SERBIA: Students camped out overnight and into today in the northern city of Novi Sad as part of a growing anti-corruption movement.

Dozens of farmers parked their tractors by the Freedom Bridge, saying they wanted to guard the students from potential attacks by sympathisers of President Aleksandar Vucic, while local residents brought the protesters tea, coffee and food.

The movement was triggered by the November 1 collapse of a concrete canopy at the city's central railway station, which killed 15 people and has been blamed on corruption affecting the building’s reconstruction.

VENEZUELA: SIX US citizens detained in recent months amid allegations of Washington-backed plots to destabilise the country were freed at the weekend.

Their release followed a meeting between President Nicolas Maduro and Trump administration envoy Richard Grenell, who has been tasked with urging Mr Maduro to take back migrants who have committed crimes in the United States.

SOMALIA: The US military conducted air strikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia at the weekend, the first such attack of President Donald Trump’s second term.

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said the strikes were directed by Mr Trump and co-ordinated with Somalia’s government. An initial assessment by the Pentagon indicated that “multiple” operatives had been killed.

ITALY: A coastguard ship took 43 migrants from asylum-processing centres in Albania to the southern Italian port of Bari on Saturday following a court decision in Rome.

It represented the third failed attempt by Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government to process migrants in the non-EU country.