MI5 is devoting more resource to countering state threats than during the Cold War, the head of the intelligence service has said, …

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An undercover investigation by the BBC into the rise of an unproven cancer treatment has found it could be putting patients at risk of harm.

Journalist Paul Heaney exposes those selling hopes of a cancer cure to the most vulnerable.

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Three weeks after welcoming her newborn son, a stroke left a fit and active mum-of-two paralysed.

Unable to move the left side of her body, Becki watched as family life continued around her.

Determined to regain her independence, she embarked on a gruelling rehabilitation process that enabled her to be there for her children again.

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The World Food Programme says it will have to drastically reduce lifesaving food aid in Gaza because of a lack of funding.

Overall the number of Palestinians helped by the United Nations agency will drop by about a third from 1.6 million people to 1.1 million.

The agency says it urgently needs $450m over the next six months to sustain critical operations in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

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07:33 The BBC reports from Chicago on the powerful synthetic drugs reshaping the drug crisis in the US

15:51 The French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu asks some cities to impose partial curfews after a weekend of riots and looting

19:08 Japan is launching a world first mission to bring back samples from Phobos, one of the two small, potato-shaped moons orbiting Mars

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Saudi Arabia has said the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen will face “consequences” after a series of deadly attacks on Riyadh’s airport and other sites across the country.

Meanwhile, Houthi media reported an oil facility in the Yemeni capital Sanaa has been hit by Saudi-coalition forces.

And the head of MI5 said Iran is expanding a hybrid campaign in the UK, targeting Jewish communities and military bases.

Elsewhere, the International Monetary Fund said the global economy has dealt with the impacts of war in Iran better than expected, but warns that countries are running out of flexibility to tackle rising prices.

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