GERMANY: A member of the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD) was stabbed and wounded in the south-western city of Mannheim, the DPA news agency reported today.

DPA reported that an AfD candidate had been attacked after reportedly catching somebody trying to tear down an election poster on Tuesday evening. 

The candidate’s life is not in danger.

SOUTH KOREA: The United States flew a long-range B-1B bomber over the Korean peninsula today, in its first precision-guided bombing drill with South Korea in seven years, Seoul’s military said.

The show of force against North Korea came amid rising tensions over the Pyongyang’s recent launches of balloons carrying rubbish towards the South.

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: President Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan has met with an official in the Afghanistan Taliban government still wanted by the United States on an up to $10 million (£8m) bounty over his involvement in an attack that killed a US citizen and other assaults.

Tuesday’s meeting between the president and Sirajuddin Haqqani  highlighted the growing international divide on how to deal with the Taliban.

While the West still doesn’t recognise the Islamist movement as Kabul’s government, nations in the Middle East and elsewhere have established diplomatic relations.

UNITED STATES: More than 34 million people were warned today to expect extreme temperatures, as a heat dome descends on the western part of the country this week.

Forecasters have issued warnings to the populations of Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah to take precautions to deal with temperatures that are expected to hit 40°C before Friday.

Similar temperatures last year left at least a dozen people dead in the south-west.