PAKISTAN: Militants attacked a Pakistani security post near the country’s border with Iran today, triggering a shoot-out that killed two soldiers, the military said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack in the area of Singwan in restive south-western Baluchistan province. The military said the two slain troops “embraced martyrdom while fighting bravely against the terrorists.”

EUROPEAN UNION: The EU’s border and coastguard agency is collecting information from migrants that could end up identifying vulnerable people seeking sanctuary from persecution in their homelands, according to a report by the EU’s data protection watchdog.

The European Data Protection Supervisor also announced that it is launching an investigation into whether Frontex gathered information that it is not entitled to collect and illegally provided those details about migrants to the EU’s police agency Europol.

GERMANY: A train derailment a year ago in the German Alps that left five people dead was caused primarily by damaged concrete ties on the track, investigators said today.

The double-deck regional train derailed on June 3 2022, shortly after leaving the Alpine resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen for Munich.

A 13-year-old boy and four women, including two refugees from Ukraine, were killed. More than 70 people were injured, 16 of them seriously.

SENEGAL: The opposition leader in Senegal, Ousmane Sonko, has been sentenced by a court to two years in prison for “corrupting the youth” but he was cleared of allegations of rape.

Critics of the government say the aim of the trial was to prevent Mr Sonko from standing in next year’s presidential elections.