Your back and arms hurt. The air is heavy with humidity, worsened by an incessant sun. You've been digging through the red, rocky terrain for hours. You and the thousands of other fellow Sudanese miners on site only have one goal: strike gold.
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DR CONGO
A former president (Kabila) has announced he’s starting a new rebel group that’ll fold in the Rwanda-backed M23 controlling chunks of the Congo’s east. (The Africa Report $)
FRANCE
Unknown hackers have remotely compromised industrial refrigeration systems across hundreds of French supermarkets, forcing cooling units into continuous defrost cycles and spiking temps up to 50°C (122°F). (Le Monde)
NORTH KOREA
Local dictator Kim Jong Un has used his country’s sleek new national defence museum to unveil an untested new ballistic missile theoretically capable of reaching the US. (Japan Times)
MAURITIUS
Schools will remain closed today (Tuesday) and office workers will dial in remotely after protests turned violent overnight, even burning down a police station. What started out against water shortages and the cost of living quickly escalated after police shot a young woman. (Bloomberg $)
CHINA
A city in China’s Heilongjiang border province has issued a plague alert for travellers coming from Russia’s Far East, stepping up health checks and border monitoring in response to Russia’s possible Siberia lab leak. (Caixin Global $)
SOUTH KOREA
Asian equity markets have taken a beating today (Tuesday), led by a massive tech selloff in Seoul where the KOSPI plunged 6% and (again) triggered its circuit breakers. (Korea Times)
SAUDI ARABIA
Israel’s Netanyahu has reportedly asked the Saudi crown prince (MBS) for approval to help out against Yemen’s Houthis, though the Saudis (who don’t recognise Israel) have reportedly declined, to avoid further complicating regional diplomacy. (AA)
ARGENTINA
Authorities have temporarily closed access to the famed Iguazu Falls after El Niño-fuelled rains sextupled the river’s flow. (Guardian)
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