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170 million TikTok users in the United States may have to suddenly find a new platform for their videos – after the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a law effectively banning the app.  

The former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan has been sentenced to 14 years in jail, after he and his wife were accused of receiving plots of land as a bribe. 

Two people who took their own lives in a Scottish young offenders institution were handed a “death sentence”, according to a lawyer for their families – as a fatal accident inquiry blamed systemic failures for their deaths.  

We spoke to Brigadier General Amir Avivi, who previously served in the Israel Defense Forces and founded the Israel Defense and Security Forum. 

We spoke to Dr Louisa Baxter, a doctor working for Save the Children in Gaza. She’s currently stationed in Deir al Balah in central Gaza.

So if next week is indeed the next chapter in the sorry story of the Gaza strip, what will that look like?

After 48 hours of tense final negotiations since the ceasefire deal was announced, Israel’s security cabinet has now voted to approve it.

For undocumented migrants across the US, fears are becoming very real – of a knock on the door from the authorities, of potential separation from their children, of the loss of the lives they’ve built up here.

Since June 2023, at least 400 deaths have been linked to new synthetic opioid drugs that were either not previously linked to severe public health concerns or had been created with compositions that allowed them to evade legal restrictions.

We spoke to Antoine Renard from the World Food Programme and began by asking him if celebrations at the news of the ceasefire were curtailed by the overnight violence.

We spoke to Nomi Bar-Yaacov, an international peace negotiator with decades of experience in conflict management.

So despite celebrations last night in Gaza and words of peace from President Biden the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas is not quite signed and sealed yet.

Israel and Hamas have finally reached a ceasefire deal over the war in Gaza days before Donald Trump takes over from Joe Biden as the next US president – but Benjamin Netanyahu’s government hasn’t signed it yet – and while Palestinians in Gaza are celebrating, there’s still a chance it could be derailed.

Here’s what you need to know about the ceasefire that’s just been announced.