World briefs

KOREA The rival Koreas announced yesterday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in will meet in Pyongyang sometime in September, while their envoys also discussed Pyongyang’s nuclear disarmament efforts and international sanctions. More on p13

PHILIPPINES-ISRAEL Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has accepted an invitation to visit Israel next month in a sign of improving ties between the two countries.

AFGHANISTAN Four days of ferocious fighting between Afghan forces and the Taliban over a key provincial capital has claimed the lives of about 100 Afghan policemen and soldiers and at least 20 civilians, the defense minister said yesterday.

SYRIA An explosion in northern Syria killed at least 36 people and wounded many others, but the cause of the blast wasn’t immediately known, opposition activists said.

TUNISIA’s president promised yesterday to submit a bill to parliament soon that aims to give women equal inheritance rights with men, as debate over the topic of inheritance reverberated around the Muslim world.

MALI Citizens are voting in a runoff presidential election to determine if incumbent Ibrahim Boubacar Keita will remain in office in this sprawling West African nation threatened by rising extremist violence.

SPAIN An oceanside boardwalk collapsed during a nighttime concert in the Spanish city of Vigo, injuring 313 people, five of them seriously, authorities said.

BRITAIN Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, facing allegations of enabling anti-Semitism, has acknowledged that he was present at a wreath-laying to Palestinians allegedly linked to the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

MEXICO’s president-elect wants to bring tourism revenues to remote and forgotten stretches of Mexico, but some are scratching their heads at his main proposal: to build a USD3.2 billion train that would run from the resort of Cancun to the Mayan ruins of Palenque

ECUADOR Police say at least 12 people were killed and another 30 injured when a bus carrying fans of the Ecuadorean soccer team Barcelona SC overturned on a highway after a game.