ISRAEL: The Israeli military today suspended a battalion whose soldiers assaulted a CNN crew in the occupied West Bank.

The army said it was suspending the Netzah Yehuda battalion after soldiers were filmed assaulting the CNN crew last week.

Netzah Yehuda is a unit of ultra-Orthodox soldiers that has been linked to abuses of Palestinian civilians in the past, including the death of a Palestinian-American man in 2022.

RUSSIA: Russia today expelled a British diplomat over accusations of spying that were rejected as “complete nonsense” by London.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the country’s top domestic security agency, said the diplomat had been “carrying out intelligence and subversive activities.”

The FSB said the diplomat had sought to gather “sensitive information” about the Russian economy in “unofficial meetings” with Russian experts and had been ordered to leave Russia within two weeks.

FRANCE: French authorities are investigating a suspected link to Iran after thwarting a bomb attack on Saturday outside a Bank of America building in Paris, the interior minister said today.

Authorities suspect there could be a link to Iran due to similarities to other recent attempted attacks in Europe which a pro-Iran group claimed credit for, French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said.

Three suspects have since been arrested.

SOUTH SUDAN: Gunmen killed more than 70 people in South Sudan over a goldmining row on the outskirts of the capital over the weekend, a police spokesperson confirmed today.

A video of dozens of bodies lying on open ground was shared online, and a local journalist said many other victims are believed to have fled to the bushes.

CHINA: China announced today that it is sanctioning a right-wing Japanese lawmaker, accusing him of “colluding with” separatists in China’s breakaway province of Taiwan.

Japan called the step unacceptable and regrettable and demanded that China retract it immediately.

“The one-sided action taken by China as if to intimidate those of different views than its own is absolutely unacceptable,” Japan’s Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Masanao Ozaki said.