions in the ruling socialist party amid a deepening economic crisis.

ARGENTINA A human rights group says DNA tests have determined the identity of another person taken from parents by the country’s former dictatorship, bringing the number of such cases to 126. An estimated 30,000 people were jailed, tortured and killed or forcibly disappeared during the brutal 1976-1983 dictatorship.