World briefs

INDONESIA Dozens of Islamic militant prisoners who took over a police detention center near Indonesia’s capital and killed five officers surrendered to police yesterday, the country’s top security minister said.

TRUM-KIM President Donald Trump will meet with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in Singapore on June 12, Trump announced yesterday, hours after suggesting that the release of three Americans held in the North heralded a potential breakthrough toward denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.

PHILIPPINES  The navy will deploy its first-ever missile-firing assault vessels in about three months, likely for territorial defense, anti-insurgency strikes and deterrence, but it remains “centuries” behind the naval might of Asian countries such as China, the navy chief said yesterday.

AFGHANISTAN A United Nations report is criticizing the nearly two dozen recent attacks on voter registrations centers in Afghanistan, warning they are tantamount to an “assault on democracy.”

SYRIA The Israeli military yesterday said it attacked nearly all of Iran’s military installations in neighboring Syria in response to an Iranian rocket barrage on Israeli positions in the occupied Golan Heights.

PALESTINE The Hamas militant group’s leader in the Gaza Strip yesterday said tens of thousands of protesters in a mass demonstration along the Israeli border next week could burst through the fence and swarm into Israel.

ITALY The populist leaders of the 5-Star Movement and the League announced progress yesterday toward forming a new Italian government after two months of political stalemate.

PORTUGAL’s president has vetoed a bill that would have allowed citizens as young as 16 to change their gender identity without needing a medical report as long as they had parental consent.

NICARAGUA Tens of thousands of Nicaraguans have joined one of the largest marches to date in weeks of protests against a government crackdown on dissent.

BRAZIL Firefighters have found human remains that appear to belong to three different people as the search continues in the rubble of a building occupied by squatters that caught fire and collapsed in Sao Paulo last week.