Nigeria
Huge disaster in Nigeria with 140 people still missing after a passenger boat split apart and sank in the Niger River. Boat accidents such as this are common in Nigeria.
More from Al Jazeera here.
Ireland
A stunning move in Ireland as its parliament passed a motion condemning Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories as “de-facto annexation”. It makes Ireland the first country in the world to define the settlements as annexation.
More from RTE here.
Belarus
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has hit out at Western nations who imposed sanctions on the country after it diverted a passenger plane flying through its airspace to arrest dissident journalist Roman Protasevich, 26. Lukashenko stuck to the government’s story that there was a bomb threat and denied that Minsk had sent a fighter jet to escort the plane to the ground. Lukashenko, often referred to as Europe’s last dictator, has been in power for 27 years.
More from BBC here.