IRAN: Iran’s parliament impeached the country’s finance minister and voted to remove him from office today, amid growing concerns over mismanagement and a currency collapse.

Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf announced that 182 out of 273 lawmakers had voted to dismiss Abdolnasser Hemmati, just six months after President Masoud Pezeshkian’s government took office.

HAITI: Police have launched a massive operation in a shanty town controlled by powerful gang leader Jimmy Cherizier – widely known as Barbecue – the government announced today.

Authorities report the operation has killed several gang members in the Lower Delmas area of the capital Port-au-Prince.

INDIA: At least four workers have died after an avalanche swept away a large construction crew working on a highway near India’s mountainous border with Tibet, the Indian army said on Saturday.

The incident took place near the Mana Pass in northern Uttarakhand state on Friday and 55 construction workers were initially trapped under snow. Rescuers pulled out 50, four of whom later died, the Indian army said in a statement.

It said the search for the five remaining missing workers was continuing, with multiple teams of rescuers and military helicopters scanning the incident site. 

ARGENTINA: Far-right President Javier Milei signalled that a new deal with the International Monetary Fund was imminent over the weekend, as he gave his annual address to Congress following a divisive first year in office.

Mr Milei said in the coming days he would “ask Congress to support the government in this new agreement with the International Monetary Fund” even as it seemed Argentina had yet to close the deal.