LIBYA: The chief prosecutor said on Saturday he would establish an inquiry to investigate a meeting last month between the foreign minister of one of the country’s rival governments and Israel’s chief diplomat.

Najla Mangoush of the Tripoli-based government and Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen met in Rome in the first-ever meeting of such high-level diplomats — but news of the August 22 meeting has caused uproar in Libya.

GERMANY: The governor of the state of Bavaria said today that he will let his deputy stay in office despite a furore that started with allegations he made an anti-semitic flyer as a high-school student 35 years ago.

Markus Soeder, a leading figure in Germany’s centre-right opposition, said he had concluded that it would be disproportionate to fire Hubert Aiwanger, his deputy and coalition partner.

SOMALIA: The government said today that the army had killed at least 30 al-Shabab militants in a fierce gun battle in the south of the country.

A spokesperson for the Somali Ministry of Information confirmed the operation in the Qoryoley district, after the jihadist group had attempted to launch an attack there.

ARGENTINA: Sergio Massa, the country’s current economy minister and a candidate to be Argentina’s next president has slammed proposals by right-wing opponents Javier Milei and Patricia Bullrich to “dollarise” the economy.

He said today: “Some propose dollarisation without further ado: putting the United States flag on the door of the Central Bank.”