World briefs

MALAYSIA The wife of former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak (pictured) has slammed police raids on their properties, saying Saturday they appeared targeted at vilifying the family to provoke public anger.

INDONESIA Prosecutors are demanding death for a radical Islamic cleric accused of ordering attacks including a January 2016 suicide bombing.

KOREA North Korea on Saturday reiterated its demands for South Korea to send back 12 restaurant workers who came to the South in 2016, saying such a move would demonstrate Seoul’s willingness to improve relations. 

INDIA At least six police officials were killed and another was critically injured yesterday when Maoist rebels targeted their vehicle with a bomb in eastern India, police said.

SAUDI ARABIA Just weeks before Saudi Arabia is set to lift its ban on women driving, the kingdom’s state security said Saturday it had detained seven people who are being accused of working with “foreign entities.”

IRAQ’s Muqtada al-Sadr, the maverick Shiite cleric whose political coalition beat out Iran’s favored candidates to come in first in national elections, says he wants to form a government that puts Iraqis first.

EU The European Commission has referred Britain, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, and Romania to the EU’s highest Court of Justice for exposing their citizens to too much air pollution.

GREECE A city official says the mayor of Greece’s second-largest city has been hospitalized with head, back and leg injuries after being set upon by nationalist extremists.

SPAIN’s maritime rescue service says it picked up 162 migrants who were attempting to make the perilous trip across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe on the weekend.

CUBA The Mexican charter company whose 39-year-old plane crashed in Havana had been the subject of two serious complaints about its crews’ performance over the last decade, according to authorities in Guyana and a retired pilot for Cuba’s national airline. 

CHILE A bishop apologized Saturday for not promptly investigating a reported case of sexual abuse in his diocese, a day after every bishop in the South American country offered to resign over what Pope Francis said was their negligence in protecting children.