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Indonesia

Stampede kills 17, injures 39

At least 17 people were killed and 39 injured in a stampede triggered by fighting among fans after a boxing match on Sunday in the remote Indonesian province of Papua. The fighting was sparked by a dispute over scoring for the match, prompting some 1,500 spectators to try to flee the stadium in Nabire city in the country's resource-rich, eastern-most province.

India

6,000 missing after floods

India officially declared on Monday that nearly 6,000 people were missing a month after flash floods ravaged large parts of its northern state of Uttarakhand, but stopped short of saying they were presumed dead. The figure of 5,748 was the first official estimate for weeks.

Spain

PM refuses to resign in scandal

Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy refused on Monday to resign over a corruption scandal rocking his government as it fights to rescue the eurozone's fourth-biggest economy from an economic crisis. He batted off calls from his political opponents to step down over allegations that he received secret payments through his Popular Party when he was a government minister in the late 1990s.

Northern Ireland

Protesters hurl petrol bombs

Rioters threw petrol bombs, bricks, bottles and fireworks at police in a third night of violence in Northern Ireland around traditional Protestant marches, wounding one officer early on Monday. Protesters built a burning barricade across one road and burned out one car during the clashes that first flared on Friday.

France

Activists break into nuclear plant

More than 20 Greenpeace activists climbed fences to break into an EDF nuclear power plant in southern France on Monday and demanded its closure, the environmental campaign group said. The activists, dressed in red, broke into the Tricastin plant at dusk and unfurled a yellow and black banner on the wall saying above a picture of President Francois Hollande: "Tricastin, nuclear accident - President of the catastrophe?"

United Kingdom

Woman dies in Channel swim

A British woman died trying to swim across the Channel between Britain and France over the weekend, police and the Foreign Office said on Monday. Susan Taylor, who was reportedly in her 30s, died in a hospital in Boulogne-sur-Mer on the northern French coast on Sunday night after trying to complete a charity challenge.

Reuters-AFP

(China Daily 07/16/2013 page12)