Headlines – Dnipro dam explosion | India train crash | Iran weapons programme | Kuwait elections

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0:02 – Dnipro dam explosion

0:19 – India train crash

0:34 – Iranian weapons programme

0:54 – Kuwait elections

1:12 – Kosovo tensions

1:31 – Prince Harry to testify

Ukraine and Russsia are accusing each other of blowing up a major dam, sparking warnings of severe flooding in Russian controlled territory downstream in the region of Kherson.

Water levels have risen by 10 metres in the area.

Investigators have arrived at the site of India’s worst train crash in decades.

Preliminary findings pointed to a signaling system error as the cause of the accident on Friday.

A criminal inquiry has been launched.

At least 275 people were killed. when the train came off of rail tracks after striking stationary freight carriages.

It then collided with another passenger train.

Iran has unveiled what it says is its first domestically-made hypersonic ballistic missile.

Named Fattah, it was revealed at a ceremony attended by president Ebrahim Raisi and top commanders of the Revolutionary Guard.

Hypersonic missiles can fly on a complex trajectory at least five times faster than the speed of sound.

That makes it difficult for them to be intercepted.

Kuwait is holding its second parliamentary election in a year, as it tries to resolve a long-running political crisis.

The snap vote was called by the Crown Prince last month after he dissolved parliament.

Friction between the ruling family and MPs has caused political paralysis and stalled reforms.

Kosovo’s Prime Minister has held talks with EU and U.S. representatives after days of unrest.

The EU envoy presented proposals to de-escalate tensions and hold new elections in northern Kosovo.

Violence broke out last month after the installation of ethnic Albanian mayors in Serb-majority areas.

Many Serbs boycotted the poll.

Dozens of NATO peacekeepers were injured last week.

A Turkish battalion has since arrived to support NATO forces.

Britain’s Prince Harry is set to testify in a London court, in his civil case against Mirror Group Newspapers, the parent company of the Daily Mirror.

He will be the first royal to enter the witness box since 1890.

The Prince alleges over a hundred articles published between 1996 and 2011 contain information obtained through illegal means – like phone-hacking.

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