ISRAEL: Officials seized the AP news agency’s broadcasting equipment in the south of the country today, accusing it of violating a new media law by providing images to Al Jazeera.

The Qatari satellite channel is among thousands of clients that receive live video feeds from the AP and other news organisations.

“We urge the Israeli authorities to return our equipment,” the organisation said today, “so we can continue to provide this important visual journalism to thousands of media outlets around the world.”

ARGENTINA: Spain pulled its ambassador from Buenos Aires today in response to comments made by President Javier Milei at a far-right rally in Madrid on Sunday, where he accused the Spanish prime minister’s wife of corruption and described socialism as “cursed and carcinogenic.”

Mr Milei responded angrily to Madrid’s move yesterday, telling the local La Nacion news channel that the Spanish decision was “nonsense typical of an arrogant socialist.”

“Socialists are capable of doing anything,” he said.

THAILAND: A Boeing 777 Singapore Airlines flight hit severe turbulence over the Indian Ocean and descended 6,000 feet in a span of about three minutes, the carrier said today, leaving a British man dead and more than two dozen other passengers injured.

The flight, which took off from London Heathrow, was then diverted and landed in stormy weather in Bangkok.

Authorities said the 73-year-old British man may have suffered a heart attack, though that has not been confirmed.

AUSTRIA: Chancellor Karl Nehammer praised the British government tomorrow as a “pioneer” for it plans to exile refugees to Rwanda as he hosted Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in Vienna today.

Mr Nehammer said Austria and Britain are “strategic partners when it comes to being able to conduct asylum proceedings in safe third countries.”

Austria is one of 15 EU countries that called on the bloc last week to make more agreements with countries that migrants depart from or travel through to get to Europe.