Congo’s Ebola outbreak has killed more than 5,000 people and produced over 10,300 confirmed cases. Nigeria has isolated two people with suspected infections while laboratory testing continues.
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France estimated that 320,000 people joined Saturday’s protests as youth-led demonstrations over education and living costs continued across Europe. German organizers reported more than 100,000 protesters nationwide, while clashes broke out near the end of the Paris march and in several German cities.
London police arrested 139 people at a protest against the ban on Palestine Action ahead of a Supreme Court appeal. A separate vigil in Edinburgh ended with no reported arrests.
Iran’s supreme leader warned that renewed attacks would bring retaliation without geographic limits, while mediators pursued a deal. Iranian claims of tanker explosions in the Strait of Hormuz contrasted with U.S. assurances that shipping lanes remain open.
Four planes carrying evacuees from Russian-occupied Oleshky landed in Belarus under a temporary humanitarian ceasefire. Ukrainian officials expected the residents to cross into Ukraine later Saturday.
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham says he is open to a formal apology for the transatlantic slave trade but rejects financial reparations. Caribbean leaders and reparations advocates welcomed the prospect of dialogue while pressing for further action.
Stephen Hubbard, freed after more than four years in a Russian prison, told reporters at the White House he believed he was leaving only when guards gave him new clothes and led him toward the exit. Trump said the United States did not release anyone in return.
Police guarded Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal as protesters opposed the suspension of its president. The confrontation deepens a dispute between Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government and the PiS-aligned leadership of the court.