News brief: Big stories of the day
Security tightened in Srinagar
Governor Satya Pal Malik, in a meeting held at Raj Bhavan on Monday evening, reviewed prevailing security and law and order in the state, in the aftermath of developments in the Parliament relating to Jammu and Kashmir.
The United States on Monday formally accused China of manipulating its currency, marking the second major escalation in the two countries' spiralling trade war in just 24 hours.
North Korea fired two unidentified projectiles into the sea off its east coast on Tuesday, the South Korean military said, as Pyongyang's foreign ministry protested that joint US-South Korea military drills violated diplomatic agreements.
US President Donald Trump has imposed sanctions on assets of the Venezuelan government, according to an executive order published on Monday.
The mayor of Hiroshima urged Japan to sign a landmark UN treaty banning nuclear weapons as the city Tuesday marked 74 years since being targeted in the world's first atomic attack.