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What happens to all those forced to abandon their homes and seek safety in the first safe country they get to?

We spoke to Eujin Byun from the UNHCR, who has just come back from Sudan’s border with Chad.

Fighting and airstrikes have continued inside Sudan despite a week-long ceasefire, although humanitarian missions have managed to deliver some urgently needed aid.

According to the polls, Ron DeSantis is the only other contender with a chance of beating Donald Trump to become the Republican nominee in the 2024 presidential race.

The head of the private Russian mercenary group, Wagner, has said his troops are handing over the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut to regular Russian forces.

The latest hunt for clues in the 16 year search for missing Madeleine McCann has ended.

This past week, the G7, the group of the world’s richest democracies, gathered in Japan to discuss Ukraine, Russia, global affairs, and their increasing concerns about a rising power looking out at them from over the water: China.

Twitter may once have been the social media turf favoured by former US president Donald Trump. 

The outcome of the Ukraine-Russia war is far from clear, but what’s certain is that the conflict has transformed the global identities of both sides. 

‘Bakhmut is only in our hearts. There is nothing, just ruins and dead Russians’ – the words of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy who insisted at the G7 summit in Japan his forces still control a small part of the besieged town in the east of the country.

China is a vehicle to get to Russia, says Former Diplomat representing Ireland at the UN and EU and who now teaches Diplomacy at Oxford University, Jennifer Cassidy.

World leaders met for the second day at the G7 conference in Hiroshima, joined by Ukrainian president Volodymr Zelenskyy. 

We were joined by Charles Lister, Syria programme director at the Middle East Institute think tank.

We spoke to Alistair Burt, who was the UK’s Middle East minister for much of the time the Syrian Civil War was raging. We began by asking him whether Assad’s appearance will give reassurance to President Putin.

The United States is backing an international plan to train Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 fighter jets due to begin in the next few weeks.