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Police in Romania have extended the detention of divisive social media personality Andrew Tate. He is being held on suspicion of human trafficking, rape and forming an organised crime group. Al Jazeera's Harry Fawcett has more on how a climate activist was his undoing.

In Iran, four traffic police officers have been killed in what officials are calling a 'terrorist attack' in the southeastern city of Zahedan. An arrest warrant has been issued for the perpetrators. The motive behind the attack is unclear.

A landslide triggered by heavy rains at a village in India’s western Maharashtra state has killed at least 26 people on Saturday, with many others feared trapped under piles of debris. The landslide occurred on Thursday night in the remote mountain hamlet of Irshalwadi, about 60 km (37 miles) from Mumbai, flattening several houses.

A large blaze burning on the Greek island of Rhodes for the fifth day has forced authorities to evacuate as many as 30,000 people. According to the Greek coastguard, people were being picked up from Kiotari and Lardos beaches on the east of the Mediterranean island popular with tourists. Officials on the island said 30,000 people have already been evacuated, including 2,000 who had to be ferried off beaches.

The Cuban National Assembly has just closed after a three-day session. Cuba's economy grew by nearly 2 percent last year but the island nation is producing far fewer food staples than it did a few years ago. Politicians are now scrambling to find solutions.

Red alerts for extreme heat are in place in most of Italy's main cities. The record temperatures are not just affecting those on land. The warming Mediterranean and increased amounts of plastic pollution are damaging ecosystems in the sea. Al Jazeera’s Hoda Abdel Hamid reports from Anzio, Italy.

Millions of people knew invading Iraq was wrong. Twenty years on, they’ve been proven right, time and time again. The Bush administration never found weapons of mass destruction, and their dream of building a U.S.-friendly government in Iraq blew up in their faces — all while the Iraqi people endured decades of violence and societal collapse. So did anyone benefit from the war? And how did the invasion change the world?

A Russian journalist has been killed during shelling attack in southern Ukraine. RIA News Agency reporter Rostislav Zhuravlev was covering a story in a frontline village in Zaporizhzhia region. Three others were injured in the attack. Russia's defence ministry says Ukrainian forces used cluster munitions, hitting the vehicle the journalists were in.

Imran Khan is the cricket star, turned prime minister, turned ex-prime minister, who’s at the centre of a political storm in Pakistan. #Alpha newz starts with Sandra Gathmann looks at his life and career, to explain how he became so popular – and so divisive.

A trial date has been set for former US president Donald Trump to face charges of withholding top-secret documents. Al Jazeera's Mike Hanna joins us live from Washington DC for the latest updates.

Marshlands in southern Iraq are experiencing their worst drought in 40 years. And that's taken a toll on communities which rely on the UNESCO world heritage site. Here's the story of one Iraqi herder, in his own words.