BURUNDI: Chaos and violence seized the streets of Burundi's capital after an army chief announced he had ousted president Pierre Nkurunziza. PERU: Protests against the Tia Maria mining project in southern Peru are intensifying on the second day of a three-day regional strike. MEXICO: Farm workers in the northwestern Mexican state of Baja California are finally due to meet government officials to discuss their demands for better wages and working conditions. IRAQ: Iraq's defence ministry says that the second most senior member of the Islamic State group, Abu Alaa al-Afri, has been killed in a us-led coalition airstrike in the north of Iraq. PAKISTAN: Police reported that at least 43 members of the country's Shiite Ismaili minority were killed and 13 others wounded after 6 gunmen opened fire on their bus.
