NIGERIA: Around 700 people are thought to have died due to floods that hit the Nigerian town of Mokwa, officials said today.

The official death toll has risen to more than 200 but there are still another 500 missing in the town in the central Niger state, according to local official Musa Kimboku.

The floods that swept through the Mokwa districts of Tiffin Maza and Anguwan Hausawa were the worst to hit the area in 60 years.

CAMBODIA: Cambodia’s government said today it plans to seek a ruling from the United Nations International Court of Justice over border disputes with neighbouring Thailand — one of which triggered a fatal military clash last week. 

A 1962 ruling by the same court awarded Cambodia the disputed territory on which a historic temple is located.

Thai officials did not immediately respond.

IRAN: Iranian, Egyptian and United Nations leaders met in Cairo today to discuss Iran’s nuclear programme after a report from the UN nuclear watchdog agency said Iran is further increasing its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels.

Rafael Mariano Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said the agency compiled the report because Iranian's uranium enrichment was an ongoing concern.

PAKISTAN: The efforts of Pakistani authorities to eliminate polio suffered a blow today after a northern enclave reported its first case in seven years. 

The virus was detected in a child from the district of Diamer in the Gilgit-Baltistan region, according to the country’s polio eradication program.

Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan remain the only two countries where the spread of the wild polio virus has not been stopped.