MADAGASCAR: The death toll after two motorboats carrying refugees from Somalia capsized in the Indian Ocean near Madagascar has risen to 25, authorities said today.

Another 48 people were rescued on Sunday from waters near the island of Nosy Be off northern Madagascar, said Jean-Edmond Randrianantenaina, the head of Madagascar’s Maritime Ports Agency.

Somali authorities said on Sunday that they believed 24 people had been killed. It was not clear what caused the boats to capsize.

UAE: Authorities in the United Arab Emirates said today that three Uzbek nationals have been arrested for the killing of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi.

Zvi Kogan, an ultra-Orthodox rabbi who went missing on Thursday, ran a kosher grocery store in Dubai, where Israelis have flocked for commerce and tourism since the two countries forged diplomatic ties in the 2020 Abraham Accords.

INDIA: Hundreds of supporters of India’s opposition Congress party protested today against billionaire Gautam Adani, who was recently accused in the United States of fraud and bribery, and accused the government of protecting the Indian coal magnate.

Congress party activists demonstrated near Parliament in New Delhi to demand the immediate arrest of Mr Adani, who is seen as close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

LITHUANIA:  A DHL cargo plane crashed on approach to an airport in Lithuania’s capital and skidded into a house thismorning, killing a Spanish crew member, officials said. The cause of the accident is under investigation.

A surveillance video from a nearby company showed the plane descending normally as it approached the airport, and then exploding into a huge fireball behind a building.