SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Thai and Cambodian officials met in Malaysia today to seek a border agreement to prevent future clashes.

A ceasefire was agreed last week after five days of fighting which killed dozens. The talks concern protocols to avoid conflict and will not attempt to resolve the longstanding territorial dispute between the two.

IRAN: Iran has established a Supreme National Defence Council, state media said today, reminiscent of the war council established during the Iran-Iraq war.

The council, including the parliamentary speaker, head of the judiciary and military chiefs, is tasked with improving war readiness following the Israeli and US attacks on Iran in June, which killed more than a thousand people.

DENMARK: Aalborg Zoo has launched a controversial appeal for people to donate their pets as food for its predatory exhibits.

“If you have a healthy animal that needs to be given away for various reasons, feel free to donate it to us,” the zoo says in an online message, giving rabbits and guinea pigs as examples of pets the zoo animals might want to eat.

CHILE: The search for five miners trapped by a collapsed shaft has come to a tragic end with all confirmed dead.

The collapse killed another miner instantly and trapped the five in the world’s largest underground copper mine, El Teniente. 

It was triggered by an earthquake, though authorities are investigating whether the tremor may itself have been caused by mining activity.