World briefs

PHILIPPINES Riot police used shields and a water hose to disperse more than 100 left-wing activists in front of the U.S. Embassy in Manila in a confrontation that injured more than a dozen protesters. 

INDONESIA A 15-year-old Indonesian girl who was raped by her brother has been sentenced to six months in prison for having an abortion, police said yesterday.

INDIA A Muslim man was beaten to death by a mob in western India over allegations of smuggling cows despite calls by the country’s highest court for immediate steps to stop deadly mob violence across the country.

PAKISTAN A suicide bombing yesterday in northwestern Pakistan killed a candidate running for a seat in the provincial assembly and his driver, and wounded three other people, police said.

IRAN was jolted by a series of moderate and light earthquakes yesterday and there were reports of 26 people sustaining slight injuries in one of the locations.

SOUTH AFRICA Police say gunmen have opened fire on a minibus carrying members of a taxi drivers’ association, killing 11 people and critically wounding four others.

SYRIA The Israeli military in coordination with its U.S. and European allies evacuated hundreds of Syrian rescue workers known as the White Helmets from near its volatile frontier with Syria, in a complex and first-of-a-kind operation.

SWITZERLAND Police say an Austrian family allegedly hijacked a taxi, crashed into a parked boat, drove through a hedge and then plunged off a 4-foot-high ledge before trying to escaping on foot.

FRENCH authorities opened a judicial investigation of the beating of a protester in May by one of President Emmanuel Macron’s top security aides, an incident that was caught on camera and has sparked the first major political crisis of Macron’s tenure.

SPAIN-LIBYA A Spanish rescue group says it has filed a lawsuit in Spanish courts against the captain of a cargo ship and the captain the Libyan coast guard for not rescuing three migrants from a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea.

PERU Hundreds of villagers in Peru’s remote Sihuas province broke into offices of the local prosecutor and court, destroying thousands of criminal case files to protest corruption in the judicial system, authorities said.

U.S. A woman was shot and killed when a gunman ran into a busy Los Angeles supermarket where he held dozens of people hostage for about three hours Saturday before handcuffing himself and surrendering to police. No hostages were seriously hurt.