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Women have been rushing to make appointments at abortion clinics in states across America before they shut their doors for good, after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion.

Russian forces have fired a series of missiles at the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, at the very moment that leaders from the G7 group of nations met in Germany to declare their continuing support for Ukraine and announce new embargoes against Russia. 

Boris Johnson will be going straight from the Commonwealth meeting in Kigali to a G7 summit in Germany, then to meet Nato leaders in Spain. 

Human rights groups in Morocco and Spain have called for an investigation after up to 27 people died when a crowd tried to scale the border fence to get into the Spanish enclave of Melilla.

In Kigali, Prince Charles and Boris Johnson met this week for a cup of tea and a catch up. It was their first meeting since reports claimed that the Prince had privately described plans to deport asylum seekers to the country as “appalling”. 

It was cancelled for two years due to Covid, but Glastonbury has finally returned with a bang.

The Taliban deputy leader has appealed for international aid as Afghanistan struggles to cope with the thousands left injured and homeless by Wednesday’s earthquake.

We spoke to Terrisa Bukovinac from the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising group and Jose Vela – a member of Austin City Council who’s pro-choice.

It was a decision that America knew was coming.

We’re joined from Brussels by the Lithuanian MEP, Petras Austrevicius.

For the first time in decades, new gun safety legislation has won support from Republicans and Democrats in the US Senate. 

It was hailed as COP26’s first major deal and was endorsed by more than 100 world leaders – a pledge to end deforestation by 2030. 

We spoke to Yolande Makolo, who is the spokesperson for the Rwandan government. 

In Rwanda, Commonwealth leaders are meeting tonight for the first time in four years. 

In Afghanistan emergency aid is beginning to reach the remote mountainous area which was hit in the early hours of Wednesday morning by a huge 6.1 magnitude earthquake.