News of the Day From Around the World, Aug. 9

Tropical Storm Javier pushed closer to the resort city of Cabo San Lucas on the tip of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula on Monday, while the death toll from former Hurricane Earl rose to 45 in the country’s eastern mountains.

Communist guerrillas in the Philippines vowed Monday to step up their attacks, defying a warning by President Rodrigo Duterte and putting at risk scheduled peace talks.

The Communist Party of the Philippines and its guerrilla wing, the New People’s Army, rejected Duterte’s demand and vowed to increase the manufacture of remotely detonated explosive devices and their use in guerrilla assaults.

Iran-backed militant groups from Lebanon and Iraq are deploying hundreds of additional fighters to front lines in the Syrian city of Aleppo, Iranian media and militia officials said Monday, after Syrian rebels breached a government-imposed siege and cut a key government route to the contested city over the weekend.

Rebels breached the Syrian government siege on opposition neighborhoods in the city of Aleppo Saturday, opening a corridor and marking a major military breakthrough.

Uganda’s government said Monday that it “will continue to suppress” the public activities of homosexuals and that a rehabilitation program has been developed to allow them to “lead normal lives again.”

Simon Lokodo, a minister in charge of ethics and integrity, told reporters that gay pride activities are being organized “with the influence of some foreign forces” he didn’t name.