GLOBAL SNAPSHOT

Tourists flee quake

DENPASAR: Tourists fled their hotels in panic on Bali yesterday after the popular Indonesian holiday island was rattled by an earthquake. The 5.5-magnitude quake struck inland about 10km northeast of Denpasar. There were no reports of casualties.

Sex assault filmed

CHICAGO: Authorities say a 15year-old Chicago girl was apparently sexually assaulted by five or six men or boys on Facebook Live and none of the roughly 40 people who watched the live video reported the attack. Police learned of the attack when the girl’s mother told them.

Jesus’ tomb opens

JERUSALEM: The tomb where Jesus is believed to have been buried is being unveiled again following nine months of restoration work. The shrine is a key part of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s Old City. However centuries of candle smoke and visiting pilgrims had left it discoloured and almost black.

Block bid on wall

LOS ANGELES: Three California lawmakers have introduced legislation that would penalise firms keen to take part in President Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall along the US-Mexico border. The legislation calls for California’s two public pension funds — the largest in the nation — to divest from companies involved in the construction. “Californians build bridges not walls,” Phil Ting, one of the three Democratic lawmakers, said in a statement.

Battle against graft

PORT-AU-PRINCE: Haitian President Jovenel Moise yesterday urged his newly installed government to fight corruption at a time of economic woes in the Caribbean country. “I ask you to hate corruption and admire the culture of results,” Mr Moise told ministers during their swearing-in ceremony.

Death ferry salvage

SEOUL: Salvage experts in South Korea could begin raising a ferry that sank nearly three years ago, killing more than 300 people, most of them children on a school trip. The ferry, the Sewol, was structurally unsound, overloaded and travelling too fast on a turn when it sank on April 16, 2014.

Going blond a ball

SAN JUAN: Pharmacies and beauty stores across Puerto Rico are running out of hair dye as a growing number of men go blond in support of the island’s baseball players, who bleached their hair as a bonding ritual ahead of the World Baseball Classic.