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Afghanistan- ever since the West withdrew in haste almost two years ago and the Taliban retook power, we stopped paying much attention.

Much of Kherson, which was liberated by Ukraine late last year, has been turned into a giant lake.

We spoke to Igor Zhovkva, who is one of President Zelenskyy’s closest aides, and asked him if he had any evidence that the Russians had blown up the dam?

A mass emergency evacuation of thousands of people is under way in Ukraine’s southern region of Kherson.

She was once branded “Australia’s worst female serial killer” – but a woman who spent 20 years behind bars – convicted of killing her four babies – is today free, having been pardoned in what’s being dubbed one of the country’s greatest-ever miscarriages of justice.

We spoke to Yuriy Sak, who’s an adviser to Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence.

We spoke to retired Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman who was the top Ukraine expert on the US National Security Council.

The silence Kyiv had been encouraging seemed to break today – and in the last few hours a Ukrainian deputy defence minister appeared to confirm that the war may be about to enter a new phase, with her country’s forces moving to “offensive actions” in some places.

The developments in renewable energy and  technology the world needs to tackle the climate crisis.

We spoke to Sir Mark Lyall Grant, former UK national security adviser and ambassador to the UN, and asked him whether this was all part of a diplomatic escalation.

We spoke to Evgeny Popov, an MP for President Putin’s United Russia party and a host of the 60 Minutes political news programme.

Ukraine’s long awaited summer offensive – months in the making – isn’t yet materialising as expected.

We speak to Viola von Cramon, the German Green Party MEP who is the European Parliament’s Kosovo rapporteur.

NATO has said it will deploy additional forces to Kosovo, following clashes between peacekeeping troops and ethnic Serb protesters which left dozens injured. 

Russia’s wave of drone attacks against Ukraine continued overnight – killing at least four people across the country and sparking fires in residential buildings in Kyiv.