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Turkey and Pakistan announced a day of mourning on Friday in honour of Ismail Haniyeh, while Hamas has called for “roaring anger marches… from every mosque” to take place after Friday prayers to protest Haniyeh’s killing. Haniyeh had played a key role in indirect talks with Israel over a potential ceasefire deal for the war in Gaza. Haniyeh’s burial caps a week of soaring tensions in the Middle East, which escalated with the killing of 12 children and teenagers in a strike on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Israel accused Hezbollah and vowed “severe” retaliation, though Hezbollah denied it was involved.…

The UK and US have signed a deal to work together on testing advanced artificial intelligence (AI). The agreement signed on Monday says both countries will work together on developing “robust” methods for evaluating the safety of AI tools and the systems that underpin them. It is the first bilateral agreement of its kind. Subscribe here: Read more on the BBC News website: #UK #Technology #BBCNews source

An Israeli missile has hit Iran, US officials have told the BBC’s partner station CBS News. Iranian state media cited unconfirmed reports of explosions being heard around the central city of Isfahan, saying three drones were destroyed after the country’s air defence systems were activated. Iran has been on high alert after Israel said it would respond to the more than 300 Iranian missiles and drones fired at Israel on Saturday night. Subscribe here: For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com/news #Israel #Iran #BBCNews source

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have said they wish “health and healing” for Catherine, Princess of Wales, after she shared her cancer diagnosis. In a brief statement, Prince Harry and Meghan said they hoped Catherine and her family could heal “privately and in peace”. Catherine said on Friday the news was a “huge shock” after an “incredibly tough couple of months”. Details of the cancer have not yet been disclosed. Subscribe here: For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com/news #PrincessOfWales #BBCNews source

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has agreed a new security partnership with India designed to unlock investment in emerging technologies. On a visit to the country, Mr Lammy met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and told the BBC that Britain would work with India to agree a free trade deal in the coming months. The BBC’s diplomatic correspondent, James Landale, was the only journalist travelling with Mr Lammy and sent this report from New Delhi. Subscribe here: For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com/news #India #BBCNews #India #BBCNews source

World leaders have called on Venezuela to release the full details of the election, after the country’s opposition published voting tallies showing its candidate, Edmundo González, won by a wide margin. Last Sunday, the electoral council, which is government-controlled, announced President Maduro had won the election for a third term. But this was immediately disputed by the opposition who said, with access to the majority of receipts from electronic voting machines around the country, it was false. President Maduro has previously accused foreign governments of interfering in the election, and has strongly denied electoral fraud. Subscribe here: For more news,…

Israel has carried out air strikes on the Houthi-controlled Red Sea port of Hodeidah in Yemen, a day after a drone launched by the group hit Tel Aviv. According to Houthi-linked news outlets, three people have died, and more than 80 injured in Saturday’s strikes. On Sunday morning, the Israeli military said it had shot down a missile fired from Yemen before it crossed into Israel’s air space. It comes after a man died in a drone attack in Tel Aviv on Friday – which the Houthis claimed responsibility for. Subscribe here: For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com/news…

There is growing evidence that simple, everyday changes to our lives can alter our brains and change how they work.   So how do we keep our brains healthy?   BBC journalist Melissa Hogenboom explores the latest scientific research and has her own brain scanned and analysed, with intriguing results. Watch part two of Brain Hacks here: Subscribe here: #Science #Meditation #BBCNews source

Doug Mills who works for the New York Times caught the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on camera on Saturday. “When he gestured and then looked… and then grabbed his ear and looked at his hand, I immediately knew that something was bad,” he said. Trump’s ear was grazed by a bullet after a gunman shot at him from a nearby rooftop during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. Mills was at the event just a few feet from the former president when the shots rang out. Subscribe here: For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com/news #DonaldTrump #USElection #BBCNews source

A day of mourning is being observed in Ukraine after one of the worst waves of Russian missile strikes in months, with at least 41 people killed and 166 injured. The main children’s hospital in the capital Kyiv was among buildings hit in cities across the country on Monday. Russia denied targeting the Kyiv hospital, saying it had been hit by fragments of a Ukrainian air defence missile, while Ukraine said it had found remnants of a Russian cruise missile. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the attack “brutal” and described his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as a “bloody criminal”. Subscribe…