CARICOM: Caribbean Community leaders have backed a Jamaican initiative to take the regional reparations fight to Britain via the Privy Council.

The idea, an initiative of the Jamaican cabinet and reparations commission, is to ask the council to rule whether slavery and the forced transport of enslaved Africans to Jamaica and other territories amounted to a criminal act and a crime against humanity.

NORTHERN IRELAND: Authorities said today that they are investigating a bonfire that featured effigies of migrants in a boat and a banner reading “stop the boats’’ to determine whether it was a hate incident.

Church leaders and politicians complained about the display in the Co Tyrone village of Moygashel before it was set alight on Thursday night. Parts of Northern Ireland were gripped by anti-immigrant rioting last month.

CAMBODIA: MPs passed a constitutional amendment today allowing the government to draft legislation to revoke the citizenship of anyone found guilty of conspiring with foreign nations to harm the national interest.

The change would apply to lifelong Cambodian citizens, people with dual citizenship in Cambodia and another nation and people from other countries who have been granted Cambodian citizenship.

UNITED STATES: The State Department fired more than 1,300 employees today in line with a dramatic reorganisation plan initiated by the Trump administration earlier this year.

The department sent lay-off notices to 1,107 civil servants and 246 foreign service officers with domestic assignments, said a senior State Department official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.