GERMANY: A driver rammed a car into a crowd today in the south-western city of Mannheim, killing one person and injuring several others, police said as they asked the public to stay away from the city centre and remain in their homes.

Police said that a suspect was now in custody, and did not immediately characterise the incident as an attack. 

MEXICO: President Claudia Sheinbaum said today that her administration is waiting to see if US President Donald Trump makes good on his threat to impose 25 per cent tariffs on Mexican imports.

Her cabinet secretaries for security and trade, among others, have been in constant communication with their US counterparts, she said, with the possibility that she and Mr Trump would speak early this week.

PAKISTAN: A female suicide bomber killed one person and injured three when she targeted the vehicle of a paramilitary patrol in Kalat in Pakistan’s south-western Balochistan province, a police official said today.

The last confirmed suicide attack by a woman was in 2022, when three Chinese teachers and their Pakistani driver were killed in an explosion that ripped through their van at a university campus in Karachi.

LEBANON: Lebanon’s president said today that he hopes to strengthen ties with Saudi Arabia during a visit to the kingdom following years of strained relations.

Joseph Aoun became Lebanon’s first head of state to visit Riyadh in six years.

Saudi Arabia has been vocal about its concerns over Lebanon’s Hezbollah group. In recent years, it imposed a travel and import ban on Lebanon.