Operation Free Zelensky: How secret mission to get Ukrainian president across the Atlantic was carried out with NATO spy aircraft and fighters… as he tells US lawmakers ‘your money is not charity, it’s an investment in democracy’.

A US preacher who was robbed at gunpoint of more than $1m (£840,000) in jewellery during a livestreamed sermon in New York has been indicted on charges of fraud and extortion.

The Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS Commission) says it received the attempted coup in the Gambia with “utter dismay and shock”.

Burkina Faso’s mines minister has denied an allegation by the president of Ghana that its northern neighbour had paid Russian mercenaries by giving them the rights to a mine.

The Gambia’s government says it has thwarted an attempt to stage a coup.

Vladimir Putin believes Russia is not to blame for the war in Ukraine, adding both countries are “sharing a tragedy”.