GERMANY: The government has announced the expulsion of a Russian diplomat over a case in which a woman was arrested on suspicion of supplying information related to the war in Ukraine to an intelligence contact at Moscow’s embassy in Berlin.

The Foreign Ministry said today that “the German government doesn’t tolerate espionage in Germany, still less under the disguise of diplomatic status.”

It said it had summoned Moscow’s ambassador and told him it was expelling “the person in question who spied on behalf of Russia.”

NIGERIA: More than a million people in the north-east could lose access to emergency food and nutrition aid within weeks unless funding is secured, the World Food Programme warned today.

It said 35 million people in Nigeria were likely to experience severe hunger this year, the highest figure ever recorded by the United Nations agency in the country.

PHILIPPINES: A Filipina journalist was found guilty of terrorism charges today, a verdict that was condemned by press freedom watchdogs but welcomed by officials fighting a communist insurgency.

Presiding Judge Georgina Perez of the Regional Trial Court in central Tacloban city convicted Frenchie Mae Cumpio and human rights missionary Marielle Domequil, who have been jailed for nearly six years, of financing terrorism. 

MALAYSIA: Former army chief Hafizuddiean Jantan was charged today with laundering more than 2.1 million ringgit (around £387,000) following investigations into alleged corruption in defence contracts.

He pleaded not guilty to four charges of receiving proceeds from illegal activities between 2024 and 2025 under an anti-money laundering law.