News of the Day From Around the World

Elian Gonzalez, the young Cuban boy at the center of a tense 2000 international custody battle that became a cause celebre and raised tensions on both sides of the Florida Straits, is a college graduate.

Widespread anti-India protests and clashes erupted in dozens of places in divided Kashmir, even as authorities prevented tens of thousands of people from offering Friday prayers in big mosques with a lockdown for a seventh straight day.

Government forces armed with automatic rifles ordered residents to stay indoors, but protests started after people prayed in smaller, neighborhood mosques.

Troops fired live ammunition, pellet guns and tear gas to disperse rock-throwing crowds who chanted anti-India slogans.

In an attempt to defuse continuing opposition to a planned U.S. missile defense system, South Korea’s prime minister Friday visited the rural town chosen to host it, but he was forced to retreat as angry residents pelted him with eggs and water bottles.

Facing the crowd, the prime minister, Hwang Kyo-ahn, said South Korea needed the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system to defend against North Korean missiles.

The State Council’s investigation report said the landslide in which a mountain of construction waste that had been piled up against a hill collapsed during heavy rains onto an industrial park was an “extraordinarily serious production safety accident.”