Uganda goes to the polls this week as President Yoweri Museveni is expected to win a fifth term, having led the country since 1986, the country remains a key US ally in Africa. California officials say the state's high-speed rail service will connect San Francisco and Los Angeles by 2029, with initial service beginning in 2025 between Kern County and San Jose. With the Zika virus now confirmed in Puerto Rico, the FDA is ordering the island to import blood supplies and expects thousands of infections by the peak of summer. Germany's Interior Minister is warning other EU countries of consequences if they continue to refuse to accept Syrian refugees. A new report finds evidence that Volkswagen executives knew about the company's diesel emissions cheating software as early as 2014, more than ten months before the story broke.