PALESTINE: A protester was shot dead by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank today.

Atef Hanaisheh, 45, died after being shot in the head in the village of Beit Dagan, near Nablus, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

The Israeli military said protesters had thrown rocks at its troops and it would look into the death.

MIDDLE EAST: Egyptian TV channels broadcasting in exile from Istanbul have been told to stop attacking the Abdel Fattah el-Sissi government.

Ayman Nour, an exiled Egyptian opposition figure and head of the Muslim Brotherhood-linked al-Sharq television station, said Turkish authorities had begun a “dialogue” about “changing the rhetoric.”

President Sissi seized power in 2014 from Muslim Brotherhood member Mohammed Morsi, and has conducted purges that have seen hundreds hanged and thousands jailed for links to the organisation.

UNITED STATES: UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said today that the imminent trial of George Floyd’s killer Derek Chauvin was “a crucial, defining opportunity for justice” that had been denied to thousands of black US families.

“So many cases involving deaths of people of African descent never make it to court, and the pain of so many families goes unacknowledged or even denied,” she said, calling for “transformative change … to dismantle systemic racism.”

FAR EAST: Malaysia and North Korea have expelled each others’ diplomats over an extradition row.

North Korean Mun Chol Myong, who has lived in Malaysia for a decade, was extradited to the US on Wednesday to face charges of violating UN sanctions on North Korea by importing prohibited goods via Singapore.

Pyongyang said the “hostile act” was down to US pressure and ordered Malaysian diplomats to leave, prompting Kuala Lumpur to do the same.