World News at a Glance

Saudis Sent Team to Clean Up Khashoggi’s Killing

More than a month after Saudi agents assassinated journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, officials in Turkey continue to drip out sensational new details in a killing that has caused an international uproar. The latest twist: The kingdom sent an expert team to clean up evidence of the crime under the guise of helping with the investigation, a senior Turkish official said Monday. A pro-government newspaper, Sabah, published news of the Saudi cleanup team and photographs of two of its members, whom it identified as a chemist and a toxicologist, who visited the Saudi consulate where Khashoggi was killed.

As U.S. Sanctions on Iran Kick In, Europe Looks for a Workaround

As tough new U.S. sanctions against Iran took effect Monday, European officials remained determined to go their own way, but their progress on an issue that has sharply divided the United States and its closest allies has been halting, at best. The Europeans consider the 2015 Iran nuclear deal crucial to their national interests and say they intend to keep honoring it. But to date, they have not managed to put in place a mechanism for sidestepping the sanctions without antagonizing the Trump administration. Their stance has become only more complicated by Denmark’s recent accusation that the Iranian government tried to assassinate an Arab separatist living there.

Poland Elections Reveal a Deeply Divided Nation

Despite making major gains in provincial assemblies, Poland’s populist ruling party suffered a sweeping defeat in municipal voting in a set of elections that concluded Sunday, confirming that Poland is a nation ever more deeply divided between its liberal cities and its conservative countryside. In elections for local and regional offices, the governing Law and Justice won just four of 107 mayoral races, down from the 11 it won four years ago. Yet the party secured the most seats in nine out of 16 provincial assemblies and won outright majorities in six of them. The elections had the highest turnout in local contests since the fall of communism in 1989.

Ukrainian Activist Dies From Acid Attack

Three months ago, an attacker splashed a liter of sulfuric acid over Kateryna Handziuk’s head, burning 30 percent of her body. But Handziuk, an anti-corruption activist, continued to speak out from her hospital bed about unsolved attacks on dozens of civic activists in Ukraine this year. On Sunday, after 11 surgeries and numerous skin grafts, she died from complications from her wounds. Her scarred face had already become a rebuke of the foot-dragging of the government of President Petro Poroshenko on anti-corruption measures — a key demand of the protesters who ushered him to power in 2014.

Students Kidnapped From Cameroon School

Numerous students were kidnapped from a boarding school early Monday in a part of Cameroon where separatists are waging a violent battle to break away and form their own country. The students were kidnapped either late Sunday or early Monday from a Presbyterian boarding school in Nkwen, a small village not far from the northwestern city of Bamenda in one of Cameroon’s two English-speaking regions. The total number of hostages, and who was behind the kidnappings, was unclear Monday afternoon. A Cameroon military officer said the hostages numbered 20 students along with one teacher. No one was killed during the kidnapping, officials said.

Former Belgian King Ordered to Give DNA for Paternity Test

Delphine Boël, 50, a Belgian visual artist, claims that she was conceived during an extramarital affair between King Albert II of Belgium and Boël’s mother, Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps. A court ruling, published Monday, gave credence to her claim and ordered Albert to submit DNA evidence to determine whether he is Boël’s biological father. Like some countries in Europe, Belgium still has a king who is theoretically above the law, and cannot be arrested, prosecuted or convicted. But the court ruling shows that even a king can be held accountable once he relinquishes the throne — which Albert did in 2013.