Briefly

UNITED STATES

GOP's Santos under fire amid calls to resign

US Representative George Santos, who lied about much of his resume and life story, will be removed from Congress if found to have broken campaign finance laws, fellow Republican and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer told CNN's State of the Union on Sunday. Santos has repeatedly refused to resign, even as pressure has grown within his own party for him to do so. On Thursday, he said he would vacate his New York City-area seat only if he loses the next election. More than a dozen Republican officials, many of them from Santos' district in parts of Queens and Long Island, have demanded his resignation.

SENEGAL

19 dead, dozens injured in Senegal road crash

A bus swerved to avoid hitting a donkey and collided with a truck, killing at least 19 people and injuring dozens of others in Senegal on Monday, authorities said. The collision happened near Ngeun Sarr in the country's north, President Macky Sall tweeted. The crash involved a public bus and a transport truck, the fire department said. The bus was apparently trying to avoid hitting a donkey, local fire department commander Ousseynou Ndiaye said. Last week, 40 people were killed in a bus crash in Gnivy village in Senegal's Kaffrine region. After that crash, the government announced reforms to try and avoid collisions.

GERMANY

Defense minister quits amid criticism

Germany's much-criticized defense minister announced her resignation Monday, as her department steers the massive project of modernizing the country's military and oversees expanding weapons deliveries to Ukraine. Christine Lambrecht said in a written statement that she had submitted her resignation request to Chancellor Olaf Scholz, adding that "months of media focus on my person" had stood in the way of a factual debate about the military and Germany's security policy. A spokesperson for Scholz said the chancellor had accepted Lambrecht's resignation.

Agencies Via Xinhua