World briefs

KOREA South Korea halted anti-North Korea propaganda broadcasts across their tense border yesterday as officials from the two Koreas met again to work out details of their leaders’ upcoming talks, expected to focus on the North’s nuclear program. More on p12

MALAYSIA Police yesterday released images of two suspects in the killing of a Palestinian engineer and said they appeared to be European or Middle Eastern, fueling suspicion that the slaying was an Israeli assassination. More on p12

PAKISTAN Police in Pakistan have arrested a Muslim man accused of burning a Christian woman to death for refusing his marriage offer, an official said yesterday.

SYRIA Government forces used warplanes, helicopters and artillery to pound districts of the capital held by the Islamic State group, in a bid to enforce an evacuation deal reached with the militants earlier in the week.

EGYPT-ETHIOPIA Egypt’s parliament has passed a law banning the cultivation of crops that require a large amount of water, amid fears that a massive Ethiopian dam being built upstream could cut into the country’s share of the Nile.

NIGER On the scorching edge of the Sahara Desert, the U.S. Air Force is building a base for armed drones, the newest front in America’s battle against the growing extremist threat in Africa’s vast Sahel region.

ARMENIA Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan resigned unexpectedly yesterday to quell massive anti-government protests over what critics feared was his effort to seize power for life.

FRANCE Striking French train workers have occupied a building in a surprise protest against President Emmanuel Macron’s changes to the state-run rail company.

PARAGUAY The son of a former dictator’s top aide has won the presidential election in Paraguay, helped by a booming economy under his party.

PERU A 41-year-old Canadian who traveled to Peru to study hallucinogenic medicine was killed by a mob in a remote corner of the Amazon rain forest after people blamed him for the slaying of an elderly shaman.