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We spoke to the Sri Lankan journalist Faraz Shauketaly and asked him how significant these rulings are.

Sri Lanka’s High Court has sentenced the country’s former police chief to death – after a majority of judges ruled that he failed to act on warnings that suicide bombers planned to stage a series of attacks on Easter Sunday 2019. 

 Nine people have been killed and more than 30 others were injured after Russia launched another large scale ballistic missile attack on the capital Kyiv – the second major strike in just three days.

Spain has installed a 500 metre long barrier along its sea border with Morocco – after tens of thousands of people rushed into the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta.

Donald Trump has announced what he has called an “historic” agreement for the phased, complete disarmament of Hamas – to be overseen by his ‘Board of Peace’ – alongside a gradual withdrawal of Israeli troops. 

We spoke to Gerald Knaus, chair of the European Stability Initiative, a thinktank focused on EU enlargement and integration. We asked him what he thought had happened in Ceuta.

The official death toll in Spain’s tiny North African territory of Ceuta has risen to 57, after tens of thousands of migrants overran border controls and swam and climbed in from neighbouring Morocco. 

The heatwaves and dry weather in Europe have continued to result in wildfires.  Some raged through the night in Spain, with ten areas now said to be of high concern. 

Defence has been in UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s sights, as his relentless policy crusade continues.

Ukraine’s mastery of drone warfare has helped slow Russia’s advance and damage its economy. 

Ukraine’s mastery of drone warfare has helped slow Russia’s advance and damage its economy. 

Much of the land that has been burning in the Suffolk wildfire is owned by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

More than a hundred firefighters are tackling a wildfire in Suffolk, UK just a few miles away from the Sizewell nuclear power station.

We spoke to the former Football Association chairman, David Bernstein.

Gianni Infantino has given Fifa’s 211 member associations 53 days to sign up to his World Cup sell-off plan. If they do, he says they’ll each get up to $40 million.