ISRAEL: Protesters disrupted a speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today as he spoke at a nationally broadcast ceremony at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem for the victims of Hamas’s attack on southern Israel last year. 

Mr Netanyahu was forced to stand motionless at the lectern for over a minute during the ceremony as audience members shouted “Shame on you.” Another shouted, “My father was killed.”

Many Israelis blame Mr Netanyahu for the failures that led to the attack and hold him responsible for not yet bringing home remaining hostages.

KENYA: Boniface Mwangi, a prominent Kenyan human rights activist, was detained by police in the capital Nairobi today.

Mr Mwangi was reportedly detained by six masked individuals who forcibly removed him from his home.

Police spokesperson Resila Onyango confirmed the arrest but provided no further details.

BRAZIL: Voters in Brazil’s biggest city, Sao Paulo, went to the polls today in a mayoral race pitting incumbent Mayor Ricardo Nunes against left-wing lawmaker Guilherme Boulos.

Mr Nunes has lukewarm support from former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro while Mr Boulos is an ally of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. 

BOLIVIA: Former president Evo Morales said he survived an assassination attempt today after unidentified men opened fire on his car. He was not injured and there was no immediate confirmation of the attack from authorities.

Mr Morales alleged the shots were fired while he was being driven in Bolivia’s coca leaf-growing region of Chapare, the ex-president’s rural stronghold whose residents have blockaded the country’s main east-west highway for the past two weeks.