FRANCE: Someone threw an incendiary device that exploded outside the Russian Consulate in Marseille early today, authorities said, on the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. No injuries were reported.

A second device, also thrown against the consulate’s outer wall, failed to detonate and landed on the pavement. 

The suspect fled and an investigation has been launched.

INDONESIA: An Islamic sharia court in Indonesia’s Aceh province today sentenced two men to public caning for having gay sex.

The couple were arrested on November 7, after neighbourhood vigilantes in the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, suspected them of being gay and broke into their rented room to catch them naked and hugging each other.

The lead judge said that the two college students were “legally and convincingly” proven to have had gay sex and would receive 85 and 80 strokes respectively.

HAITI: A Kenyan police officer sent to Haiti to help deal with violent gangs was fatally shot in a fight with one of the gangs, Kenyan authorities said on Sunday.

The shooting happened in the western Artibonite region, where Kenyan police sent to neutralise Haitian gangs were conducting an operation this past week. 

CONGO: More than 7,000 people have died this year as the Rwanda-backed M23 militia have captured unprecedented amounts of territory in mineral-rich eastern Congo, Congo’s prime minister said yesterday.

Judith Suminwa Tuluka told the UN Human Rights Council that the security and humanitarian situation in the region “has reached alarming levels.”