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Germany's prosecutor general forwarded an arrest warrant for one of three Ukrainians suspected of blowing up the Nord Stream gas pipeline to the Polish authorities in June, as reports in the media have now revealed. What are the implications for Berlin's relations with Kyiv?

The assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran has provoked harsh reactions and concerns about escalation. Iran has vowed to take revenge on Israel, who it is blaming for the deadly airstrike. Russia, China and Turkey have also condemned the attack. Commentators analyse the events and potential consequences.

Over the past few days, lawyers and relatives of a number of well-known political prisoners in Russia have been informed that the prisoners are no longer in the jails where they had been held up to now. Their current location is unknown. The missing prisoners include 18-year-old German student Kevin Lick, the artist Sasha Skochilenko, the human rights activist Oleg Orlov and politicians Ilya Yashin and Vladimir Kara-Murza.

Two women boxers who were disqualified from the 2023 world championships after failing the gender tests are being allowed to fight in the Olympics: Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting and Algeria's Imane Khelif, who will compete against the Italian Angela Carini today. Members of Italy's far-right conservative government are now calling it an unfair fight, claiming that Khelif is trans and male.