MAYOTTE: Authorities on the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte today began demolishing homes in a large slum in a supposed crackdown on “illegal” migration.

France, the colonial ruler, has deployed hundreds of police officers and gendarmes in Mayotte since April in what they describe as a security measure called Operation Wuambushu, or “take back” in the local language.

SOUTH AFRICA: An outbreak of cholera has killed at least 10 people in South Africa’s most populous province of Gauteng, health authorities said today.

At least 95 people have visited hospitals in the last week showing symptoms of cholera in Hammanskraal, an area north of the capital, Pretoria.

Authorities said on Sunday that laboratory tests confirmed at least 19 were cases of cholera.

AUSTRALIA: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said that he was working in the “most effective way possible” to secure the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, but declined an invitation by independent lawmaker Andrew Wilkie to meet the Australian citizen’s wife.

Mr Albanese said that a meeting with Stella Assange wouldn’t help her husband who is in a London prison fighting extradition to the United States.

“A priority for us isn’t doing something that is a demonstration, it’s actually doing something that produces an outcome.”

EUROPEAN UNION: The European Union slapped Meta with a record $1.3 billion (£1.04bn) privacy fine today and ordered it to stop transferring user data across the Atlantic by October, the latest salvo in a decade-long case sparked by United States cyber-snooping fears.

The fine is the biggest since the EU introduced a strict data privacy regime five years ago.