Friday briefing: What we know so far about the Air India flight 171 crash

In today’s newsletter: Israel takes unilateral action against Iran, which was in the middle of negotiations with the US, taking the Middle East to the brink of all-out warGood morning. After threatening to do so for decades, Israel launched a wave of strikes on Iran, which hit “dozens” of targets including its nuclear facilities, military commanders and scientists. Israel claimed it took this unilateral action because Tehran had begun to build nuclear warheads.Iran responded by launching 100 drones towards Israel. The region now stands at a precipice of a catastrophic, all out war.India | Teams of sniffer dogs have combed the wreckage of Air India Flight 171, which crashed shortly after takeoff in Ahmedabad, killing at least 265 people on board. One man, British national Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, miraculously survived.UK politics | Rachel Reeves is a “gnat’s whisker” away from raising taxes this autumn, the director of Institute for Fiscal Studies, Paul Johnson, says.Northern Ireland | DUP minister Gordon Lyons has rejected calls to resign after social media posts claiming people who fled Ballymena were housed in a leisure centre in Larne, which was set on fire.Bangladesh | British property belonging to former land minister of Bangladesh worth £170m has been frozen by the National Crime Agency amid a crackdown on allies of Sheikh Hasina.Environment | Yorkshire has entered a drought after the county recorded its driest spring in 132 years. Continue reading...

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