DENMARK: Social Democratic Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is set to begin a third term of office, leading a centre-left coalition of four parties after two months of negotiations.

Besides Ms Frederiksen’s own party, the new government will include the centrist Moderate party of outgoing Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, the Green Left and the Danish Social Liberal Party, the monarchy said in a statement on Monday.

MOZAMBIQUE: At least five Mozambican nationals were killed in “xenophobic attacks” in South Africa last weekend, the government said today.

The Mozambican government press office said around 800 of the country’s nationals had been caught up in violence in the southern coastal city of Mossel Bay.

They were the first deaths officially linked to anti-immigration protests in South Africa.

UNITED STATES: The Defence Department has declared its press office a classified space inaccessible to journalists, in the latest of a series of restriction on media access at the Pentagon.

Acting press secretary Joel Valdez said: “The Pentagon Press Office has been redesignated as a sensitive compartmented information facility due to speechwriters from the office of the secretary of war sharing the facility.” 

ISRAEL: Weapons exports reached a record high of more than $19 billion (£14bn) last year, a 30 per cent increase on 2024,the Defence Ministry said today.

More than half of the 2025 sales were “megadeals” valued at $100 million (£74m) or more, the ministry said, adding that sales have more than doubled in the last five years.

It did not identify any of the buyers.