Tuesday 10th February 2026. Venezuela Guanipa. Nicaragua Cubans. Morocco storms. Nigeria priest abducted. Senegal paedophile gang...

Good morning. This is Sen7, World News in 7 minutes. I'm Niall Moore. Today is Tuesday 10 February 2026. Today we're starting in the Americas. In Venezuela, the Attorney General, Tarek William Sab, has ordered the arrest of opposition politician Juan Pablo Guanipa just 12 hours after he was released from prison. Guanipa, who is an ally of Venezuela's opposition leader, Maria Corina Mercado, was released on Sunday alongside several other political prisoners. In his statement, Sab, the Attorney General, did not say why he had ordered Guanipa to be re-arrested, saying only that Guanipa had not "complied with the conditions of his release." Nicaragua has banned Cubans from entering the country without a visa. Until now, Cuban migrants would often fly to Nicaragua, where they would meet with smugglers who would help them get into the United States. But, now that Cubans cannot enter Nicaragua without a visa, it will be much more difficult for them to use this route to get to the US. Africa In Morocco, flash floods caused by Storm Marta have killed at least four people in the north of the country and forced more than 100,000 people to evacuate. Storm Marta arrived just days after another large storm, Leonardo also caused flooding and landslides and forced over 150,000 people to evacuate. However, despite the damage Moroccan officials have also said the recent weather has benefited the country by topping up its drinking water reservoirs and helping farmers after more than six years of drought. In Nigeria, in the northern state of Kaduna, gunmen have killed three people and abducted eleven others, including a Catholic priest. The attack targeted the home of Nathaniel Asuayye, the parish priest of the Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Kaku. According to a police spokesperson, the three people who died were two soldiers and a police officer who attempted to stop the attackers. In a statement on Sunday, the Global Rights Group, Amnesty International, said that Nigeria's security crisis was "increasingly getting out of hand" and accused the government of "gross incompetence" for failing to protect rural communities in Nigeria's northern states. In Senegal, police have arrested 14 people who may say were part of a transnational pedophile gang that has been operating since 2017. The group are alleged to have been forcing boys to have unprotected sex with men who were mostly HIV positive and filming it. Four of the men who were arrested are said to have been acting "in exchange for money transfers from a man in France." Asia and Oceania. In Hong Kong, the media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Lai was convicted under the strict national security laws imposed by China on Hong Kong in 2020, following widespread pro-democracy protests. Lai, who once owned the Apple Daily newspaper, which was often very critical of China's Communist Party, was convicted of two counts of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and one count of publishing seditious materials. Lai denied all the charges, saying in court that he was a "political prisoner" being persecuted by Chinese authorities in Beijing. The United Kingdom, United Nations and European Union have all released statements condemning the imprisonment of Jimmy Lai and calling for his release. In New Zealand, the white supremacist terrorist behind the so-called "Christ Church" shootings in 2019 is trying to change his guilty plea. Brenton Tarant killed 51 people at two different mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch. At the time, he pled guilty to the murders and was sentenced to life in prison. However, he is now claiming that he was not in a good state of mind when he pled guilty because of the "touric and inhumane conditions he experienced in prison." Europe. In the United Kingdom, the head of the Labour Party in Scotland, Anasawa, has said that Labour Party leader and Prime Minister Keir Starmer should resign. Prime Minister Starmer has been criticised for appointing Lord Peter Mandelson as Britain's ambassador to the United States because it has become clear from the latest Epstein files that not only was Mandelson very close friends with Jeffrey Epstein, he had previously given Epstein sensitive government information. On Sunday, Prime Minister Starmer's chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, took responsibility for advising Starmer to appoint Mandelson as US ambassador and resigned. Then, yesterday, Starmer's director of communications, Tim Allen, also resigned, though did not explain why. Finally, also yesterday, the leader of Starmer's own Labour Party in Scotland, Anasawa, called a press conference in which he said that Starmer should resign as Prime Minister because if he remained, Labour in Scotland would be too unpopular and would lose power to the Scottish National Party. This isn't easy and it's not without pain as I have a genuine friendship with Keir Starmer, but my first priority and my first loyalty is to my country, Scotland. And I am not willing to sacrifice Scotland's NHS, our schools, our communities, our town cities, villages and islands to a third decade of an SNP government. That's why the distraction needs to end and the leadership in Downing Street has to change. And in Italy, officials at the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympic Games are investigating a series of broken Olympic medals. Several winning athletes have complained that their medals broke soon after they received them, including Eber Anderson, a Swedish skier who said that her medal "fell in the snow" and "broken too" and other athletes whose medals separated from their ribbons. That's your world news in seven minutes. If you enjoy this podcast, please tell your friends to find simple English news daily in their podcast app. I'm Nile Moore. Tomorrow you will be with Stephen Devanchancy. Have a great day!