FRANCE: Culture minister Rachida Dati reported today that a theft had taken place at the Louvre Museum and it would close for the day.

“A robbery took place this morning at the opening of the Louvre Museum,” Ms Dati wrote on X.

The Louvre said it would close “for exceptional reasons,” offering no further details.

RUSSIA: Ukrainian drones struck a major gas processing plant in southern Russia today, sparking a fire, local governor Yevgeny Solntsev has reported.

Governor Solntsev said the drone strikes set fire to a workshop at the Orenburg plant, near the Kazakh border and damaged part of it. There were no casualties, he added.

Russia’s Defence Ministry said today its air defence forces had shot down 45 Ukrainian drones overnight.

BRAZIL: A passenger bus in north-east Brazil has crashed into a sand embankment and flipped on its side in Saloa in the state of Pernambuco, killing at least 17 people, authorities said Saturday.

Police said the driver lost control of the bus causing it to overturn.

The cause of the crash is under investigation. 

UNITED STATES: President Donald Trump said today he would slash US funding to Colombia because the country’s leader “does nothing to stop” drug production.

In a social media post, Trump referred to Colombian President Gustavo Petro as “an illegal drug dealer” who is “low rated and very unpopular.” He warned that President Petro “better close up” drug operations “or the US will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely.”