ITALY: Prosecutors may drop a tax evasion investigation into Google after the digital giant agreed a €326 million (£270m) settlement.
The US company was accused of failing to pay taxes on earnings in Italy from 2015-19. Google has previously paid huge fines and unpaid tax settlements in France, the largest amounting to €1 billion in 2019.

CUBA: USAid spent $120 million (£95m) on destabilisation projects in the country between 2007-13, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez says. 
The announcement follows Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel’s revelation that the US aid agency spent $61m (£48m) on 142 specific projects aimed at destabilising Cuba between 2001-6. 
Cuban leaders have been detailing USAid’s past attempts to undermine its socialist system as the aid agency faces an existential crisis under Donald Trump, who has slashed its budget and put almost all its 10,000 staff on administrative leave.

PAKISTAN: Gunmen on a motorbike today shot and killed a police officer assigned to protect polio workers in a region in north-west Pakistan, the latest in a string of deadly attacks on polio workers.
The attack in Bajur, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, came just days after authorities launched the vaccination drive. Police official Nasir Khan said an investigation was underway.
No-one immediately claimed responsibility.

GERMANY: Munich police are investigating a weird stunt by which QR code stickers were placed on over 1,000 tombstones and wooden crosses across three cemeteries.
Scanning the QR code takes you to a screen showing the name of the person buried there and the location of the grave, but nothing else. Nobody knows who placed the stickers on the graves, or why.