FRANCE: Telegram chief executive Pavel Durov was detained at Paris Le Bourget airport, French media reported today.

Mr Durov is reportedly facing allegations that his encrypted platform has been used for money laundering, drug trafficking and allowing the sharing of content linked to sexual exploitation of minors.

INDONESIA: Torrential rains caused a flash flood on Indonesia’s eastern Ternate Island, sweeping away residential areas and leaving 13 people dead today, officials said.

The deluges cut off the main road and access to the village of Rua in North Maluku province, the most hard-hit area, and buried dozens of houses and buildings under the mud. 

CHINA: Coastguard officials said today it was forced to take action against a Philippine vessel that ignored warnings and caused a light collision with its vessel in the South China Sea.

Gan Yu, the coastguard’s spokesperson, said that the Philippine vessel entered the waters around Sabina Shoal in the Xianbin Reef in the Nansha Islands, ignored warnings and sailed towards the coastguard ship “unprofessionally” and “dangerously,” causing the two vessels to brush against each other.

FRANCE: Police have detained a suspect in an arson attack on a synagogue at the seaside resort town of La Grande Motte, near Montpellier that injured a police officer, the country’s acting interior minister said today.

Two cars parked at the Beth Yaacov synagogue complex in the south western town, were set ablaze on Saturday morning. Firefighters discovered additional fires at two entrances to the synagogue. 

A police officer who walked up to the site was injured after a propane gas tank placed near the burning vehicles exploded.