INDIA: Flooding in India’s north-east Assam state has killed at least 50 people and displaced 700,000 after days of heavy monsoon rain that overflowed the Brahmaputra River, officials said today.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said nearly 900 villages were submerged and more than 7,000 homes were without electricity.

OCCUPIED WEST BANK: Four Palestinians and one Israeli were killed in a shooting in the northern West Bank, health officials said today. Several more people were injured.

The Palestinian Health Ministry in Ramallah said the four Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces. Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue services did not say who had killed the Israeli man.

SOUTH AFRICA: A South African court ordered a temporary halt to impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa over a scandal involving over $580,000 (around £426,000) of cash stolen from his farm in 2020.

Today’s Western Cape High Court judgment does not stop the impeachment committee from doing other preparatory work for the pending proceedings.

Lawmakers had started impeachment proceedings in June after a damning parliamentary report concluded the president had a case to answer.

CHINA: China announced today it was adding 14 European entities to an export control list in retaliation for the European Union penalising 14 Chinese enterprises as part of its latest round of sanctions against Russia.

Chinese companies will not be allowed to export dual-use items, which can be used for both civilian and military purposes, to the 14 European organisations, China’s Commerce Ministry said in a statement.