News of the day from across the globe, June 21

An Iraqi military commander said Monday that his forces are battling Islamic State militants in the northern neighborhoods of Fallujah days after most of the city was declared liberated.

2 Tycoon sentenced: A Serbian court sentenced one of the richest businessmen in the Balkans to five years in prison for tax evasion Monday in a trial that the government sees as a major effort to curb corruption as it seeks European Union membership.

The storm, centered near Tuxpan, is expected to produce rainfall totals of 6 to 10 inches with isolated areas getting as much as 15 inches in higher terrain over several Mexican states.

EU foreign ministers agreed to extend Operation Sophia by a year to July 2017 and tasked it with building up Libya’s coast guard and navy.

Tunisian authorities have decided to prolong for another month the state of emergency declared after a November attack on presidential guards in the capital that killed 12 members of the force.

The state of emergency confers exceptional powers on authorities, notably to forbid strikes and public gatherings, close movie theaters and control the press.

In a nationwide crackdown on medical charlatans, Nepalese police have arrested 53 people for allegedly working as doctors with fake credentials or false education certificates and said Monday that more suspects would be arrested this week.

Suspected Islamic extremists ambushed a police vehicle in northern Kenya and killed five officers Monday, officials said.