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Keir Starmer dismisses Russian president's warning to Western governments

The British prime minister Keir Starmer has dismissed President Putin's warning to the West against allowing Ukraine to use its long-range missiles inside Russia.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has issued a stark warning to western governments not to allow Ukraine to use long-range missiles supplied by them against targets inside Russia itself. He said it would mean western military alliance , Nato was fighting against Russia.

The row over an Israeli air strike on a Gaza school this week continues. The United Nations says six of its aid workers were among those killed, while Israel says half of those killed were members of Hamas.

The President of Kenya, William Rut, is in Germany today. He is there to sign an agreement to allow Kenyan workers to travel to Germany to work, but critics say the loss of skilled workers will damage the Kenyan economy.

The governor of Borno state in north-eastern Nigeria says massive flooding may have displaced two million people.

In Sudan, which remains in the grip of a civil war, more than seven thousand cases of cholera have been reported, with deaths from the disease rising past two hundred.

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