News of the Day From Around the Globe
1 Peace deal: A revised peace deal between the Colombian government and the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, is due to be signed Thursday, according to a statement from government peace negotiators.
Santos and Londono already signed a peace agreement on Sept. 26; however, its implementation was left in a state of uncertainty when Colombian voters rejected it in a referendum on Oct. 2.
Fighting between state security, leftist guerrilla groups and rightist paramilitary is believed to have killed 220,000 Colombians over the years.
2 Life sentence: A white supremacist who shot and stabbed a pro-European British lawmaker while shouting “Britain first” was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for a crime prosecutors called an act of far-right terrorism.
Estonia’s new coalition government has taken office, led by a political party that is particularly popular among the Baltic country’s ethnic Russian minority.
According to their calculations, the number of koala deaths could fall by 8 percent on weekdays and 11 percent on weekends.