Israel&s far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich yesterday sharply criticised a cabinet decision to allow some aid into Gaza as a &grave mistake& that he said would benefit the militant Palestinian group Hamas.

The law does not have an age limit, the head of the Britain&s Metropolitan Police said after an 83-year-old reverend was arrested when protesters gathered to show support for Palestine Action, which has been banned as a terror group.

Pope Leo XIV headed yesterday to the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo for a six-week holiday.

Russia and Ukraine struck each other with hundreds of drones yesterday, throwing Russian air travel into disarray, shortly after Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky announced deals with Western partners that would allow Kyiv to scale up drone production.