DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: A boat carrying scores of passengers capsized on Lake Kivu in the east of the country today, killing at least 50 people.

Eyewitnesses said they had seen rescue services recover at least 50 bodies from the water and that 10 people had survived and were taken to the local hospital.

The boat, which was going from Minova in South Kivu province to Goma in North Kivu, appears to have been overloaded with passengers and sank while trying to dock just yards from the port of Kituku.

EUROPEAN UNION: The EU Commission announced today that it is taking Hungary’s far-right government to court over laws that could allow the authorities to investigate and prosecute people accused of undermining the country’s sovereignty.

The Sovereignty Protection Act created a government authority with the power to gather information on any groups or individuals that benefit from foreign funding and influence public debate. 

NATO: New secretary-general Mark Rutte visited Ukraine today on his first official trip since taking office.

He met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev as air raid sirens in the Ukrainian capital sounded twice.

Mr Rutte vowed when he took office on Tuesday to help shore up Western support for Ukraine in the military alliance’s proxy war with Russia.

SWEDEN: Two Swedish teenagers were placed in pre-trial detention today over two pre-dawn explosions in the vicinity of the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen the day before.

Prosecutors said investigators were establishing “whether the motive could be a terror attack.” No-one was injured by the blasts, which occurred in a district where several foreign diplomatic missions are located.