World Briefs

AUSTRALIA Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited a shrine in Darwin commemorating the deaths of 80 Japanese submariners in waters near the city in World War II.

NORTH KOREA deported an American citizen it says it detained for illegal entry,  an apparent concession that came even as the reclusive nation announced the test of a newly developed but unspecified “ultramodern” weapon that will be seen as a pressuring tactic by Washington.

INDIA Three people were killed and over a dozen injured yesterday when two men on a motorbike targeted a prayer hall with a grenade in northern India, police said.

TURKEY’s official news agency says one person has been kept in custody in an investigation over allegations of supporting mass anti-government protests in 2013 with links to a prominent philanthropist.

UKRAINE Former President Viktor Yanukovych won’t be able to appear before a Kiev court today because of injuries sustained on a Moscow tennis court, his lawyer said.

CZECH REPUBLIC Thousands of Czechs have used the anniversary of their country’s 1989 anti-communist Velvet Revolution to rally against Prime Minister Andrej Babis, who has been charged with misusing European Union subsidies for a farm he transferred to family members.

FRANCE One protester was killed and 227 other people were injured — eight seriously — at roadblocks set up around villages, towns and cities across France on Saturday as citizens angry with rising fuel taxes rose up in a grassroots movement, posing a new challenge to beleaguered President Emmanuel Macron.

SPAIN Greenpeace says six of its activists boarded a tanker transporting Indonesian palm oil in the Gulf of Cadiz and were detained by its captain after unfurling “Save our Rainforest” and “Drop Dirty Palm Oil” banners.

US Northern California crews battling the country’s deadliest wildfire in a century were bracing for strong winds yesterday that could erode gains they have made in containing the fearsome blaze, which has killed at least 76 and leveled a town.

ARGENTINA Hours after announcing the discovery of an Argentine submarine lost deep in the Atlantic a year ago with 44 crew members aboard, the government said Saturday that it is unable to recover the vessel, drawing anger from missing sailors’ relatives who demanded that it be raised.