PAKISTAN: The media regulator said today that it has blocked Wikipedia services in the country for hurting Muslim sentiment by not removing alleged blasphemous content from the site.

Under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, anyone found guilty of insulting Islam or its figures can be sentenced to death.

AUSTRALIA: Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe quit the Green Party today in a disagreement over a referendum to be held this year that would create an indigenous voice to parliament.

The Greens have suggested they will support a referendum but Ms Thorpe had argued that Australia should first sign a treaty with its original inhabitants that acknowledged that they had never ceded their sovereignty to the British colonists.

UKRAINE: Former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett, who served briefly as a mediator at the start of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, says he drew a promise from President Vladimir Putin not to kill his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky.

Mr Bennett emerged as an unlikely intermediary in the war’s first weeks, when he made a snap trip to Moscow last March.

KENYA:  A judge in Kenya has ruled that Facebook’s parent company, Meta, can be sued in the east African country.

Meta had tried to have the case dropped, arguing that Kenyan courts do not have jurisdiction over their operations.

A former Facebook moderator in Kenya, Daniel Motaung, is suing the company claiming poor working conditions.

Motaung said that while working as a moderator he was exposed to gruesome content such as rape, torture and beheadings that risked his and colleagues’ mental health.