DETENTION: Russian authorities said on Sunday that the man suspected of shooting a deputy chief of Russia’s military intelligence agency in Moscow was detained in Dubai and handed over to Russia, and they alleged he was working on behalf of Ukraine.

Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev was hospitalised after being shot several times on Friday by a gunman in north-western Moscow, investigative committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said.

EXIT POLLS: Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s governing party is almost certain to win a single-party majority in parliamentary elections on Sunday, according to exit polls.

NHK television says Ms Takaichi’s governing coalition led by her Liberal Democratic Party could also win more than two-thirds of the 465-seat lower house, the more powerful of the country’s two-chamber parliament.

NHK predicts the LDP alone secured 244 seats, surpassing a majority at 233.

EPSTEIN LINK: France’s former culture minister Jack Lang resigned as head of a Paris cultural centre on Sunday over alleged past financial links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that prompted a tax investigation.

He is the highest-profile figure in France impacted by the release of the Epstein files on January 30 by the United States Department of Justice.

UNITED STATES: Dozens of protesters were arrested on Saturday outside a federal building in Minneapolis, breaking up a protest marking the one-month anniversary of the death of Renee Good at the hands of an immigration officer.

Ms Good was killed on January 7 as she was driving away from immigration officers in Minneapolis.

Her killing and that of Alex Pretti weeks later have sparked nationwide outrage over President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.