GERMANY: Chancellor Olaf Scholz strongly condemned a firebomb assault on a synagogue in Berlin today, saying: “We will never accept when attacks are carried out against Jewish institutions.”

Assailants threw two Molotov cocktails early this morning at the synagogue in the centre of the German capital, police said.

LIBERIA: The Liberian election was heading for a run-off today as neither President George Weah or his main rival Joseph Boakai were able to secure more than 50 per cent of the votes to win outright in the first ballot.

Mr Weah won about 43.8 per cent of the vote with Mr Boakai securing about 43.5 per cent.

UNITED STATES: A former detective in Missouri convicted in the death a black man in 2019 was jailed on Tuesday after losing an appeal of his conviction despite unusual support from the state’s Republican attorney general.

Eric J DeValkenaere, who is white, was found guilty in 2021 of second-degree manslaughter and armed criminal action in the death of Cameron Lamb. 

Mr Lamb was parking a pickup truck in his Kansas City backyard when the officer shot him.

MEXICO: Bruno Placido, a well-known leader of a civilian “self-defence” group, was shot to death on Tuesday in southern Mexico, eliminating one of the last true chiefs of the country’s armed vigilante movements that sprang up a decade ago.

Mr Placido was slain in the Guerrero state capital Chilpancingo, said a state official, who was not authorised to be quoted by name. 

No suspects or motive was immediately announced.