HONG KONG-BEIJING OFFICIAL — Hong Kong authorities roll out a massive security operation as they brace for protests during a top Beijing official's visit to the semiautonomous city, where tensions are rising over Chinese rule. 

CHINA-CULTURAL REVOLUTION — China's official media reaffirm the Communist Party's longstanding judgment that the Cultural Revolution was a catastrophic mistake after staying silent on Monday's 50th anniversary of the start of the decade-long upheaval. 

NKOREA-FOREIGN MINISTER — North Korea names a career diplomat and ex-nuclear envoy with broad experience in negotiating with rivals South Korea and the United States as its new foreign minister. 

PHILIPPINES-DUTERTE-KILLINGS — Nine years ago Father Amado Picardal helped bury a teenager from a slum family who was gunned down by motorcycle-riding assassins in the southern city of Davao. He says it was whispered that the man behind the killing was none other than Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, who was running an anti-crime campaign in the vast port city. Memories of that violence flashed back in the Roman Catholic priest's mind when the tough-talking mayor triumphed in last week's presidential election on a pledge to replicate his Davao crime-busting style in the rest of the Philippines. A Duterte presidency is "very frightening," Picardal says. 

INDONESIA-TRAFFICKED FISHERMEN — Three Thai fishing boat captains have escaped from custody in Indonesia after their vessels were seized with dozens of trafficked foreign fishermen on board, an official says.