World Briefs

TAIWAN At least 22 people were killed and 171 others injured yesterday when one of Taiwan’s newer, faster trains derailed on a curve along a popular weekend route, officials said. The train was carrying more than 366 passengers from a suburb of Taipei in the north to Taitung, a city on Taiwan’s southeast coast, when it went off the tracks.

CHINA Two people died and 18 were trapped in a coal mine in eastern China yesterday after a rock burst destroyed part of a mining tunnel, state broadcaster China Central Television reported.

PHILIPPINES Gunmen killed nine members of a farmers’ group who occupied part of a privately owned sugarcane plantation in a central Philippine province, police said yesterday.

INDIA-PAKISTAN Three local rebels were killed in a gunbattle with Indian government forces in disputed Kashmir yesterday, and six civilians were killed in an explosion at the site after the fighting was over, officials and residents said.

AFGHANISTAN Parliamentary elections in Afghanistan have entered a second day following violence and chaos that caused delays and interruptions on the first day of polling. 

SAUDIA ARABIA’s crown prince “crossed a line” in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and must pay a price, a leading U.S. Senate Republican said yesterday, in a sign of growing tensions between the United States and its Gulf ally.

ISRAEL Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday he has decided to postpone the planned demolition of a West Bank hamlet to allow time for a negotiated solution with its residents, in a move that appeared aimed at staving off the fierce international condemnation such a demolition would likely entail.

CONGO Rebels killed 15 civilians and abducted a dozen children in an attack at the center of the latest deadly Ebola outbreak, Congo’s military said yesterday, as the violence threatened to again force the suspension of crucial virus containment efforts.

NIGERIA’s government says 55 people have been killed in the latest eruption of communal violence in north-central Kaduna state.

RUSSIA-UKRAINE The imminent creation of the new Ukrainian church raises deep concerns about what will happen to the approximately 12,000 churches in Ukraine that are now under the Moscow Patriarchate.

BRAZIL Thousands of people took to the streets in Brazil Saturday to protest the candidacy of presidential front-runner Jair Bolsonaro, shouting “Not him!”