GERMANY:

Opposition politician Sahra Wagenknecht today formally founded a new party that combines left-wing economic policy with a restrictive approach to migration and other positions that some observers believe could help it take votes away from the far-right Alternative for Germany.

She said her Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance — Reason and Fairness will make its electoral debut in the European Parliament election in June. 

CHINA:

Authorities said today it had detained an individual accused of collecting state secrets on behalf of Britain’s foreign intelligence agency MI6.

The Ministry of State Security posted on social media that Britain had been co-operating since 2015 with the citizen of a third nation with the surname Huang.

No further information on the intelligence gathered was given

NORWAY:

Right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage in 2011, launched his second attempt at suing the state today, accusing the Justice Ministry of breaching his human rights.

Mr Breivik, who has changed his name to Fjotolf Hansen, claims that the isolation he’s been placed under since he started serving his prison sentence in 2012 amounts to inhumane punishment under the European Convention on Human Rights. 

SWITZERLAND:

A former interior minister of Gambia was going on trial today in Switzerland on charges including crimes against humanity for his alleged role in years of repression by the west African country’s security forces against opponents of its long-time dictator.

Advocacy groups hailed the trial of Ousman Sonko, Gambia’s interior minister from 2006 to 2016, as an opportunity to reach a conviction under “universal jurisdiction,” which allows the prosecution of serious crimes committed abroad.