Here are Press TV's latest top stories at 16:00 GMT, July 31, 2023

Niger is the latest African nation to have faced a coup d'état following the rise of the country’'s military top brass to power last week.

Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum says democracy will be restored following a coup attempt against him.

Peruvian political crisis was assumed by the oligarchy, as is customary, which embraces genocide, coup, and massacre.

There is concern that US plans to build a military base in Somaliland with the covert objective of balkanizing Somalia, a very strategic horn of Africa nation.

Recently leaked documents from the Pentagon in the US state that the US obtained this information via signals intelligence, meaning that the electronic communications of Mossad leaders are being monitored by the US.

The Venezuelan president scolds Washington over its meddling in the country, marking the anniversary of a US-backed coup attempt against late president Hugo Chavez.

British intelligence agencies – particularly the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS – usually known as MI6) – have a long record of foreign interventions and subversion of sovereign nations in the pursuit of the interest of British imperialism and latterly also the interests of the US and its allies – including Israel.

In Peru, protests sparked by the removal of President Pedro Castillo continue after nearly three months

Myanmar’s military government has decided to allow citizens who are "loyal to the state" to be licensed to carry several types of guns and ammunition.