EBOLA: World Health Organisation director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said today that the risk of the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda spreading further is high at the national and regional levels but low at the global level.

He said that, so far, 51 cases have been confirmed in Congo, in the northern provinces of Ituri and North Kivu, “although we know the scale of the epidemic is much larger.”

LITHUANIA: Residents of the capital Vilnius were told to take shelter and the president and prime minister were taken to safe locations today following an alarm over drone activity near the border with Belarus.

An emergency announcement told people in the Vilnius region to “immediately head to a shelter or a safe place.”

CHINA: Torrential rain and floods hit parts of the country this week, killing at least 12 people and forcing tens of thousands to evacuate.

Broadcaster CCTV reported today that there have been five deaths and that 11 people are missing in Shimen county of Hunan province in central China after rain battered the region. 

By Tuesday evening, more than 19,000 had been relocated, official news agency Xinhua reported.

OCCUPIED WEST BANK: Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has ordered the eviction of a Palestinian village that has long been a target of the Israeli authorities, saying the measure is a response to reports that he may be a target of international war crimes prosecutors.

It was not clear whether the International Criminal Court is considering an arrest warrant for Mr Smotrich.