World briefs

PHILIPPINES More than half of the Philippine Senate asked the Supreme Court yesterday to review its decision to oust its chief justice, calling the ruling a “dangerous precedent” that infringed on Congress’ constitutionally given power to impeach senior officials.

JAPAN Three Japanese who were forcibly sterilized under a government policy decades ago filed lawsuits yesterday demanding an apology and compensation, in a growing movement seeking official redress.

INDIA Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party ended Congress party rule in a key southern state yesterday, but its poll victory was marred by questions over who has the right to form the government.

ARAB LEAGUE Arab foreign ministers are holding an emergency meeting three days after the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem and violence along the Gaza border, where Israeli forces killed dozens of Palestinians.

CONGO’s latest Ebola outbreak has spread to a city of more than 1 million people, a worrying shift as the deadly virus risks traveling more easily in densely populated areas.

POLAND-RUSSIA Polish authorities plan to expel one Russian and banned four others from entering for five years on allegations they had engaged in “information warfare” seeking to fuel animosity between Poles and Ukrainians.

FRANCE President Emmanuel Macron says his country will not get into a trade war against the United States over Iran, despite France’s disapproval of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the nuclear deal.

EUROPEAN UNION EU leaders yesterday encouraged Balkan countries to continue on the path of reform but were cool on any of the six joining the bloc in the near future.

VENEZUELA’s presidential candidates are making their last-minute pitches before Sunday’s election, though many people are hardly noticing as they struggle to find their next meal and pay for it with money that is next to worthless under runaway inflation.

BRAZIL Law enforcement officials say gunmen murdered a police officer during an attempted robbery in Rio de Janeiro, bringing to 49 the number of police officers shot and killed so far this year in Brazil’s second biggest city.