LIBYA: Prosecutors in Libya announced today that there had been two further arrests in relation to its investigation into the collapse of two dams that left thousands dead or missing.

The prosecutors’ office said that the director of the town’s reconstruction projects office and the head of the technical committee in charge of implementing the plan were now in custody.

NORWAY: Authorities announced today they will start barring Russian-registered passenger cars from entering the Scandinavian country starting next week, mirroring sanctions imposed by the European Union against Moscow over its war on Ukraine.

Norway, which is a member of Nato but not of the EU, has a 123-mile-long border in the Arctic with Russia. 

SPAIN: The leader of Spain’s conservatives failed for the second time today to get parliamentary support for his bid to become prime minister following his party’s narrow victory in July’s national election. 

His defeat opened a door for centre-left Socialist Workers’ Party leader Pedro Sanchez, whose party placed second in the election, to possibly return to power if he can persuade smaller parties to back him.

GERMANY: Christian Democratic Union leader Friedrich Merz came under fire today for saying migrants “sit at the doctor’s and get their teeth redone, and the German citizens next door can’t get appointments.”

Health Minister Karl Lauterbach told the daily German newspaper Bild that Mr Merz was stirring up hatred against migrants “by apparently deliberately creating the false impression that they steal expensive care from Germans.”