Ukraine is forging ahead with early plans for joint weapons production with some international allies, top officials said, while warning yesterday of potential consequences of the US decision to halt some arms shipments promised to help Kyiv fight off Russia&s invasion.

Four people died in Spain, two in France and two in Italy as an early summer heatwave continued to grip much of Europe on Wednesday, triggering health alerts and forest fires and forcing the closure of a nuclear reactor at a Swiss power plant.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that "there will be no Hamas" in post-war Gaza.

Murder squad detectives investigating child killer Lucy Letby have passed evidence of further allegations related to baby deaths and collapses at the hospitals where she worked.