UNITED STATES: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has for more than two decades accepted luxury trips nearly every year from Republican mega-donor Harlan Crow without reporting them on financial disclosure forms, ProPublica reports.

The investigative organisation catalogues various trips — worth more than half a million dollars —Justice Thomas has taken aboard Mr Crow’s yacht, private jet and to his private resort in the Adirondack Mountains in New York state.

TUNISIA: Tunisian President Kais Saied on Thursday rejected “foreign diktats” from the International Monetary Fund, which is in deadlocked talks with the heavily indebted country over a nearly $2 billion (£1.6m) bailout package.

“Regarding the IMF, foreign diktats that will lead to more poverty are unacceptable,” Mr Saied told reporters in the coastal city of Monastir.

UNITED STATES: On Thursday President Joe Biden’s administration laid the blame on his predecessor, Donald Trump, for the deadly and chaotic 2021 withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan.

The White House released a 12-page summary of the results of the so-called “hotwash” of US policies around the ending of the nation’s longest war, saying Mr Biden was “severely constrained” by the former president’s decisions.

AFGHANISTAN: The only Afghan women-run radio station, Sadai Banowan, has resumed its broadcasts after officials shut it down for a week for playing music during the holy month of Ramadan, a Taliban official said today.

Moezuddin Ahmadi, the director for Information and Culture in Badakhshan, said the station was allowed to resume activities on today after it had obeyed the “laws and regulations of the Islamic Emirate” and agreed to stop broadcasting any kind of music.