World briefs

CHINA The wife of the former Interpol president who disappeared in China has revealed that she had received a threatening phone call warning of agents coming for her while she fights a so-far fruitless battle for information about her husband’s fate.

INDONESIA The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami on Sulawesi island has climbed past 2,000, the disaster agency announced, as authorities prepared to end the search for thousands of victims feared buried in mud and rubble in the hardest-hit neighborhoods.

JAPAN Police is investigating the death of a zookeeper in an apparent attack by a white tiger. Police said Akira Furusho was found bleeding from his neck and lying on the floor Monday evening inside a tiger cage at Hirakawa Zoological Park in Kagoshima.

AUSTRALIA Starting a new life in the country might not come with views of the Sydney Opera House or surfing at the city’s Bondi Beach with the government considering a ban on some immigrants from settling in big cities.

PAKISTAN’s currency plunged by about 7 percent yesterday after the government said it would seek emergency bailout loans from the International Monetary Fund. 

MALAYSIA The government plans to introduce new tax measures to help raise funds to pay off national debt that has snowballed due to corruption under the previous government. 

PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo Duterte said yesterday that medical tests show he doesn’t have cancer, but added that he won’t release a detailed report on his health.

USA U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is leaving the administration at the end of the year, she and President Donald Trump announced. She gave no reason for her departure after two years, though there has been speculation she will return to government or politics at some point.

BULGARIA A man was taken into custody in connection with the slaying of Bulgarian television reporter Viktoria Marinova, whose body was found dumped after she highlighted possible government corruption, the Bulgarian interior ministry said.