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The EU’s highest court has ordered Apple to pay back €13 billion to Ireland in one of the world’s biggest ever corporate tax rulings. It’s an expensive knock in the teeth for the technology giant, at a time when competitors are nipping at its heels. And it raises questions once again about Ireland’s low-tax business economy.

We were joined by Sara Tindall Ghazal from Atlanta, who’s the lone Democrat on the Georgia state election board.

One place where Donald Trump’s lawyers worked overtime after the last election was Georgia, where a criminal trial is pending that could land the former president in jail over allegations he tried to overturn the result. 

It’s yet to be determined if this will be a transformational and revolutionary Paralympic Games, but if there’s one nation that isn’t afraid to stand up for what it believes in and enforce change, it’s France.

The former diplomat widely considered to be the legitimate winner of Venezuela’s presidential election has left the country. 

A Jordanian citizen has shot dead three Israeli civilians at the Allenby Bridge border crossing in the occupied West Bank. It’s the first attack of its kind on the border with Jordan since October 7 Hamas attacks on southern Israel.

We spoke to Greg Swenson from Republicans Abroad, and asked him if the Dick Cheney endorsement of the Democrats meant the Republican party had completely changed.

In another US election year, it might have been unthinkable – a promise from one of the Republican party’s most prominent grandees to vote for the democratic candidate. 

Officials in Gaza said more than a dozen Palestinians were killed overnight in Israeli air strikes – as the US government says it hopes a more detailed ceasefire plan is days away. 

The FBI have revealed that they believe that there is an army of social media influencers pedalling Kremlin propaganda across the globe.

An American woman has been shot dead in the occupied West Bank while protesting against Israeli settlements.

The US has filed money-laundering charges against two employees of the Russian state media network RT.

Michel Barnier has been appointed as the new French Prime Minister, almost two months after France’s snap elections ended in political deadlock.

An early morning Russian drone and missile strike has killed seven people in the western city of Lviv.

Three years ago this programme was in Ethiopia to meet a talented young athlete.