BELARUS: An independent journalist has been arrested on charges of high treason, the latest move in a media crackdown by President Alexander Lukashenko’s government, it was reported today.

Danil Palianski, a reporter from the city of Brest, was arrested in September and could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

PAKISTAN: Police fired tear gas and charged at student protesters who ransacked a college building today, as anger spread over an alleged on-campus rape.

Tensions have been high on college campuses since reports of the alleged rape in the eastern city of Lahore spread on social media, and protests have broken out in four cities.

Thursday’s violence started when hundreds of students demonstrated outside a campus in the city of Rawalpindi in Punjab province. 

BANGLADESH: A special court in Bangladesh issued arrest warrants today for former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 45 others on charges of crimes against humanity during a student-led uprising in July and August that forced her to flee the country, a prosecutor said.

Prosecutor BM Sultan Mahmud said that the Dhaka-based International Crimes Tribunal issued the arrest warrants in response to two petitions submitted by the prosecution.

GERMANY: Two men died when their World War II-era aeroplane crashed and caught fire in southern Finland minutes after take off, police said today.

The single-engine, two-seater T-6 Texan plane, an American military trainer aircraft introduced in the 1930s and now used mainly in air shows, crashed into a forest near the Rayskala aviation airfield on Wednesday, killing the “two experienced pilots,” police said.