World News at a Glance

Philippines Bars Citizens From Working in Kuwait After Body Is Found

The Philippines on Monday barred its citizens from traveling to Kuwait for employment, accusing the oil-rich Gulf state of turning a blind eye to the abuse and even killing of domestic workers and other Filipinos. The announcement came days after the Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte, responded angrily to reports that the body of a Filipino domestic worker had been found in a freezer in an apartment in Kuwait. About half a million Filipinos live in Kuwait, most of them employed as domestic workers, according to the Philippine government. The Philippine economy is heavily dependent on remittances, with 10 percent of the country’s population working overseas and sending money home.

Negotiations Continue Over Zuma

A South African weekly over the weekend summarized the uncertainty surrounding President Jacob Zuma’s fate as the nation’s leader: Yes, he’ll almost certainly step down, but not right now. Negotiations between Zuma and his deputy and probable successor as president, Cyril Ramaphosa, over South Africa’s presidency entered their second week Monday after days of premature reports that Zuma’s exit was imminent. Around midnight Monday, the state broadcaster said that party leaders had directed Ramaphosa to personally deliver to Zuma a demand that he resign within 48 hours. But that report could not be independently confirmed.

Family of Fatally Shot Cree Man to Meet With Trudeau Cabinet Members

After widespread protests over the acquittal on murder charges of Gerald Stanley, a Saskatchewan farmer who shot and killed a 22-year-old Cree man, members of the victim’s family were scheduled to began a series of meetings Monday with senior members of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Cabinet. Indigenous leaders and supporters across the country had expressed anger and disbelief Friday night over the verdict in the case involving the death of Colten Boushie, who was killed in 2016. Many of them, including Boushie’s family, said the case revealed significant flaws in how Canada’s legal system deals with cases involving indigenous people.

A Nearly Invisible Oil Spill Threatens Some of Asia’s Richest Fisheries

A fiery collision that sank an Iranian tanker in the East China Sea a month ago has resulted in an environmental threat that experts say is unlike any before: an almost invisible type of petroleum has begun to contaminate some of the most important fishing grounds in Asia, from China to Japan and beyond. It is the largest oil spill in decades, but the disaster has unfolded outside the glare of international attention that big spills have previously attracted. That is because of its remote location on the high seas and also the type of petroleum involved: condensate, a toxic, liquid byproduct of natural gas production.

British Charity’s Executive Quits as Furor Grows Over Aid Workers’ Misconduct

Claims that aid workers with the British charity Oxfam hired prostitutes in Chad were raised more than a decade ago, but the official in charge there was allowed to remain with the charity and moved on to Haiti, where the pattern continued, the group acknowledged Monday, as one of its top executives stepped down. The resignation of the charity’s deputy chief executive, Penny Lawrence, was unlikely to quell growing outrage over revelations about the conduct of aid workers in desperately poor countries. Oxfam’s leaders met Monday with the British Cabinet minister for international development, who has raised the prospect of cutting off its government funding.

Visiting Egypt, Tillerson Is Silent on Its Wave of Repression

America’s top diplomat, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, has kept a cool relationship with Egypt. He did not visit Egypt during his first year in office, and in August decided to cut or freeze $291 million in aid, to protest President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s harsh policies and ties with North Korea. So when Tillerson finally made it to Cairo on Monday, at the start of a five-country tour of the Middle East, he appeared keen to make amends. He expressed staunch support for el-Sissi’s latest counterterrorism drive in Sinai, and avoided even mild criticism of next month’s presidential election.

Trump Taps Harry Harris as Australia Envoy

President Donald Trump has said he plans to nominate Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., commander of the U.S. Pacific Command and a vocal critic of China’s military expansion in the region, as ambassador to Australia. Harris, 61, who has spent 39 years in the Navy, is expected to easily win confirmation in the Senate. The United States has been without an ambassador to Australia, a major ally, since 2016. The alliance between the countries was strained in the early days of the Trump administration by an argument between Trump and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull over the resettlement of refugees.

Relic of World War II Shuts Down a London Airport

An airport in London was shut down Sunday night and Monday by a relic of World War II: a 1,100-pound unexploded German bomb discovered during construction work. The airport, London City, is in the Docklands, an industrial area considered crucial to Britain’s war effort. All flights in and out of the airport were canceled Monday, and the Royal Navy said it had put in place an exclusion zone of 214 meters, or 702 feet, to “ensure that the ordnance is safely dealt with.” Navy bomb-disposal experts were expected to detonate the device on Tuesday in a controlled explosion at the bottom of the River Thames.