The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, secured cabinet approval for a US-backed ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah, set to begin at 4am local time, following diplomatic pressure from President Biden.

Sir Keir Starmer has pledged a firm approach to reduce the welfare budget by £3 billion over five years, aiming to tackle benefit misuse while promoting increased workforce participation.

Ukraine has launched US-supplied long-range missiles into Russia for the first time, following President Biden’s approval and prompting Moscow to assert it may consider a nuclear response to such attacks.

William Hague has criticised Peter Mandelson for attempting to become the UK’s new envoy in the US while also seeking to be chancellor of the University of Oxford, arguing that holding both positions would be incompatible.