UGANDA: A nurse in Uganda has died of Ebola, a health official said today, in the first recorded fatality since the last outbreak ended in 2023.

The nurse was an employee of Mulago Hospital, the main referral facility in the capital, Kampala, permanent secretary of health Diana Atwine told reporters today.

FRANCE: Dominique Pelicot, the convicted rapist who horrified France by drugging his then wife, Gisele Pelicot, so other men could rape her, was questioned today about other cases of rape and murder that he’s suspected in.

Mr Pelicot is serving a 20-year prison term after he was found guilty in December for the horrific sexual abuse of his now ex-wife.

SERBIA: Hundreds of Serbian university students today began a 50-mile march toward the northern city of Novi Sad, the latest in their widening protest movement over a deadly overhang collapse in November that killed 15 people.

The students are marching from the capital, Belgrade, to Novi Sad, where a massive blockade of the city bridges over the Danube is planned for Saturday to mark three months since the huge concrete construction collapsed at the railway station.

POLAND: An appeals court in Poland said today that it would rule next month in the case of a women’s rights activist convicted in 2023 of providing another woman with abortion pills.

The activist, Justyna Wydrzynska, was convicted in March 2023 and sentenced to eight months of community service for having sent pills to a woman seeking abortion.

Helping a woman have an abortion is illegal in Poland and can result in up to three years in prison.