INDONESIA: Improved weather yesterday helped rescuers on Indonesia’s main island of Java recover more bodies as they dug through mud and debris in search of scores of people missing in a landslide that killed more than two dozen villagers.

The pre-dawn landslide on the slopes of Mount Burangrang in West Java province on Saturday buried some 34 houses in Pasir Langu village.

IRAQ: Baghdad will prosecute and try militants from the Islamic State group who are being transferred to the country from prisons and detention camps in neighbouring Syria under a United States-brokered deal, Iraq said yesterday.

The announcement came after a meeting of top security and political officials who discussed the ongoing transfer of some 9,000 IS detainees.

MYANMAR: Voting was held in Myanmar yesterday in the final round of a three-stage general election, capping a nearly month-long process that has already ensured the country’s military rulers will command a parliamentary majority.

Critics say the polls were neither free nor fair, and were designed to legitimise the power of the military.

FRANCE: French President Emmanuel Macron says he wants his government to fast-track the legal process to ensure that a ban on social media for children under the age of 15 can enter into force in September at the start of the next school year.

In a video released late on Saturday by French broadcaster BFM-TV, President Macron said he had asked his government to initiate an accelerated procedure so that the proposed legislation can move as quickly as possible and be passed by the Senate in time.