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Mikhail Gorbachev: Putin expresses deepest condolences

Mikhail Gorbachev will be buried in Moscow’s Novodevichy Cemetery next to his wife Raisa, who died in 1999, says Tass news agency

Figures from across the world are paying tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev who has died in Moscow at the age of 91 in Moscow.

The EU is giving more than five million anti-radiation tablets to Ukraine, as fears grow of an accident at Europe's largest nuclear power plant.

And Pakistan is facing "a monsoon on steroids", warns the UN's secretary general, after floods submerged a third of the country.

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  • Wed 31 Aug 202206:06GMT