POLAND: Polish farmers marched through downtown Warsaw today to protest against the EU’s climate policies and to oppose the pro-EU government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

The march was organised by Solidarity, a farmers’ trade union strongly opposed to the EU’s farming policies, in particular a policy known as the Green Deal, which the farmers say interferes with their work and imposes high costs.

GULF OF ADEN: A European naval force detained six suspected pirates today after they opened fire on an oil tanker travelling through the Gulf of Aden, officials said.

The attack on the Marshall Islands-flagged Chrystal Arctic comes as Yemen’s Houthi-led government have also been attacking ships travelling through the crucial waterway, the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait connecting them. 

The assaults have slowed commercial traffic through the key maritime route onward to the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean Sea.

CHAD: Chad’s military leader, Mahamat Deby Itno, was declared the winner of this week’s presidential election, according to provisional results released on Thursday. 

The figures showed Deby Itno won with just over 61 per cent of the vote, with the runner-up Succes Masra falling far behind, with over 18.5 per cent. 

UKRAINE: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky fired the head of the department responsible for his personal protection after two of its officers were detained this week over an alleged assassination plot.

President Zelensky published a decree to “dismiss Sergiy Leonidovich Rud from the post of head of the state protection department of Ukraine,” but did not state a reason for Rud’s removal, or name a replacement.