PAKISTAN: Pakistani police on Monday arrested scores more supporters of former prime minister Imran Khan for attacking officers over the weekend outside an Islamabad court where the ousted premier was to appear on graft charges, officials said.

Meanwhile, a rocket hit a vehicle carrying Mr Khan’s supporters in the country’s north-west, killing 10 people.

The arrests were the latest amid legal cases facing Khan, now opposition leader, since his ousting in a no-confidence vote in parliament last April. 

VENEZUELA: The man responsible for running Venezuela’s oil industry, Tareck el-Aissami, quit on Monday amid investigations into alleged corruption among officials in various parts of the government.

Mr Aissami has been considered a key figure in the government’s efforts to evade brutal international economic sanctions but President Nicolas Maduro has vowed a clampdown on corruption.

SPAIN: Spain’s left-wing coalition government faced a no-confidence vote brought by the nation’s far-right Vox party as lawmakers on Tuesday debated the motion, which has little chance of succeeding.

The vote was held in the 348-member lower chamber on Wednesday after the Star went to print.

AMAZON: Tech giant Amazon plans to eliminate 9,000 more jobs in the next few weeks, the firm’s chief executive Andy Jassy said in a memo to staff on Monday.

The job cuts would mark the second largest round of layoffs in the company’s history, adding to the 18,000 employees the tech giant said it would lay off in January. 

The company’s workforce doubled during the pandemic amid a hiring surge across most of the tech sector.