French nationals

French nationals have been advised to leave Pakistan due to violent demonstrations after the arrest of the leader of a hardline political party calling for  France's ambassador to be expelled over his government's defence of the right to show cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

France will later this week begin airlifting its nationals from Wuhan, the locked-down Chinese city at the centre of a coronavirus outbreak where an estimated 500 French expatriates live, after reaching agreement for the evacuation with the Chinese authorities, health minister Agnès Buzyn has announced.

Official at the Paris prosecutor's office said the two men, aged 19 and 20, were arrested near Tunisia's southern border with Libya.