After a plane arrived from Egypt bearing cash, weapons and what looked like gold bars, Zambia arrested 12 people. Egyptian reporters covering the case were briefly detained.

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa will consider at their summit this week whether to admit more countries to their bloc. China wants to expand it, to challenge the West, but the members’ conflicting interests may get in the way.

A Human Rights Watch report says the guards regularly fire on African migrants trying to enter the kingdom from Yemen and have killed hundreds in a 15-month period.