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  SRINAGAR / AP Four suspected rebels, two Indian army soldiers and a civilian have been killed in a fierce gunbattle in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said on Sunday. The fighting began after police and soldiers cordoned off the southern village of Frisal overnight following a tip that militants were hiding in a house, said police Inspector-General Syed Javaid Mujtaba Gillani. ...

  PANGLONG / AP Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi called on all armed ethnic groups to sign a cease-fire agreement during a speech on Sunday in the same place where her father, an independence hero, signed a peace deal 70 years ago. Speaking during annual Union Day celebrations, Suu Kyi said ethnic groups can still join the movement for ...

  ISLAMABAD / AP The chairman of Pakistan’s senate says the body will not welcome any US delegation, member of Congress or dignitary in Islamabad. The move comes after the US failed to issue a visa to the senate’s deputy chairman, a member of the right-wing Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam political party. Chairman Raza Rabbani says in a statement that no Pakistani ...

  Bloomberg House of Commons Speaker John Bercow faced increased pressure to quit from pro-Brexit members of Prime Minister’s Theresa May’s Conservative Party after disclosing that he voted last year for the UK to remain in the European Union. Bercow, whose position as the independent chairman of Parliament’s lower chamber means he is supposed to remain impartial, was already sharply ...

  THE HAGUE / AP Dutch populist Geert Wilders says mainstream politicians in the Netherlands will have to work with his Party for Freedom if voters strongly back his anti-immigration, anti-European Union platform in the country’s upcoming election, or face a peaceful backlash. Wilders’ Party for Freedom is polling strongly ahead of the March 15 election for the lower house ...

  THESSALONIKI / AP Authorities in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki evacuated an estimated 75,000 people on Sunday so army experts could defuse a 500-pound (227-kilogram) unexploded World War II bomb found under a gas station. The evacuation started at 7 a.m. Police went house-to-house ringing bells and knocking on doors to remind people living within a 1.9-kilometer (1.2-mile) ...

  PHNOM PENH / AP Executive members of Cambodia’s beleaguered opposition party on Sunday accepted the resignation of Sam Rainsy, its charismatic leader, and named his deputy, Kem Sokha, acting chief until a party congress can be held. The action came a day after Sam Rainsy, who has been in self-imposed exile since late 2015, resigned his membership in the ...

  Bloomberg The chief executives of 18 automakers asked President Donald Trump to reinstate a US Environmental Protection Agency review of fuel efficiency regulations through 2025 that they say was unfairly cut short during the final days of the Obama administration. In a February 10 letter, executives including Mary Barra of General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co.’s Mark Fields and ...

  Bloomberg Switzerland shot down the government’s plan to reform corporate taxation, a decision that risks hurting its appeal as a place for multinational companies. After opponents said the reform was a series of “complicated tax tricks,” voters opposed it by 60 percent to 40 percent, according to projections on broadcaster SRF. Polls had suggested the electorate was evenly split ...

  Bloomberg Coke is trying to slim down its business, not just its sodas. The Atlanta-based company said its profit fell 55 percent as global sales volume dipped and it booked charges related to getting out of the manufacturing and distribution of its drinks. Coca-Cola Co. has been selling those operations back to independent bottlers around the country and plans ...