#BREAKING Gunfire heard at Indonesian national police headquarters in Jakarta: media
#UPDATE Indonesian authorities shot a person who entered the national police headquarters in the capital #Jakarta on Wednesday, local media said, describing it as an "alleged terror attack" u.afp.com/UgM6
#BREAKING Woman shot dead at Indonesia police headquarters was IS sympathiser: official
#UPDATE An armed woman shot dead at Indonesia's national police headquarters in Jakarta on Wednesday was an Islamic State sympathiser, authorities said, citing social media posts she made shortly before the fatal gun battle u.afp.com/UgM6
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#BREAKING Italian naval officer arrested on Russia spying charges: police
#UPDATE The Italian navy captain was arrested in Rome on spying charges after allegedly passing "confidential documents" to a Russian military official in exchange for money, police say
#UPDATE The Italian, a middle-ranking officer serving as a frigate captain, was caught red-handed after a "clandestine meeting" with the Russian late Tuesday in Rome, according to a police statement
#AFPgraphics comparing the deforestation footprint of G20 and selected countries
#BREAKING Rainforest destruction up 12% in 2020: Global Forest Watch
#UPDATE An area of pristine rainforest the size of the Netherlands was burned or hacked down in 2020, as the destruction of tropical forests accelerated despite a global economic slowdown, research shows.
The worst losses were in Brazil, Global Forest Watch reports
#BREAKING US judge sentences Honduran president's brother to life in jail for drug trafficking
#UPDATE Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez's brother was sentenced to life in prison by a New York judge Tuesday for large-scale drug trafficking after a trial that implicated the leader of the Central American country u.afp.com/UgpZ
#BREAKING Honduran president calls brother's US drug trafficking sentence 'outrageous'
#BREAKING WHO chief urges deeper probe into lab leak Covid origins theory
#BREAKING WHO chief criticises lack of data access from China for Covid origins investigators
#UPDATE World Health Organization (#WHO) chief #Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday urged a deeper investigation into whether the #coronavirus outbreak originated with a lab leak, as world leaders pushed for a treaty to prepare for future pandemics u.afp.com/UgTi