WORLD HIGHLIGHTS

►Indonesia JAKARTA

Rescuers in Indonesia recovered four bodies including those of two children after a landslide and flooding hit a village on Java island, while six others remain missing, an official said yesterday.

►Australia SYDNEY

Climate change and efforts to keep up with advances in artificial intelligence top the agenda for a Commonwealth meeting set in Samoa in October, the grouping's secretary general said.

Australia and Tuvalu are pressing ahead with a landmark treaty offering the Pacific Island's citizens a climate refuge, quieting speculation about the fate of the pact.

►Russia MOSCOW

Most rescue efforts have been suspended at a gold mine in Russia's far east, where 13 miners were trapped by a rock fall on Monday, due to the risk of another collapse, state news agency TASS reported yesterday.

►Sri Lanka COLOMBO

Sri Lanka's prime minister said yesterday that China has pledged to develop the island nation's strategic deep sea port and the capital's airport after talks with his counterpart in Beijing.

►Tunisia TUNIS

Four people were sentenced to death and two given life imprisonment over the assassination of Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid in 2013, the deputy public prosecutor of the anti-terrorist judicial division said yesterday.

►Lebanon BEIRUT

A Lebanese militant organisation closely linked to Palestinian group Hamas said yesterday that seven people were killed in an overnight strike in south Lebanon.

►Panama PANAMA CITY

Panama on Tuesday inaugurated a new cruise ship terminal at the mouth of the drought-hit Panama Canal, hoping to attract more tourists to the Central American nation.

►Portugal LISBON

Portugal's fractured new parliament hit an impasse on its first sitting on Tuesday as it failed to elect a president.

►Pakistan KARACHI

Five Chinese nationals working on a major dam construction site were killed along with their driver on Tuesday when a suicide bomber targeted their vehicle in northwest Pakistan, officials said. AGENCIES