World briefs

PHILIPPINE police said yesterday they killed 13 drug suspects and arrested more than 100 suspected dealers and criminals in one day of raids in a province with a record of bloody crackdowns. More on p12

CHINA Li Yunfeng, former executive vice governor of Jiangsu Province, was sentenced to 12 years in prison yesterday for taking bribes of over 14 million yuan, Chinese state media reported.

THAILAND A chartered tour bus lost control on a downhill curve in Thailand’s northeast and slid off the side of the road, killing at least 18 people and injuring dozens more, reports said. More on p12

INDONESIA Thirty people were treated for sulfur gas poisoning after Mount Ijen in eastern Java belched toxic fumes from its crater, Indonesia’s disaster agency said.

CAMBODIA’s ambassador to the United Nations office in Geneva yesterday rejected a statement to the U.N. Human Rights Council endorsed by 45 nations that urges improvements in the Southeast Asia nation’s rights situation ahead of a general election this July. 

US-RUSSIA Two American astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut are on their way to the International Space Station. A Soyuz rocket carrying the three men blasted from the Russia-leased Baikonur launch pad in Kazakhstan.

AUSTRIA-ISRAEL Austria’s foreign minister has ordered an attache at the country’s embassy in Israel to return home after a newspaper reported that he posted a picture of himself in a T-shirt sold by a far-right group.

FRANCE Trains, planes, schools and other public services across France were seriously disrupted yesterday as unions set up dozens of street protests across the country.

MEXICO Police in Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Veracruz say a journalist who ran a local news website has been shot to death.

PERU With his offer of resignation, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski joins a long list of recent Peruvian presidents undone by scandals that have destroyed voters’ trust in their elected officials.