MOZAMBIQUE: Children wait with their mothers for an oral cholera vaccination in Beira at a camp for displaced people. 

Over 100,000 survivors of Cyclone Idai are still living in camps across the country, many of which lack clean water or sanitation. 

The World Health Organisation has warned of a “second disaster” if water-borne diseases, such as cholera and malaria, spread. 

PHILIPPINES: An customs officer holds up one of the 757 live tarantulas they found at a mail exchange centre near Manila’s international airport on Monday.

The endangered wildlife species were found concealed in gift-wrapped oatmeal and cookie boxes and were shipped from Poland. 

BRUNEI: Harsh laws came into effect today which will allow the government to stone people to death who have sex with someone of the same sex. 

Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, pictured here in 2013, instituted the law in 2014 in an apparent move to bolster the influence of Islam in the oil-rich, Western-backed absolute monarchy.

“Living in Brunei, we already knew that our sexual identity is taboo and should not be expressed. We already felt belittled before the law came to place,” said a 23-year-old member of the LGBTQ community who did not want to be identified.

“Now with it, we feel even smaller and the ones who could potentially oppress us have more opportunity to harass us to say and do what they want,” he said.

SOUTH KOREA: The P-Pioneer, a South Korean fishing vessel, is being detained at a port in the country’s second city Busan.

The ship is being held on suspicion it provided diesel to the North, breaking the UN security council’s sanctions. 

THAILAND: Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, leader of the centre-left Future Forward Party, has been accused of sedition and aiding criminals by the country’s dictatorial military junta. 

The junta-appointed Election Commission’s results revealed Juangroongruangkit’s party came third in the recent elections.

“We are prepared mentally,” Juangroongruangkit said while visiting a Bangkok neighbourhood to thank those who voted for him. 

“There's nothing to worry about. We believe in our innocence. We believe these cases are politically motivated.”

MALAYSIA: Former Prime Minister Najib Razak (centre) gets into a car after his court appearance at the Kuala Lumpur High Court today. 

Razak appeared in court for the start of his corruption trial, exactly 10 years after he was first elected to office only to suffer a spectacular defeat last year on allegations he trousered millions of dollars from a state investment fund.

CAMBODIA: A man hands out balloons during the opening ceremony for the reconstructed Cambodia-Japan friendship bridge, in Phnom Penh, today.

UNITED STATES: A man gives a thumbs down, as others applaud after the Pittsburgh City Council voted 6-3 to pass gun-control legislation, last night. 

The Bill, introduced in the wake of the synagogue massacre last October, places restrictions on military-style assault weapons like the AR-15 rifle that authorities say was used in the attack that killed 11 and wounded seven.

BELGIUM: European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker looks at his papers before addressing European Parliament members at the European Parliament in Brussels, today.

PALESTINE: Fishermen arrive on their boats to the Gaza seaport, after a night fishing trip today. 

Israel, which has blockaded the Gaza strip since 2007 when the Islamist Hamas took power, allowed Gazans to fish their own waters up to 15 nautical miles, up from the previous limit of nine nautical miles in imposed after Hamas militants launched a rocket towards Tel Aviv on March 25.

RUSSIA: President Vladimir Putin shows interim Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev his chair during a meeting in the Kremlin today. 

The trip to Moscow is Tokayev’s first foreign visit since taking office last month after the surprise resignation of Nursultan Nazarbayev, who had ruled the country since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Last month, the Kazakh government decided to change the name of its capital city from Astana to Nur-Sultan to honour its previous authoritarian leader, who once hired Tony Blair as his spin doctor.