nation and world briefs

A 61-year-old woman was struck by a sheriff's vehicle as it peeled away from protesters demonstrating in Sacramento against the police killing of Stephon Clark. Activist Wanda Cleveland was hit in her right leg and was treated for injuries and released. On Saturday, marchers took to the streets again to protest the killing of Clark, 22, an unarmed black man shot to death by police on March 18. An independent autopsy concluded Clark was struck eight times, mostly in the back.

A rebel faction trapped by Syrian forces outside Damascus agreed to evacuate to northern Syria as reports swirled of a larger agreement that would have the government retake full control of eastern Ghouta after seven years of revolt. Fighters from the Faylaq al-Rahman group left Douma on buses sent by the Syrian government to rebel-held Idlib Province, SANA state news agency reported. Some 1,300 fighters, activists and civilians signed up to leave. It was the first organized evacuation of fighters from Douma, one of the earliest centers of the anti-government demonstrations that swept the country in 2011.

A 5.3-magnitude earthquake jolted the country's western Kermanshah Province. The quake rocked the Kurdish town of Sarpol-e-Zahab, which was one of the areas that suffered extensive damage from a 7.2-magnitude earthquake in November that killed 600 people. Semiofficial ISNA news agency said at least 37 people suffered minor injuries.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un clapped his hands as he, along with his wife and hundreds of other citizens, watched a rare performance by South Korean pop stars visiting Pyongyang, highlighting the thawing ties between the rival nations. A South Korean artistic group, including some of the South's pop legends and popular girl band Red Velvet, flew to Pyongyang over the weekend for two performances in the North Korean capital, one on Sunday and the other on Tuesday.

An Indian army operation against militants fighting Indian rule in the Muslim-majority Kashmir Valley killed at least 12 militants on Sunday, the largest one-day death toll of insurgents in recent years, officials in Kashmir said. At least three soldiers and four civilians also died, and about 70 other people were wounded in the army crackdown in the district of Shopian, according to Kashmir authorities. Kashmir is caught in a decadeslong territorial dispute between Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.

Islamist militants in Somalia carried out multiple coordinated attacks against African Union peacekeeping forces, claiming to have killed at least 59 Ugandan soldiers. A spokesman for the Ugandan peacekeepers said four soldiers were killed and six wounded. Al-Shabab attacked three military bases and two Somali government outposts in the Lower Shabelle region, a Shabab stronghold near Mogadishu, the country's capital.