Briefest

Strikes on Iran by Israel and the USA continue to be met with counter-strikes across the Middle East.

An outbreak of Meningitis B in Kent has hospitalised 20 and killed 2.

20,000 merchant mariners are short of supplies, stranded on vessels in the Gulf of Oman following the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

An arson attack in Golders Green, London has destroyed four ambulances of a Jewish aid group.

Four Ecuadorian provinces are living under nightly curfew in an ongoing drug enforcement operation.