ITALY: Italy extended its border checks on visitors from Spain for another 15 days on Tuesday.

The checks were imposed after more than 72,000 migrants poured into Spain’s north African territory of Ceuta from Morocco in late July.

Spain, which had responded to Rome’s sanctions with its own border checks on people coming from Italy, also extended its identical measures for another 15 days, the Spanish Foreign Ministry said.

KOREAN PENINSULA: A South Korean court ruled yesterday that North Korea should pay the South 44.6 billion won (£24 million) for blowing up a joint liaison office between the countries in 2020.

The ruling by the Seoul Central District Court was symbolic as there is no process to force the North to pay.

THE HAGUE: A European Union-backed court yesterday convicted former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci of four counts of war crimes committed during his country’s war for independence from Serbia and sentenced him to 25 years in prison.

Mr Thaci was convicted at the Hague’s Kosovo Specialist Chambers court of murder, torture, cruel treatment and arbitrary detention.

Prosecutors asked for a maximum 45-year prison sentence for Mr Thaci and the other defendants, Kadri Veseli, Rexhep Selimi and Jakup Krasniqi. They all denied the charges.

SUDAN: A gold mine collapse killed at least 67 people in Sudan, a medical group said yesterday.

The tragedy happened in al-Zara gold mine in the town of Nuhud in West Kodporan province late Tuesday. The area is controlled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which has been at war with the country’s military for over three years.