UNITED STATES: A jury in a civil case against former president Donald Trump has found that he sexually abused magazine columnist E Jean Carroll in a New York department store in the 1990s.

But Mr Trump was found not liable for raping Ms Carroll.

The jury also found on Tuesday that Mr Trump was liable for defamation for calling her accusations “a hoax and a lie.”

The Manhattan jury ordered Mr Trump to pay her about £4 million in damages.

TUNISIA: The death toll from a gun attack near Africa’s oldest synagogue, on the Tunisian island of Djerba, rose to five today.

A guard shot dead his partner on Tuesday, then opened fire on visitors and security forces near the synagogue, before being killed himself.

The motive for the killings was not clear.

MYANMAR: The Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) said today that it was “deeply concerned” at the violence in military-ruled Myanmar as Indonesian President Joko Widodo called for “unity” among the bloc’s 10 members, which are divided over how to handle the crisis.

Myanmar military chief Min Aung Hlaing has ignored a five-point plan agreed at a special Asean summit two years ago.

UNITED STATES: Prosecutors are seeking at least 25 years in prison for a soldier who fatally shot an armed man during a Black Lives Matter protest in Texas, saying that his history of racist and provocative texts and social media posts show that he is likely to commit similar violence again.

Sergeant Daniel Perry is set to be sentenced today after being convicted in April of murdering Garrett Foster during the  protest in Austin in July 2020.