Gunmen killed two rangers in Congo's Virunga National Park on Sunday, the Congo Institute for Nature Conservation (ICCN) said in a statement, the second attack this month in the country's restive east.
Almost no kidnappings were recorded in the last month and there were 43 gang-linked murders, down from 146 in the first three weeks of April, a human-rights group said.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he was willing to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try and resolve the issue of Japanese nationals abducted in the 1960s and 1970s, media reported.
One of Hong Kong's biggest democratic parties said it would disband after a vote by its party members, dealing another blow to the city's already beleaguered democratic opposition.
London police said on Saturday that a man arrested after a car collision into the gates of Downing Street, the site of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's office, had been separately charged with making indecent images of children.