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A UK parliament committee has ruled that Boris Johnson deliberately misled MPs over Covid lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street when he was prime minister. The cross-party Privileges Committee said Johnson would have been suspended as an MP for 90 days for "repeated contempts (of parliament) and for seeking to undermine the parliamentary process", had he not already resigned after being shown a pre-publication version of the report. IMAGES of the report
Accompanied by Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury and Iain Greenshields of the Church of Scotland, Pope Francis meets with the authorities and diplomatic corps of South Sudan at the Presidential Palace in Juba. IMAGES
Mmusi Maimane, leader of the the main opposition centrist Democratic Alliance (DA) party, shares his concerns over reports that many South African citizens were able to vote more than once in Wednesday's general elections. He says he will be supporting an audit so the matter can be properly "interrogated."
A fire breaks out at a tower of flats in London, on the day the Grenfell Tower fire second inquiry report is published. The fire was brought under control within two hours with no reports of injuries. UK's Grenfell Tower disaster in 2017 killed 72 people, and today's new report markes the end of its long-running inquiry. IMAGES
Grenfell Tower Inquiry chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick and other members of the inquiry panel arrive at the venue in London where the findings of their investigation are to be heard. The Grenfell Tower fire killed 72 people on June 14, 2017, in Britain's worst residential fire since World War II. IMAGES