PAKISTAN: Gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on polio workers and their escort during a door-to-door vaccination campaign in north-western Pakistan today, killing an officer and a polio worker, police said.

No-one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack in Bajur, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and former Pakistani Taliban stronghold, according to local police chief Abdul Aziz.

Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi issued a statement condemning the attack.

FRANCE: Authorities foiled three plots to attack the Olympics and Paralympic Games in Paris and other host cities, the national counterterrorism prosecutor said today.

Olivier Christen said the plots included plans to attack “Israeli institutions or representatives of Israel in Paris” during the July 26 to August 11 Olympic competition. 

The prosecutor told broadcaster France Info that “the Israeli team itself was not specifically targeted.” 

MEXICO: The Senate voted to overhaul the country’s judiciary early today, clearing the biggest hurdle for a controversial constitutional revision that will make all judges stand for election.

The approval came after hundreds of critics of the plan pushed their way into the Senate, interrupting the session after it appeared that Morena, the governing party, had lined up the necessary votes to pass the proposal.

CHINA: Hong Kong’s government said today that the United States House of Representatives twisted facts as it passed a Bill that could close its representative offices in the US, while Beijing threatened to take countermeasures.

The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Certification Act is one of a series of proposed anti-China laws being scrutinised by the House this week.