PAKISTAN: The country’s largest airport, funded and built in the south-west as part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, has become operational, officials said today.

Gwadar airport is in the province of Balochistan, which has for decades been the scene of an insurgency by separatists demanding autonomy or outright independence.

The opening took place months after Chinese Premier Li Qiang and his Pakistani counterpart Shehbaz Sharif virtually inaugurated the airport.

YEMEN: The Houthi-led government signalled today that it will now limit attacks in the Red Sea corridor to only Israeli-affiliated ships.

The announcement came as the ceasefire in Gaza entered its second day.

The Yemeni attacks have halved traffic through the region, cutting deeply into the revenues of shipping companies forced to use alternative routes between Asia and Europe.

SERBIA: Eight people died today in a fire at a home for older people on the outskirts of the capital Belgrade that a resident is suspected of starting deliberately.

Seven others were injured in the blaze in Barajevo, a municipality on the southern edge of Belgrade, RTS television reported.

GHANA: Soldiers have killed at least seven people at a goldmine in the south of the West African country.

On Sunday, the armed forces said in a statement on X that around 60 “illegal miners” carrying locally manufactured rifles and other weapons had breached the security fences of the Obuasi gold mining site in the Ashanti region the night before. 

The intruders fired at a military patrol deployed there, which returned fire, killing seven of the intruders and wounding one, the military said.