DENMARK: The country’s two main communist parties announced today that they are reunifying from September 3 after being divided for 33 years.

Announcing the forthcoming merger with the Communist Party in Denmark (KPiD), Communist Party of Denmark (DKP) international secretary Martin Minka Jensen said: “The historical forces that defined the [DKP] since its founding in 1919 are forming the framing for the reunited party.”

He added that Denmark needed a strong communist party that can be defined in the workers’ movement and the class struggle.

UGANDA: The World Bank has refused any new loans to the country after it passed new anti-gay laws earlier this year.

“No new public financing to Uganda will be presented to our board of executive directors until the efficacy of the additional measures has been tested,” the bank said in a statement on Tuesday.

“Our goal is to protect sexual and gender minorities from discrimination and exclusion in the projects we finance.”

HAITI: US nurse Alix Dorsainvil and her daughter were freed by their captors today, nearly two weeks after being kidnapped in the capital Port-au-Prince, according to aid organisation El Roi Haiti.

The Christian group founded by Ms Dorsainvil’s husband asked that neither she nor her family be contacted. 

There were no other details immediately available, including whether any ransom was paid.

FRANCE: A fire ripped through a holiday home for adults with disabilities today, killing at least nine people, the head of rescue operations said.

Authorities said that crews were searching for the bodies of two others feared dead in the fire in eastern France.