Myanmar chargeS Suu Kyi, giving legal baSiS to detain her Draghi gets nod to form new government and guide Italy out of crisis. Court faults France over “ecological damage” from its emissions levels. Suspect in killing of Florida FBI agents is identified.

YANGON, MYANMAR» Authorities charged the country’s deposed leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, with possessing illegally imported walkie-talkies, her allies said Wednesday, a move that gives the generals who overthrew her legal grounds to detain her for two weeks.

The charge came to light two days after Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest. It appeared to be an effort to lend a legal veneer to her detention, although the generals have previously kept her and others locked up for years.

The military announced Monday that it would take power for one year — accusing Suu Kyi’s government of not investigating allegations of voter fraud in recent elections. Suu Kyi’s party swept that vote, and the militarybacked party did poorly.

National League for Democracy spokesman Kyi Toe confirmed the charge against Suu Kyi that carries a maximum sentence of three years in prison.

ROME» Mario Draghi, the former chief of the European Central Bank who is credited with helping to save the euro, accepted a mandate from Italy’s president Wednesday to try to form a new unity government that would guide the country out of the pandemic and through economic recovery.

“To overcome the pandemic, to complete the vaccine campaign, to offer answers to the daily problems of the citizens, to relaunch the country are the challenges we face,” Draghi said after meeting with President Sergio Mattarella.

Italy, he said, faced a “difficult moment.” And he said he had accepted Mattarella’s appeal because the emergency “requires an answer equal to the seriousness of the situation.”

PARIS»A French court ruled Wednesday that France had caused “ecological damage” by insufficiently reducing its greenhouse gas emissions, a landmark decision that environmentalists said they hoped would be more than merely symbolic as such cases increasingly are brought to courts internationally.

The court said it would give the French government two months to take action before issuing any order to reduce emissions and repair the damage, a decision that the four groups that brought the case described as “a victory for the truth.”

For now, the ruling by a Paris administrative court was more modest, ordering the French state to pay $1.20 each to the environmental groups, in compensation for the “moral damage” resulting from its failure “to meet its commitments in the fight against climate change.”

FLA.» Still reeling from the fatal shooting of two FBI agents in South Florida, the nation’s tightknit law enforcement community was examining evidence at the scene Wednesday to understand how the execution of a search warrant in an online child exploitation case turned into a deadly gunfight.

Officials identified the suspect as David Lee Huber, 55, who was under investigation in a case involving violent crimes against children. He died, apparently by suicide, after barricading himself in the apartment.

The shooting broke out before dawn Tuesday when a group of FBI agents was serving a search warrant at Huber’s apartment in Sunrise, northwest of Fort Lauderdale. The shooting killed agents Daniel Alfin and Laura Schwartzenberger and wounded three other agents, one of whom was still in a hospital Wednesday.

Huber had worked as recently as April 2020 as a temporary technology contractor for Florida Blue, an affiliate insurance company of Blue Cross and Blue Shield.