Nation and world briefs

A Liberian man who was accused of lying on his U.S. immigration forms about his ties to his country's war criminals was convicted on Tuesday, a few months after another man was found guilty of similar offenses. Jucontee Thomas Woewiyu was found guilty after a three-week trial that included testimony from foreign reporters, intelligence officials and a former child soldier. He was convicted on perjury, immigration fraud and other charges stemming from answers he gave on a 2006 application for citizenship, saying he never took part in the overthrow of a government.

Gov. David Ige signed legislation to ban the sale of sunscreens containing two chemicals believed to harm coral reefs. The move makes Hawaii the first U.S. state to enact a ban on oxybenzone and octinoxate. The law takes effect in 2021. Ige said the state would also need to continue other efforts to protect coral, including fighting invasive species, pollution from land runoff and climate change.

One man was killed and another critically wounded after a co-worker opened fire on two contract workers outside a suburban Kansas City elementary school. No children were at Sunrise Point Elementary School in Overland Park when the shooting happened. The suspect was tracked to a home near the shooting scene and was arrested and jailed. One of the men underwent surgery but died a few hours after the shooting, police said.

A Philippine mayor was shot and killed by an unidentified man in a road attack a day after another mayor was gunned down in brazen back-to-back killings that prompted an opposition senator to call the country the "murder capital of Asia." Mayor Ferdinand Bote of northern General Tinio town was leaving a government compound in an SUV in northern Nueva Ecija Province when a motorcycle-riding man shot him repeatedly with a pistol. The gunman escaped, police said. Sen. Antonio Trillanes blamed the killings on a "culture of violence" under President Rodrigo Duterte.

The Israeli army says that Hamas, the militant Palestinian Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip, has been attempting to infiltrate the military using dating and sports apps on smartphones. A senior Israeli army intelligence official told journalists that the army had detected at least three malicious phone applications — including dating apps named Wink Chat and Glance Love — that contained malware designed to infiltrate networks and steal data.

A judge ordered that former President Rafael Correa, who is out of the country, be jailed after failing to appear in court in connection with a probe into the kidnapping of an opposition lawmaker. Chief prosecutor Paul Perez demanded Correa's arrest and extradition from Belgium, where he lives, after the 55-year-old former leader failed to appear in court in Ecuador's capital Quito as required under the terms of an investigation.