Malaysia
N. Korea to reject autopsy
North Korea said it will reject the results of an autopsy on its leader’s estranged half brother, the victim of an apparent assassination this week at an airport in Malaysia. Pyongyang’s ambassador said Malaysian officials may be “trying to conceal something” and “colluding with hostile forces.” Kim Jong Nam, who was 45 or 46 and had lived in exile for years, suddenly fell ill at the Kuala Lumpur airport on Monday as he waited for a flight home to Macau. Dizzy and in pain, he told medical workers at the airport he had been sprayed with a chemical.
Mexico
Protesters form ‘human wall’
Hundreds of people in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez gathered on the edge of the Rio Grande river on Friday to form a “human wall” to protest President Donald Trump’s plans for a wall between the countries. The demonstrators waved to the residents of the neighboring city of El Paso, Texas. Organizers said a friendly, human wall meant to join the two cities was better than a wall of steel or concrete to divide them.
Pakistan
Attack leads to crackdown
A brutal attack on a beloved Sufi shrine that killed 88 people and injured 343 raised fears that the Islamic State group has become emboldened in Pakistan, aided by an army of homegrown militants benefiting from hideouts in neighboring Afghanistan, analysts and officials said Friday. Pakistani security forces have carried out sweeping countrywide raids following Thursday’s bombing in southern Sindh province.
turkey
Car bomb kills child, hurts 15
A car bomb attack targeted government lodgings in Turkey on Friday, killing a child, 3, and wounding 15 other people, an official said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack in the mainly Kurdish town of Viransehir, in Sanliurfa province, which borders Syria.
Compiled from wire reports