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1. US F-35 fighter jet hit during Iran war mission

2. Trump intel chief Tulsi Gabbard and CIA’s Ratcliffe contradict key missile-strike justification for Iran war: Recap

   Thursday’s hearing comes a day after the Director of National Intelligence testified before the Senate, alongside CIA Director John Ratcliffe and FBI chief Kash Patel

3. Netanyahu is copying Putin’s tactics by bombing Iran’s energy system – it will backfire badly

   The Israeli bombing of the South Pars gas field has chilling parallels to Russia’s bombing of Ukrainian infrastructure, which has been condemned as a possible war crime. World affairs editor Sam Kiley writes that such a strategy will cause needless pain and do nothing to bring the regime to its knees

4. Iran-US war latest: Hegseth slams European allies as ‘ungrateful’ and says they should thank Trump for ‘winning’ war

   The US defense secretary said Washington was stopping a ‘terror state from holding the world hostage’ with a nuclear weapon

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6. Stopping GLP-1s can reverse cardiovascular benefits within six months, study finds

   Discontinuing the drugs leaves a ‘lasting scar,’ researchers at WashU Medicine say

7. Ex-Towie star dies in Thailand just weeks after moving there

8. Tesla self-driving probe expands to include 3.2 million vehicles

   The agency is now opening an engineering analysis, a required step before it can seek a recall

9. Liam Rosenior insists Enzo Fernandez is ‘completely committed’ after Chelsea exit hint

   Enzo Fernandez hinted that he could leave Chelsea this summer following his side’s Champions League defeat by PSG

10. Could the war in Iran be Trump’s ‘greatest miscalculation’ yet?