World briefs

AUSTRALIA-N. KOREA A South Korean-born Sydney man was charged yesterday with acting as an economic agent for North Korea in Australia by allegedly attempting to broker sales for Pyongyang that included components used in ballistic missiles. 

US-MYANMAR Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the U.S. plans to impose sanctions on at least one person responsible for the crackdown on Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims.

INDONESIA Muslim clerics called for a boycott of American products yesterday in Indonesia’s largest protest against President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. 

AFGHANISTAN Taliban insurgents attacked checkpoints in the southern Helmand province yesterday, killing 11 police, an official said.

SYRIA Government forces have entered small parts of the northwestern rebel-held province of Idlib in one of their deepest incursions into the area where President Bashar Assad’s government has almost no presence.

PALESTINE Hamas marked the 30th anniversary of its founding with a mass rally of many thousands of supporters, staging a show of strength at a low point in the Islamic militant group’s history.

GABON A man stabbed two Danish journalists in Gabon’s capital, declaring it was in retaliation for U.S. attacks against Muslims, Gabon’s defense minister said.

SOUTH AFRICA The fight to replace South Africa’s scandal-prone President Jacob Zuma began Saturday as thousands of delegates of the ruling African National Congress gathered to elect a new leader.

AUSTRIA The new Austrian government led by a conservative and a nationalist party is pledging to tighten the country’s asylum and immigration regulations while maintaining a firm commitment to the European Union.

CHILE Voters are deciding whether to swing the world’s top copper-producing country to the right or maintain its center-left path in a fiercely contested presidential runoff election.

PERU Lawmakers in Peru have launched proceedings to oust President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who refuses to resign after being accused of failing to disclose decade-old payments from a Brazilian company embroiled in Latin America’s biggest corruption scandal.