World briefs

VIETNAM A court in southern Vietnam is scheduled to put on trial an American citizen of Vietnamese descent accused of disturbing public order after he took part in rare protests.

INDONESIA’s deeply conservative Muslim province of Aceh publicly caned 15 people found guilty of violating Shariah law, despite pledging not to carry out the punishment in public.

MYANMAR At least 15 people were killed and dozens injured in a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar’s jade mining region, state media and officials said yesterday.

INDIA At least seven people were killed and 22 others injured in Indian-controlled Kashmir yesterday when a boulder rolled down from a mountain and fell on local tourists bathing at a waterfall.

SYRIA Government forces unleashed hundreds of missiles on a rebel-held area near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights yesterday, activists said, the latest phase in an offensive to clear southern Syria of insurgents.

SAUDI ARABIA The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an attack on Saudi prison security guards in al-Qassim last week.

FINLAND Some 1,500 people are protesting in Helsinki to promote human and sexual rights, democracy and environmental issues ahead of today’s summit in the Finnish capital between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

GERMANY says it will take 50 of the 450 migrants rescued from a fishing boat in the Mediterranean Sea that’s been at the center of a squabble between Italy and Malta.

BRITAIN U.S. President Donald Trump has advised British Prime Minister Theresa May to “sue” the European Union to resolve the tense negotiations over Britain’s impending exit from the bloc.

SPAIN Health officials say the final bull run of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona has left six people injured in the fastest dash this year in the northern Spanish city.

NICARAGUA More than 200 university students were reunited with their parents after a tense night of armed attacks that left two dead and dozens wounded.

HAITI Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant resigned Saturday amid calls for him to step down over his handling of a failed plan to raise fuel prices that set off a wave of deadly protests.