Tanzania’s opposition party, Chadema, claims around 700 people have died in election protests, alleging widespread fraud. The government has imposed an internet blackout and curfew amid violent clashes between demonstrators and security forces. The UN has urged restraint and condemned the use of force.

The slogans were scrawled on the walls of four Aligarh temples by five Hindu men to implicate their Muslim neighbours

President Xi Jinping on Friday invited Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to China, in the first formal talks between the nations’ leaders since 2017, before also holding first discussions with Japan’s new premier.