International

LONDON — Scientists may have the first evidence that Zika can cause temporary paralysis, according to a new study of patients who developed the rare condition during an outbreak of the virus in Tahiti two years ago.

PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea presented a detained American student before the media on Monday in Pyongyang, where he acknowledged and apologized for attempting to steal a political banner — at the behest, he said, of a member of a church who wanted it as a "trophy" — from a staff-only section of the hotel where he had been staying.

TOKYO — Three former utility executives have been formally charged over their alleged negligence in the Fukushima nuclear disaster, becoming the first ones from the company to go to criminal court.

LOS ANGELES — Dozens of protesters who heard about a planned Ku Klux Klan rally were waiting by a Southern California park when six people pulled up in a black SUV. They were dressed in black shirts decorated with the Klan cross and Confederate flag patches and took out signs that read "White Lives Matter."

MANILA — Japan will sign an accord with the Philippines to allow Tokyo to supply military equipment to Manila, the first such Japanese defense pact in a region where both have expressed alarm over China's island-building and other aggressive acts in disputed waters.

TUAL, Indonesia — Indonesian prosecutors are seeking prison sentences of up to 4 1/2 years for five Thais and three Indonesians accused of human trafficking in connection with slavery in the seafood industry.

ZURICH — Gianni Infantino is the new president of soccer's corruption-scarred world governing body, winning election after promising national leaders of the sport that he would share the wealth from FIFA's USD$5 billion World Cup revenues.

TOKYO — Japan's latest census confirmed the hard reality long ago signaled by shuttered shops and abandoned villages across the country: the population is shrinking.

LUNG ZA, Myanmar — Opium is a scourge to many of Myanmar's poor communities ravaged by drug addiction, but to the farmers who grow it, it is a living.

HESSTON, Kansas — A county sheriff said Thursday that four to seven people, including a gunman, are dead and 20 to 30 people are injured after a series of shootings in south-central Kansas.