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VENEZUELA

Trump denies role in deadly sea invasion

The United States on Tuesday denied involvement in an alleged plot in Venezuela after two US citizens were said to have been arrested following a deadly sea invasion. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro appeared on state television on Monday with the US passports of a pair he said belonged to US security forces. While the imagery was straight from the CIA's Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961, US President Donald Trump scoffed at involvement in such an apparently clumsy operation."It has nothing to do with our government," Trump said.

THE PHILIPPINES

200,000 moved as typhoon sweeps in

Authorities started moving 200,000 people away from their homes in coastal and mountainous areas because of fears of flooding and landslides as a typhoon made landfall on Thursday, disaster officials said. Typhoon Vongfong, the first to hit the country this year, slammed into the east region packing winds of 155 kilometers per hour and gusts of up to 190 km/h, the government said.

SOUTH ASIA

Fatal shooting sparks clashes in Kashmir

Indian soldiers fatally shot a young man at a checkpoint in India-controlled Kashmir on Wednesday, triggering protests and clashes. Police said the man was driving a car and ignored signals to stop at two checkpoints. But a witness said the victim stopped his car when soldiers signaled him."A security official told him something to which he replied that he had some emergency. They let him go but as he was getting into his vehicle, they shot him in the back,"she said."He was killed deliberately. He did no wrong."

Agencies - Xinhua