World News at a Glance

Britain’s Web of Cameras Catches Clues in Poisoning

British authorities Wednesday charged two men — identified by Prime Minister Theresa May as officers of Russian military intelligence — with carrying out a nerve agent attack in March against a former Russian spy in Salisbury, England, the first charges brought in a case that has caused an international uproar. The counterterrorism police said they had tracked in detail the movement of the men, captured images of them from security cameras, identified a hotel in London where the men had stayed and had even found traces of the nerve agent in their room.

Bombings Target Afghan Wrestling Match and Those Who Rushed to the Scene

A suicide bomber detonated his explosives during a wrestling match in the Afghan capital Wednesday, and as emergency medical workers and journalists rushed to the scene, a second, much larger explosion went off, killing at least 20 people in total, officials said. Two journalists were among those killed and four others were among the scores wounded in the second blast, Afghan news organizations said. The two bombings injured at least 70, said Nasrat Rahimi, a spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry.

As a Major Storm Tapers in Japan, Fears Grow of Economic Losses

A typhoon that tore through Japan leaving 11 people dead and hundreds injured has damaged the country’s third-largest airport so badly that it may be closed for at least a week, officials said Wednesday. With the storm now heading offshore as a low-pressure system, a major concern is the longer-term effects on business and tourism. The storm, Typhoon Jebi, flooded the runways of Kansai International Airport in Osaka Bay as well as the basement floor of a terminal building. The airport said in a statement on its website Tuesday night that Terminal One had been “heavily damaged."

Japan Says Fukushima Radiation Caused Worker’s Cancer Death

More than seven years after a devastating earthquake and tsunami triggered meltdowns at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan acknowledged for the first time this week that a worker died from cancer after being exposed to radiation. Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said the man, who was not identified, had worked mostly at the Fukushima Daiichi plant over 28 years and had died of lung cancer, according to Japanese news media reports. The government has acknowledged that three other Fukushima workers developed leukemia and thyroid cancer after working on the plant cleanup.

Pompeo Offers Pakistan a Reset, but Skepticism Is Rife

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Pakistan on Wednesday for a meeting with the new prime minister, Imran Khan, saying he wanted to reset a badly strained relationship but repeating U.S. demands that the country do more to fight militants at home and in Afghanistan. Even before Pompeo’s plane landed, Pakistani officials were calling on Khan to cancel the meeting, enraged about the cancellation of $300 million in U.S. aid announced just days ago. The meeting will be Khan’s first with a high-level U.S. official since he was sworn in last month.

Rx for British Doctors: Use Plain English Instead of Latin

Doctors have long been chided for their seemingly unintelligible handwriting. Now, they are being urged to drop the Latin. In an effort to improve written communication with patients, an initiative unveiled this week by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges — which represents 250,000 doctors in Britain — is encouraging doctors to ditch confusing medical jargon and instead write to their patients directly in plain, simple English. The project says with more than 5 million outpatient visits a month in England, outpatient clinic letters are “the most written letters” in Britain’s National Health Service.