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India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is coming under more pressure to impose a strict lockdown across the country, as the surge in coronavirus cases shows no signs of coming under control.

If you are holding out the prospect of a foreign getaway then from May 17th people in England can now travel to 12 countries on the “green list” without having to quarantine upon return.

We spoke with leading international justice lawyer and award winning author Philippe Sands QC about why the  ICC takes so long to finalise cases, and focuses far more on African war criminals than those of other nations.

We spoke to venture capitalist Roger McNamee, author of Zucked: Waking up to the Facebook Catastrophe.

Does it feel like social media has all gone a bit quiet in recent months?

There has been some speculation over the last few days that Iran and the United States may be approaching an agreement that could see the release of a number of dual nationals held in Iran in exchange for the return of Iranian assets in the US and a debt owed by the UK.

We spoke to the sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor about his view on how unequal the impact is across India.

We spoke to Indian journalist Mandakini Gahlot, who has been reporting for us from New Delhi, and began by asking how India went from being a world leader in vaccine production to being desperate for jabs itself.

Calls are growing for a national lockdown in India, with the country’s opposition leader saying there’s simply no other way to stop the spread of coronavirus.

He’s exposed the inner workings of high finance, baseball and the 2016 presidential campaign – and now Michael Lewis, one of America’s most celebrated writers, has turned his attention to the pandemic.

Almost half the cases of Covid in the world every day are being diagnosed in India – and the true numbers there are likely to be far higher.

Vaccines alone aren’t enough to bring the pandemic under control, scientists have warned – something Chile has found out, the hard way.

More than 401,000 new cases have been recorded in the last 24 hours – as several states warned of severe vaccine shortages.

Germany’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the country’s politicians must act more quickly to reduce emissions.

The Ethiopian government’s six-month-long military offensive against the rebel Tigray People’s Liberation Front continues to intensify.