FRANCE: Interior minister Gerald Darmanin announced multiple nationwide anti-drug crackdowns today in a law-and-order move ahead of European elections.

Mr Darmanin said that police units conducted raids and made several arrests in the northern city of Lille as well as Villeneuve-d’Ascq and Roubaix. 

SOUTH AFRICA: Prosecutors said today they intended to charge the parliament speaker with corruption, alleging she took $135,000 (around £106,000) and a wig in bribes over a three-year period while she was defence minister.