Brazil’s former President Michel Temer was arrested on Thursday in an investigation of alleged graft.

The U.S. Air Force has sent six B-52 long-range bombers to the United Kingdom for a series of training activities over Europe. Russia regretts the decision.

Sudan considers oil and gas exploration blocks offered by Egypt in the Red Sea’s Halayeb area as a direct intrusion into Sudanese territory, Saad al-Deen Hussein al-Bishri, minister of state at Khartoum’s oil ministry, was cited as saying.

Italian bank group Intesa is considering to invest in the controversial German-Russian pipeline project.

Frederick Kempe, President and CEO of the Atlantic Council, considers a common position of the EU and the U.S. on China to be of the essence. But such a position does not appear to exist at the moment, Kempe said in an interview with the World News Monitor (WNM).

France’s prime minister said Paris’s police chief had been sacked and that the government would shut down “yellow vest” protests if violent groups were identified among the ranks of “yellow vest” protesters.

A new line of the German high-speed ICE train is being planned between the Ruhr area and Berlin with top speeds of 300 km an hour, the German Federal Ministry of Transport announced on Monday.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has asked the country’s cabinet members to resign so that the government can be reorganized, Executive Vice President Delcy Rodriguez wrote on Twitter.

The Italian central bank has blocked Ing bank’s operations in Italy. The bank does not comply with the anti-money laundering regulations in Italy, the Bank of Italy announced.

The French government has come under pressure after the protests of the yellow vests turned violent on Sunday.