World briefs

CAMBODIA An Australian filmmaker on trial in Cambodia on charges of endangering national security defended himself yesterday under cross-examination, declaring the evidence shows he is a journalist, not a spy or political operative.

JAPAN-KOREA An approaching typhoon has whipped up strong winds, waves and heavy rain in southern South Korea, leaving one person missing and one injured, while another typhoon headed for western Japan yesterday.

US-IRAN Republican lawmakers are calling for Iran to be expelled from the main financial system that oversees international bank transfers, as the Trump administration steadily re-imposes sanctions on the country.

UGANDA A pop star-turned-lawmaker who opposes the longtime president was charged with treason in a civilian court yesterday, minutes after a military court dropped weapons charges.

SOUTH AFRICA’s government lashed out at President Donald Trump yesterday after he tweeted that his administration would be looking into farm seizures and the “large scale killing of farmers” in the country.

TURKEY Tourists have returned in droves to Turkey, helped this summer by the sharp fall in the value of the Turkish lira following economic uncertainty and a rift with the United States.

SPAIN Police have shut down what they believe to be Europe’s biggest illegal turtle farm, selling endangered species worth 10,000 euros each.

BRITAIN will unilaterally accept some European Union rules and give EU financial services firms continued access to the U.K. market in order to maintain stability if the country crashes out of the bloc without a deal, the government said yesterday.

BRAZIL New aerial images give a rare glimpse of an isolated tribe in Brazil’s Amazon, showing 16 people walking through jungle as well as a deforested area with a crop.

VENEZUELA In a city once called the Saudi Arabia of Venezuela for its vast oil wealth, residents of Maracaibo now line up to buy spoiled meat as refrigerators fail amid nine months of rolling power outages that recently got worse.