EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Lawyers for Equatorial Guinea accused France of “neo-colonial” behaviour today, urging United Nations judges to block the sale of a mansion on one of Paris’s poshest avenues.

The case at the International Court of Justice alleges France is breaking international law by refusing to return assets seized during a corruption investigation into Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, the son of Equatorial Guinea’s president.

France’s approach “may be described as paternalistic and even neo-colonial,” said lawyer Carmelo Nvono-Nca.

INDIA: Airlines operating several Boeing models on Monday were ordered to examine fuel control switches, days after an investigation into last month’s Air India plane crash found they were flipped off, starving both engines of fuel.

A preliminary report into the crash that killed 260 people in Ahmedabad found that the switches shifted, cutting off fuel supply to both engines.

AUSTRALIA: The government has won a landmark case against residents of the Torres Strait Islands being hit hard by climate change.

The federal court ruled against island leaders alleging a breach of duty of care to provide protection against the impacts of climate change.

The court said climate policy was a matter for parliament, not the courts.

BRAZIL: The chief prosecutor called on Monday for a guilty verdict in the case of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is accused of leading an alleged coup to overturn the 2022 election in which he was defeated.

“The evidence is clear: the defendant acted systematically to incite insurrection and the destabilisation of the democratic rule of law,” said Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet.

Mr Bolsonaro denies the accusations.