JAMAICA: Police in Jamaica enforced a curfew in a community on the outskirts of the capital, Kingston, on Saturday after gunmen fired on people boarding a public minibus, wounding seven, including three children.

The Jamaica Constabulary Force gave no information on the conditions of the wounded from the brazen attack, which occurred at midafternoon Friday in Seaview Gardens, a poor area of Kingston.

Authorities did not comment on a possible motive for the attack. 

ISRAEL: Tens of thousands of protesters flocked to Tel Aviv and cities across Israel on Saturday to vent their opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government’s divisive plan to overhaul the country’s judicial system.

The mass protests have been staged weekly since the start of the year. 

MALI: At least 10 people were killed and dozens injured on Saturday in an attack on a complex near a military base in central Mali, said the army.

A car bomb exploded near the camp in Sevare in the Mopti region, Colonel Souleymane Dembele, spokesman for the Malian army, told reporters.

No-one claimed responsibility for the attack, but jihadis are known to operate in the area. 

MYANMAR: A top election official in Myanmar, Sai Kyaw Thu, was fatally shot in his car in Yangon, the country’s commercial capital, in the latest attack attributed to militants opposed to military rule.

Mr Thu, deputy director-general of the military-appointed Union Election Commission, was shot multiple times on Saturday, according to the military’s information office, media reports and a statement of responsibility from an urban guerilla group called For The Yangon.