SOUTH CHINA SEA China’s first entirely home-built aircraft carrier has begun sea trials, underscoring how the country is building naval assets to assert its maritime claims in the South China Sea.
INDONESIA An Indonesian family brought its 8-year-old daughter to a suicide bomb attack it launched yesterday on the police headquarters in the country’s second-largest city, authorities said.
JAPAN A volcano in southern Japan seen in a James Bond film erupted yesterday, shooting grey smoke and ash thousands of meters into the sky.
INDIA Powerful winds and rainstorms swept across a crowded swath of northern India, demolishing houses, uprooting trees and killing at least 43 people as the winds turned the skies brown with dust and sand.
PAKISTAN Rescuers have recovered two more bodies of students who fell into a river when an old wooden bridge collapsed in Kashmir, bringing the death toll to seven.
RUSSIA Germany has appealed to the Russian government to let in a journalist who exposed systematic doping in Russian athletics and was denied entry to Russia to report on the upcoming World Cup.
ROMANIA Thousands of people gathered in Romania’s capital and other cities to protest a contentious judicial overhaul they say will make it harder to prosecute senior officials for graft.
ITALY’s president has summoned rival populist leaders to see if they’ve nailed down a coalition deal, more than 10 weeks after elections yielded a political impasse.
SPAIN Catalan lawmakers yesterday elected a fervent separatist as the new chief of the restive region — ending more than six months of a leadership vacuum and setting the scene for a new confrontation with Spain.
NETHERLANDS-VENEZUELA A court on the Dutch island of Curacao has authorized the local subsidiary of U.S. oil giant ConocoPhillips to seize USD636 million worth of assets held on the island by Venezuela’s state oil company, PDVSA.
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