A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever, the financial markets columnist.

Rioters ram-raided the home of a Paris suburb mayor, set the car alight and launched fireworks at his wife and young children as they fled during a fifth night of nationwide unrest over Tuesday’s police shooting of a teen of North African descent.

Australian resource and energy exports climbed 9% to a record A$460 billion ($300 billion) in the financial year just ended, but are forecast to slide over the next two years as some energy prices have dropped back to levels last seen before Russia invaded Ukraine.

Two people were killed and 28 others were injured, including an estimated 14 children, in a mass shooting in Baltimore, Maryland, early Sunday morning after a neighbourhood party, police said.

The U.S. House of Representatives asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken for details about an investigation into the security clearance of the U.S. envoy for Iran.

U.S. CIA Director William Burns said that the armed mutiny by mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was a challenge.

Gay Republicans criticized as “homophobic” a video was posted by Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis’ campaign.

Rioting across France appeared to be less intense, as tens of thousands of police had been deployed in cities across the country.

Mexico’s government slammed a tough new state immigration law in Florida.

A truck rammed into several other vehicles and market traders in western Kenya, killing at least 51 people.

Twenty five people died and about eight people were injured after a bus travelling in India’s Maharashtra state caught fire, India’s ANI News Agency reported early on Saturday.

Emmanuel Macron has accused protesters of exploiting the death of a teenager shot by police at point-blank range.