AFRICA• A ceasefire holds in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, after days of heavy fighting between rival forces left more than 270 people dead.• Uganda’s opposition leader Kizza Besigye is granted bail after being in custody for two months on treason charges. His party’s defiance campaign has included protests.• Zambia’s electoral commission halts campaigning in the capital for 10 days after the death of an opposition supporter.• A Nigerian DJ breaks the world record for the longest ever DJ set. DJ Obi completed a 240-hour marathon at a Lagos cafe.• An opposition presidential candidate in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Moise Katumbi, says he was poisoned as part of a government plot to kill him.ABROAD• A tribunal in The Hague rebukes China and rules in favour of the Philippines, saying China’s claim to sovereignty in the South China Sea had no legal basis.• Venezuela’s government seizes a Kimberly-Clark plant that halted operations in the worsening economic situation.• Japanese prime...
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