WORLD HIGHLIGHTS

►Saudi Arabia

DUBAI Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan has said that talks with Iran had been "cordial", describing the negotiations as "exploratory", The Financial Times reported yesterday.

►Mexico

MEXICO CITY Mexico is slated to impose visa requirements for Brazilian visitors amid efforts to slow a wave of Us-bound migration from Brazil, according to a document from Mexico's interior ministry.

Mexico City's attorney general said Thursday she will press charges of homicide, personal injury and property damage against people and companies linked to the collapse of a section of a metro line in the capital that left 26 dead in May.

►DR Congo

GEMENA Three days of fighting in a land dispute in northwestern DR Congo left 13 people dead, many injured and around 50 homes burned to the ground, officials said Thursday.

►Ecuador

QUITO Four inmates were found dead Thursday at the same Ecuadorian prison where 119 prisoners were killed in the country's deadliest inmate riot two weeks ago, the prison authority said.

►Israel

JERUSALEM Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian who had been throwing incendiary bottles in the West Bank on Thursday night, Israel's army said.

►Latvia

RIGA Latvian President Egils Levits has contracted COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated, his chief of staff said Thursday, as the Baltic country reported a new record for daily coronavirus cases.

►US

NEW YORK A US federal grand jury on Thursday charged a former Boeing chief test pilot with misleading aviation regulators during the certification process for the 737 MAX, which was involved in two fatal crashes.

WASHINGTON Former president Bill Clinton has been hospitalised with a non-covid-related infection, a spokesman said Thursday evening. Clinton's doctors said it was a blood infection. AGENCIES