INDIA: One person has died and tens of thousands of people have taken shelter in government-run relief camps as heavy monsoon rains batter villages in the north-eastern state of Assam, a government relief agency confirmed today.

Nearly 14,000 people are living in 83 relief camps run by Assam’s government in 20 of the state’s 31 districts. Around 500,000 people have been hit by the monsoon floods in Assam.

ISRAEL: The Shin Bet security agency said today that it had detained three Israeli settlers on suspicion of involvement in mass rampages through Palestinian towns in the occupied West Bank this week following the killing of four Israelis.

While human rights groups welcomed the arrests, the small number of suspects in relation to the scale of the attacks has revived criticism of wider impunity for Israeli settlers. 

CYPRUS: A court ordered today that two Syrian men remain in police custody for seven days on suspicion of people smuggling after authorities rescued a total 45 Syrian migrants from two rickety vessels off the southern coast.

One vessel was a wooden boat “in bad shape” and the other was an inflatable craft from which passengers had signalled that they were in distress.

FRANCE: Participants at a Paris summit on finance and climate climate stopped short of a deal to create a tax on greenhouse gas emissions produced by international shipping.

The two-day gathering of world leaders and finance bosses, aimed at tackling climate change and poverty, ended today without a major announcement. 

French President Emmanuel Macron, who hosted the summit, said that reforms of international financial system would be reassessed within the next two years.