CZECH REPUBLIC: A fire broke out in a restaurant in northern Czech Republic, killing six people and leaving six others with serious injuries, officials said today.

Firefighters said that the U Kojota restaurant in the city of Most, some 63 miles north of Prague, was still open when the fire started before midnight on Saturday. 

Police and firefighters said that the likely cause was a gas heater that overturned.

CANADA: President-elect Donald Trump’s remarks that Canada should become the 51st state drew condemnation today from a former Canadian prime minister who offered blunt advice to the incoming United States leader: “Give your head a shake!”

Jean Chretien, who was Canada’s prime minister from 1993 to 2003, joined a chorus of criticism from the US’s neighbour.

CHAD: The Patriotic Salvation Movement (MPS) took the majority of votes in last month’s parliamentary election, according to provisional results announced on Saturday.

In what was the first parliamentary election in Chad in more than a decade, head of the country’s electoral commission, Ahmed Bartchiret, said that the ruling MPS party won 124 out of 188 seats, while the voter turnout was 51.5 per cent.

The poll was boycotted by the main opposition parties.

MAYOTTE: The French territory of Mayotte was battered by a new tropical storm today, just weeks after the worst cyclone to hit the islands in nearly a century laid waste to entire neighbourhoods and villages.

Mayotte’s people were ordered to stay indoors or find a solid shelter if they didn’t have one, and store food and water, as Tropical Storm Dikeledi brought heavy rains and strong winds to once again pound France’s poorest department.