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BBC news with Jerry Smit.

Following days of rumors¹, Uzbekistan has announced the death of its president, Islam Karimov aged² at 78. He was previously³ said to be critically ill. The funeral will take place on Saturday in his home city of Samarkand.

A bomb explosion in the southern Philippines appears to have killed at least 12 people and injured many more. The blast took place in a busy night market in Davao, the hometown of president Rodrigo Duterte.

Hungarian police have recruited 3,000 officers that it described as border hunters to be deployed⁴ along to the southern frontier with Serbia. They will help bolster⁵ the 10,000-strong force already guarding the razor-wire fence to keep out migrants.

A delegation⁶ from the United Nations Security Council is in South Sudan to discuss a UN resolution to send 4,000 extra peacekeepers to the country. The South Sudanese government has described the decision as neo-colonialist.

Opposition⁷ leaders in Gabon who have been tried for 3 days in their party headquarters, have been allowed to leave. Troops surrounded the building after opponents of president Ali Bongo set the national assembly on fire.

An MP in Kenya has asked parliament to pass a law recognizing a third gender⁸. Isaac Mwaura said this would help end discrimination against intersex people, who were born with both male and female characteristics.

A serving British marine⁹ has been charged with terrorism offenses¹⁰ following a police investigation¹¹ into dissident Irish republican activity in Northern Ireland. Ciarán Maxwell has been remanded in custody¹² until his next court appearance on Monday.

A Church of England bishop¹³ has become the first to publicly declare that he is gay and in a relationship, although celibate¹⁴. The revelation by the Right Reverend Nicholas Chamberlain, is likely to be embraced by campaigners for equality and alarm conservatives.