News of the day from across the globe, Aug. 21

Without a public announcement that it would happen, Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza was sworn in on Thursday for a third term amid political turmoil in which more than 100 people have died and tens of thousands have fled the country.

Burundi has been rocked by turmoil since the April announcement of Nkurunziza’s candidacy that many said violated the Constitution and a peace accord that ended Burundi’s civil war.

Double agent: A German spy who allegedly acted as a double agent for the U.S. and Russia has been charged with treason, breach of official secrecy and taking bribes, Germany’s federal prosecutors’ office said Thursday.

The 32-year-old, identified only as Markus R. due to privacy rules, is accused of offering his services to the CIA in early 2008 while working for Germany’s foreign intelligence agency BND.

The decision regarding a figure who has for decades been one of the mainstays of French politics came in a statement hours after the end of a three-hour hearing by the party’s executive bureau.

In recent public statements, Le Pen downplayed Nazi gas chambers and insulted his daughter and the party’s No. 2 figure, Florian Philippot.

Militants in Syria fired several rockets into northern Israel on Thursday, prompting Israeli retaliatory fire, the military said — the first time since the 1973 Mideast war that rockets from Syrian territory have slammed into Israel.