Following days of rumors, Uzbekistan hasannounced the death of its president, IslamKarimov aged at 78. He was previously said to becritically ill. The funeral will take place on Saturday inhis home city of Samarkand.
A bomb explosion in the southern Philippines appears to have killed at least 12 people andinjured many more. The blast took place in a busy night market in Davao, the hometown ofpresident Rodrigo Duterte.
Hungarian police have recruited 3,000 officers that it described as border hunters to bedeployed along to the southern frontier with Serbia. They will help bolster the 10,000-strongforce already guarding the razor-wire fence to keep out migrants.
A delegation from the United Nations Security Council is in South Sudan to discuss a UNresolution to send 4,000 extra peacekeepers to the country. The South Sudanese governmenthas described the decision as neo-colonialist.
Opposition leaders in Gabon who have been tried for 3 days in their party headquarters, havebeen allowed to leave. Troops surrounded the building after opponents of president Ali Bongoset the national assembly on fire.
An MP in Kenya has asked parliament to pass a law recognizing a third gender. Isaac Mwaurasaid this would help end discrimination against intersex people, who were born with both maleand female characteristics. A serving British marine has been charged with terrorism offenses following a policeinvestigation into dissident Irish republican activity in Northern Ireland. Ciarán Maxwell has beenremanded in custody until his next court appearance on Monday.
A Church of England bishop has become the first to publicly declare that he is gay and in arelationship, although celibate. The revelation by the Right Reverend Nicholas Chamberlain, islikely to be embraced by campaigners for equality and alarm conservatives.
