GERMANY: The far right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party sued the domestic intelligence service today for classifying it as a right-wing extremist organisation, a decision that subjects it to greater surveillance from authorities.

The party known as AfD, which placed second in national elections in February, took action at an administrative court in Cologne, where the intelligence service has its headquarters.

CAMBODIA: A Cambodian court convicted a prominent opposition politician of incitement today and sentenced him to four years in prison.

Rong Chhun, a top adviser to the newly formed Nation Power Party, was found guilty of inciting social unrest related to his political activity for meeting with villagers displaced by government construction projects, including the new Phnom Penh international airport. In addition to the prison term, he was barred from running for office and from voting.

PERU: The bodies of 13 security guards kidnapped from a major Peruvian gold mine just over a week ago were found on Sunday, Peru’s Interior Ministry said.

The gold mine, La Poderosa, said that a search-and-rescue team recovered the staff members’ remains in the mine on Sunday. The company blamed their abduction on informal miners allegedly linked to criminal gangs that ambushed the gold mine on April 26.

Peru’s Interior Ministry gave no further details about the attack or its perpetrators.

IRAN: Tehran unveiled on Sunday the country’s latest solid-fuelled ballistic missile, state TV reported, against a backdrop of threats from the United States over its nuclear programme.

Defence Minister General Aziz Nasirzadeh said the missile has improvements guidance system to easily bypass anti-ballistic defence systems.