VOTE DISPUTE: Guinea-Bissau’s electoral commission said today that it’s unable to finalise results of a disputed presidential vote after armed men broke into its office and stole vote tally sheets the same day the military seized power.

It said the break-in happened on November 26, three days after presidential and legislative elections in which incumbent President Umaro Sissoco Embalo and opposition candidate Fernando Dias da Costa each claimed victory.

SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Emergency crews raced to reach survivors today as the death toll from last week’s catastrophic floods and landslides hit 1,303 in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand, with more than 800 people missing.

Some 712 people were confirmed dead in Indonesia, 410 in Sri Lanka and 181 in Thailand after heavy monsoon rains, authorities said on Tuesday. 

Sri Lanka’s President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said it’s too early to determine the exact number of dead.

HONDURAS: Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez, sentenced last year to 45 years in prison for his role in helping drug traffickers move hundreds of tons of cocaine to the United States, was released from prison on Monday following a pardon from President Donald Trump.

The US Bureau of Prisons confirmed his release from US Penitentiary, Hazelton, in West Virginia. 

GERMANY: A Libyan man accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes in a Tripoli prison was sent by Germany to the International Criminal Court today.

ICC prosecutors allege Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri was a senior commander at the Mitiga prison, where they say he ordered or oversaw atrocities including murder, torture, rape and sexual violence between 2015 and 2020.