World Briefs

CAMBODIA The U.N.-backed tribunal judging the criminal responsibility of former Khmer Rouge leaders for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians will issue verdicts today in the latest — and perhaps last — of such trials.

JAPAN-RUSSIA Russian President Vladimir Putin says Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has signaled readiness to discuss a Soviet-era proposal on settling a decades-old territorial dispute over several Pacific islands.

FIJI The man who first seized power in a military coup then refashioned himself as a legitimate leader appears set to rule Fiji for another four years.

BANGLADESH The head of Bangladesh’s refugee commission said plans to start the repatriation of 700,000 Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar yesterday were scrapped after officials were unable to find anyone who wanted to return.

SRI LANKA Rival lawmakers exchanged blows in Sri Lanka’s Parliament yesterday as disputed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa claimed the speaker had no authority to remove him from office by voice vote.

IRAN‘s semi-official Fars news agency says five of 12 border guards abducted in October by militants near the Pakistani border, have been released.

SAUDI ARABIA‘s top prosecutor said yesterday he’s seeking the death penalty for five suspects charged with ordering and carrying out the killing of dissident Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul.

ISRAEL-PALESTINE A knife-wielding Palestinian attacker sneaked into a Jerusalem police station and lightly wounded four police officers before he was shot and captured, Israeli police said yesterday.

MOROCCO French President Emmanuel Macron and Morocco’s King Mohammed VI are inaugurating Morocco’s first high-speed rail line, the first ever such line in Africa.

US As the scope of a deadly Northern California wildfire set in, the sheriff said more than 450 people had now been assigned to comb through the charred remains in search for more bodies. The blaze has killed at least 56 people and authorities say 130 are unaccounted for.

CUBA-BRAZIL Cuba said that it is ending a program that sent thousands of government doctors to underserved regions of Brazil in exchange for hundreds of millions in badly needed hard currency. The end of the program signals a sharp deterioration in relations with Brazil, which just elected far-right presidential candidate.