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Claudia Sheinbaum gives a speech after being named the Morena party's presidential candidate. Fernando Llano / AP

   

Mexico looks set to get its first female president 

 

For the first time ever, two female candidates are pitted against each other when Mexico elects a new president to succeed Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Yesterday, Mexico City's former mayor Claudia Sheinbaum was elected presidential candidate for the ruling left-wing party Movimiento Regeneración Nacional, Morena for short. 

 

The opposition coalition has put forward Senator Xóchitl Gálvez as its candidate.  

 

Sheinbaum is described as almost blindly loyal to López Obrador and is believed to continue working according to his political agenda. The current president's pet peeves include, among other things, strengthened state control over natural resources and strengthened social insurance programs, writes Reuters.  

 

The opponent Xóchitl Gálvez, for his part, is described as a politician more to the right on the political scale, with a background in busines 

 

 

Sanna Marin, September 1. Markku Ulander / AP 

  

Sanna Marin gets a new job at the Tony Blair Institute 

 

Finland's former Prime Minister Sanna Marin becomes a new special adviser at the Tony Blair Institute. This is reported by Hufvudstadsbladet.  

 

At the same time, she requests her resignation from the Finnish Riksdag.  

 

Marin resigned as Finland's prime minister in June after her party, the Social Democrats, failed to secure a large enough mandate in the parliamentary elections.  

 

The institute is based in London but operates in 30 countries and acts as an adviser to governments and on policy issues.

Wandworth Prison, Daniel Abed Khalife. Yui Mok/PA, Metropolitan Police via AP  

Terrorist threats in Europe  

Rymling is suspected of having received help "from the inside"  

Terror suspect Daniel Abed Khalife, 21, was wearing chef's clothes when he escaped from Wandworth Prison by strapping himself under a food truck on Wednesday, according to The Independent.  

Security sources tell the newspaper that all prison staff are now being questioned. 

- It is almost certain that he received help from inside the prison, says the source.  

The BBC writes that all vehicles are normally checked underneath with mirrors when they enter and exit.  

Despite more than 50 tips from the public, the police have no confirmed traces of the man, writes Sky News. The former soldier Daniel Abed Khalife was in custody on suspicion of, among other things, setting off bomb stairs at a military base and preparing acts of terrorism.

Archive image. Chris O'Meara 

Threats to biodiversity 

2,000 rhinos to be released from park in South Africa  

The South African animal protection organization African Parks is to release 2,000 rhinos into the wild, reports ABC News. The project, which will last for just over ten years, will be one of Africa's most extensive "rewilding" programs, in all categories.  

The rhinos come from the privately owned Platinum Rhino rhino park, which Africa Parks bought last spring. The park was previously owned by South African animal welfare icon John Hume, who was forced to sell his business after falling into financial difficulties.  

The 2,000 rhinos account for roughly 15 percent of the world's total population of proboscis. The species is classified as near-endangered and has been severely decimated as a result of, among other things, poaching. According to the WWF, the population may have reached up to half a million at the beginning of the 20th century. That can be compared with today's figure of around 22,000, according to the African Rhino Specialist Group.