Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) athletes will be training agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week, both organisations say.

Current and former UFC fighters will visit the FBI Special Agent Academy in Quantico, Virginia, this weekend for a "training seminar" for senior FBI staff and students.

FBI Director Kash Patel called it "a tremendous opportunity" for agents "to learn and train with some of the greatest athletes on earth", adding that it will help the agency "be even better prepared

Israel's most senior military lawyer has said all charges against five soldiers accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee from Gaza have been dropped.

The military said the indictments were withdrawn in part due to "exceptional circumstances that negatively affected the ability to prosecute the case while also preserving the right for a fair trial of the defendants".

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the decision.

But the move was condemned by human

The UAE's Minister of State, Lana Nusseibeh, has called on Iran to end its strikes on countries in the region and vowed that her country would "bounce back".

More than 1,800 drones and missiles have been projected at the UAE since the war began, she said.

The extent of the attacks came as a "shock", she told

Iran will continue blocking the Strait of Hormuz, the world's busiest oil shipping channel, according to a statement attributed to Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.

His message was broadcast on Iranian state TV, but Khamenei did not appear in person. His message was instead read out by a newsreader.

Iran would "avenge the blood" of Iranians killed in the war with the US and Israel, Khamenei said in the statement, which also warned neighbouring countries to stop hosting US bases

A million illegally-registered cars are being driven in France in a fraud scandal that has cost hundreds of millions of euros in lost taxes and fines, according to the state auditor.

The fraud – in which fake dealerships manipulate the records of the state vehicle licensing agency (SIV) – is also endangering lives by allowing unsafe cars and lorries onto the road.

And it has proved a boon for crime.

Vulnerabilities "have allowed the whole gamut of criminality – from petty delinquency to organised crime –

Prosecutors in Italy are seeking charges against the parents of a nine-year-old girl alleged to have been infected with HIV and deprived of medical care for years.

The girl's mother is said to have hidden her HIV-positive status during pregnancy and travelled to Spain to give birth in 2017.

The couple then returned to Italy, but their daughter was alleged not to have been seen by any medical professionals until six years later when she became very ill.

They face charges of grave

The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has won a landslide in Nepal's election - the first held since last year's youth-led protests toppled the then government.

The RSP received 182 votes in the final tally - falling short of achieving a two-thirds supermajority in the parliament's lower house by two seats. Nevertheless, it is the biggest win for a single party in Nepal in decades.

A well-known Eritrean satirical cartoonist has been freed from prison after spending 15 years in detention without charge, his family and friends have told the BBC.

Biniam Solomon, now in his early 60s, was arrested in the capital, Asmara, in 2011 but was never tried. The reasons for his continued imprisonment were

"We thought they'd kill all the senior figures and the regime would collapse in days, but we are in the second week now and every night I wake to explosions," a Tehran resident told the BBC.

She initially supported the war, but her frustration is growing.

For some Iranians who oppose their country's leadership, the war they initially hoped might accelerate political change is now forcing a painful reassessment, and they are beginning to question whether the cost of