In a statement on the brand's Instagram page, it said Armani " worked until his final days, dedicating himself to the company, the collections and the many ongoing future projects".
It also said he was "indefatigable to the end" and "driven by relentless curiosity and a deep attention to the present and to people".
The designer was seen as a pioneer in many ways, elevating red carpet fashion to what we see today.
He was also the first designer to ban underweight models from the runway, after the death of model Ana Carolina Reston in 2006 from anorexia nervosa.
In a profile in The Financial Times, in one of the designer's last interviews, Alexander Fury wrote: "He put women into a uniform of suits just as radical as Chanel's, creating forceful, confident clothing that helped to power the working woman's social revolution of the 1980s.
"By contrast, he relaxed menswear, deconstructing traditional tailoring in a manner that has affected how just about every suit in the world is made."
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Ukraine is looking for security guarantees as part of a deal to end the 40-month full-scale Russian war
The leaders of about 30 Western countries are taking part in a summit in Paris with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, with the aim of giving Kyiv security assurances if a ceasefire is agreed, and persuading the US to provide support.
Hopes of a deal to end the fighting have receded since Russia's Vladimir Putin met Donald Trump in Alaska, although the US president said on the eve of Thursday's talks that "we're going to get it done".
Trump was due to talk to leaders of the "Coalition of the Willing" by phone after the Paris summit, and French officials said it was important for many European partners that any military guarantees for Kyiv involved an "American safety net".
Last month he said the US was willing to help "probably" with air support, and Western allies are keen for Trump to confirm that.
The summit opened on Thursday, chaired by France's Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, and many of the leaders took part remotely.
Nato chief Mark Rutte said the aim was to have "clarity" on what the coalition could deliver so they could discuss what the Americans could provide.
Air support could include help with air defence or intelligence, but details so far are vague.
A source at the Élysée Palace said there were three aims behind the security guarantees: to strengthen Ukraine's armed forces; to support them by deploying a separate force to make it clear to Russia that Ukraine has Western backing; and to have a US safety net, which the Americans would obviously have to maintain.
Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky said ahead of the talks that Kyiv had received "signals" from the Americans that they would provide a backstop.
US special envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Paris ahead of the summit and reports said he was due to meet Zelensky.
More than 40 months after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Putin has said this week that there is "a certain light at the end of the tunnel" and that "there are options for ensuring Ukraine's security in the event the conflict ends".
However, Russia has made clear that no Western forces should be deployed to Ukraine and it has insisted that it should be one of the countries acting as "guarantors" - an idea rejected by Kyiv and its allies.
Putin has also raised the unrealistic prospect of Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky coming to Moscow for talks.
Mark Rutte said on Thursday that Russia had no veto on Western troops being deployed to Ukraine: "Why are we interested in what Russia thinks about troops in Ukraine? It's a sovereign country. It's not for them to decide."
President Trump told CBS News on Wednesday that he remained committed to reaching a deal to end the war and said he continued to have a good relationship with both Putin and Zelensky.
"I think we're going to get it all straightened out," he said.
Watch: 'My job is to make sure Ukraine stays in the fight', says John Healey
UK Defence Secretary John Healey has praised Trump, who he says "brought Putin into talks" and "not closed off any options".
Ukraine is looking to the Coalition of the Willing to come up with a reassurance force involving British, French and other European troops. Germany has said it is too soon to make that kind of commitment.
The Russian leader, who spent Wednesday with China's Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, claims that his country's military is pushing forward on all fronts in Ukraine.
He warned that without a deal Moscow was prepared to "resolve all our tasks militarily".
While Ukraine and its allies say a ceasefire should be agreed initially, Russia has insisted its campaign will not end before a full peace deal.
The source at the Élysée Palace said it had already become clear that Russia had no intention of having a ceasefire as part of a peace deal.
The source pointed to the demarcation line between North and South Korea, where a ceasefire had lasted for years with a powerfully armed, allied American deployment serving as a signal to North Korea. That concept was extremely important for the Ukrainians, the source added.
US President Donald Trump has downplayed suggestions he wants to win the Nobel Peace Prize, after weeks of speculation.
"I have nothing to say about it," Trump told CBS News. "All I can do is put out wars." The president added: "I don't seek attention. I just want to save lives."
The comments appear to be at odds with previous statements on the matter, when he has said he should be given the prestigious accolade for his part in ending several conflicts.
In the same telephone interview, Trump told the outlet that he was committed to helping to secure a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine. He said: "Something is going to happen. We are going to get it done."
Trump is expected to speak by phone to pro-Ukraine European leaders who are meeting in Paris on Thursday. His special envoy Steve Witkoff is attending in person.
The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is due to be announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee on 10 October. Four previous US presidents have been awarded the honour, including Trump's political adversary Barack Obama.
In February, Trump lamented: "They will never give me a Nobel Peace Prize. I deserve it, but they will never give it."
His press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, reinforced the message in July, arguing that it was "well past time" that Trump won the prize.
Other members of his top team have added to the crescendo. At a cabinet meeting last week, his envoy Steve Witkoff called him the "single finest" Nobel candidate in history due to his "game-changing" work.
The five Nobel panel members are appointed by the Norwegian parliament. Trump has reportedly discussed his prizewinning hopes with Norwegian Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg - though Stoltenberg has not confirmed this.
The US president has been nominated by several countries, including Israel and Pakistan. Trump took credit for cooling tensions between Pakistan and neighbouring India earlier this year.
That was one of six or seven wars that Trump has previously said he has "ended".
The claim has drawn scrutiny from analysts who say some of these conflicts lasted just days - though they were the result of long-standing tensions. It is unclear whether some of the peace deals will last.
BBC Verify has explored Trump's role in cooling down seven conflicts - including a conflict between Israel and Iran, and others.
Andrew Holness has been governing Jamaica since 2016
Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness, 53, has won a rare third term in office after his Labour Party sailed to victory in Monday's election.
The Caribbean nation's electoral commission said the Labour Party had won 34 seats, beating the opposition People's National Party (PNP), which secured 29 seats, according to preliminary figures.
The candidate for the PNP, Mark Golding, has conceded defeat.
Holness campaigned on a promise to lower the income tax rate from 25% to 15%, while Golding had said he would raise the income tax threshold.
The incumbent was also credited by many voters for bringing down the number of homicides in the country after the murder rate fell to its lowest in 25 years in the first quarter of 2025, according to official figures.
While there was some criticism of the measures used to bring about the drop in crime - such as states of emergency being declared in some regions - the increased sense of safety seems to have helped propel Holness to another term.
But the economy was at the centre of the election campaign with the Labour Party pointing to the low unemployment rate of 3.3% as one of its achievements in office.
The main opposition party, the PNP, accused the government of squandering money, citing the high cost of second-hand school buses it had purchased.
It also raised questions about the Holness's integrity, citing a report which had questioned his income and assets declaration.
Holness denied any wrongdoing and accused the PNP of using the report as a "distraction" because, he said, the government's record was such that there was little the opposition could criticise.
While turnout was low at 39.5%, an observer mission sent by the Organization of American States (OAS) praised Jamaican voters for being "calm and orderly with a sense of civic maturity and pride".
Holness thanked voters for "this historic third term" and for their "trust, your faith and your belief in the vision of a stronger, safer, more prosperous Jamaica".
The hit represents a near halving of Paluel's 5.2 gigawatt output, after one of its four reactors was shut down and a second was reduced as a protective measure.
Nuclear makes up about 70% of Frances' energy consumption, according to the World Nuclear Association (WNA).
Paluel is one of France's largest nuclear power plants, with each of its four units generating over 1,300 megawatts of power.
EDF said in a statement that they took the measures at 21:00 local time (19:00 GMT) after the "arrival of jellyfish" in the filters of the non-nuclear part of the plant.
The company added that its teams were "carrying out the necessary diagnostics and interventions" to get both reactors fully back online.
An investigation has been launched after a grandfather mistakenly took home the wrong child from a daycare centre in Sydney, Australia.
The man arrived to collect his grandchild from First Steps Learning Academy in the southern suburb of Bangor, on Monday afternoon.
But he accidentally took home a different child, who was asleep in a dark room.
The mistake only became clear when the mother of the child arrived at the centre to find that her one-year-old was not there, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
"I can't explain the feeling," she told the newspaper.
"They couldn't tell me his [the man's] name, they couldn't tell me who he was, they couldn't tell me who he was meant to pick up. They couldn't tell me what he looked like, apart from that he was wearing shorts and he was an older gentleman," the mother, who asked not to be named, explained.
As part of safety protocols, childcare centres do not allow children to be collected by anyone else except recognised parents, guardians or carers
But she also said the grandfather is not to blame.
"We are not angry with him. We are not upset at him – we blame the day care."
The grandfather's wife told the Sydney Morning Herald that her husband is "devastated" and has "owned the mistake".
"When he realised, he raced that child back so fast," she said.
First Steps told the BBC that the educator involved in the incident has been stood down.
"We sincerely apologise to the families directly involved in this deeply upsetting and isolated incident," nursery director Trisha Hastie said.
She added that has never happened before at any of First Steps' nurseries, and it has strengthened procedures to "ensure this never happens again".
An investigation is underway into the "deeply concerning and serious incident", the New South Wales Early Childhood Education and Care Regulatory Authority said.
The incident comes at a time of heightened awareness surrounding safety at Australia's childcare centres, and last month, new legislative changes were announced aimed at improving safety standards in the sector.
Ukraine is looking for security guarantees as part of a deal to end the 40-month full-scale Russian war
The leaders of about 30 Western countries are taking part in a summit in Paris with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, with the aim of giving Kyiv security assurances if a ceasefire is agreed, and persuading the US to provide support.
Hopes of a deal to end the fighting have receded since Russia's Vladimir Putin met Donald Trump in Alaska, although the US president said on the eve of Thursday's talks that "we're going to get it done".
Trump was due to talk to leaders of the "Coalition of the Willing" by phone after the Paris summit, and French officials said it was important for many European partners that any military guarantees for Kyiv involved an "American safety net".
Last month he said the US was willing to help "probably" with air support, and Western allies are keen for Trump to confirm that.
The summit opened on Thursday, chaired by France's Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, and many of the leaders took part remotely.
Nato chief Mark Rutte said the aim was to have "clarity" on what the coalition could deliver so they could discuss what the Americans could provide.
Air support could include help with air defence or intelligence, but details so far are vague.
A source at the Élysée Palace said there were three aims behind the security guarantees: to strengthen Ukraine's armed forces; to support them by deploying a separate force to make it clear to Russia that Ukraine has Western backing; and to have a US safety net, which the Americans would obviously have to maintain.
Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky said ahead of the talks that Kyiv had received "signals" from the Americans that they would provide a backstop.
US special envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Paris ahead of the summit and reports said he was due to meet Zelensky.
More than 40 months after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Putin has said this week that there is "a certain light at the end of the tunnel" and that "there are options for ensuring Ukraine's security in the event the conflict ends".
However, Russia has made clear that no Western forces should be deployed to Ukraine and it has insisted that it should be one of the countries acting as "guarantors" - an idea rejected by Kyiv and its allies.
Putin has also raised the unrealistic prospect of Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky coming to Moscow for talks.
Mark Rutte said on Thursday that Russia had no veto on Western troops being deployed to Ukraine: "Why are we interested in what Russia thinks about troops in Ukraine? It's a sovereign country. It's not for them to decide."
President Trump told CBS News on Wednesday that he remained committed to reaching a deal to end the war and said he continued to have a good relationship with both Putin and Zelensky.
"I think we're going to get it all straightened out," he said.
Watch: 'My job is to make sure Ukraine stays in the fight', says John Healey
UK Defence Secretary John Healey has praised Trump, who he says "brought Putin into talks" and "not closed off any options".
Ukraine is looking to the Coalition of the Willing to come up with a reassurance force involving British, French and other European troops. Germany has said it is too soon to make that kind of commitment.
The Russian leader, who spent Wednesday with China's Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, claims that his country's military is pushing forward on all fronts in Ukraine.
He warned that without a deal Moscow was prepared to "resolve all our tasks militarily".
While Ukraine and its allies say a ceasefire should be agreed initially, Russia has insisted its campaign will not end before a full peace deal.
The source at the Élysée Palace said it had already become clear that Russia had no intention of having a ceasefire as part of a peace deal.
The source pointed to the demarcation line between North and South Korea, where a ceasefire had lasted for years with a powerfully armed, allied American deployment serving as a signal to North Korea. That concept was extremely important for the Ukrainians, the source added.
National Emergency Management Agency, Nigeria, via REUTERS
Boats are a common means of transport in Nigeria (file photo)
At least 32 people have died in Nigeria's northern Niger state after a boat sank in a river, an official has told the BBC.
The reportedly overloaded boat, said to have been carrying about 100 passengers including women and children, capsized when it struck a submerged tree stump on the River Niger in the Borgu area on Wednesday morning.
Abdullahi Baba Ara, the spokesman of the National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) in the state, told BBC Hausa on Thursday that more than 50 other people had been rescued, with eight still missing.
Search operations are continuing.
Mr Ara said the government had set up a team of "water marshals" to stop boat operators from overloading their vessels and ensure passengers wear life jackets.
"Perhaps the water marshals were not on duty when this boat took off," he said, adding that investigations had started.
A local district head told the Reuters news agency that he had been at the scene soon after the accident.
"I was at the scene yesterday around 12 pm until 4 pm. The boat carried more than 100 people. We were able to recover 31 corpses from the river. The boat was also recovered and removed," Reuters quoted Sa'adu Inuwa Muhammad as saying.
Boat accidents are fairly common in Nigeria, often due to overloading, poor regulation and inadequate safety precautions.
In December last year, 54 bodies were recovered from the River Niger after a boat that may have been carrying more than 200 passengers capsized.
The government has made it mandatory for water travellers to always wear life jackets, but this is often not enforced.
In February, the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, set up a "Special Committee on the Prevention of Boat Mishaps in Nigeria", and in May the ministry announced that it would be distributing 42,000 life jackets across 12 riverine states in the country.
Later in the month, the National Inland Water Ways Authority (NIWA) kicked off a campaign they called "No Life Jacket, No Travel", and "No Night Travelling" in Niger and Kwara states where boat accidents have occurred regularly in the recent past.
Niger state is Nigeria's largest by land mass and people tend to travel a lot by water as it is often the fastest and cheapest means of getting around.
An investigation has been launched after a grandfather mistakenly took home the wrong child from a daycare centre in Sydney, Australia.
The man arrived to collect his grandchild from First Steps Learning Academy in the southern suburb of Bangor, on Monday afternoon.
But he accidentally took home a different child, who was asleep in a dark room.
The mistake only became clear when the mother of the child arrived at the centre to find that her one-year-old was not there, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
"I can't explain the feeling," she told the newspaper.
"They couldn't tell me his [the man's] name, they couldn't tell me who he was, they couldn't tell me who he was meant to pick up. They couldn't tell me what he looked like, apart from that he was wearing shorts and he was an older gentleman," the mother, who asked not to be named, explained.
As part of safety protocols, childcare centres do not allow children to be collected by anyone else except recognised parents, guardians or carers
But she also said the grandfather is not to blame.
"We are not angry with him. We are not upset at him – we blame the day care."
The grandfather's wife told the Sydney Morning Herald that her husband is "devastated" and has "owned the mistake".
"When he realised, he raced that child back so fast," she said.
First Steps told the BBC that the educator involved in the incident has been stood down.
"We sincerely apologise to the families directly involved in this deeply upsetting and isolated incident," nursery director Trisha Hastie said.
She added that has never happened before at any of First Steps' nurseries, and it has strengthened procedures to "ensure this never happens again".
An investigation is underway into the "deeply concerning and serious incident", the New South Wales Early Childhood Education and Care Regulatory Authority said.
The incident comes at a time of heightened awareness surrounding safety at Australia's childcare centres, and last month, new legislative changes were announced aimed at improving safety standards in the sector.
It was just after 18:00 on Wednesday when a carriage on Lisbon's famous Gloria funicular came around the bend of a steep cobblestoned street, crashed into a building, and crumpled, an eyewitness said.
"It hit a building with brutal force and collapsed like a cardboard box," Teresa d'Avó told Portuguese television channel SIC, adding it seemed like it "had no brakes".
Police are still investigating the cause of the crash, which killed at least 17 people and injured 20 more, some critically, near Lisbon's Avenida da Liberdade in the Portuguese capital.
Video verified by the BBC shows the crashed yellow-and-white train on the bend of a hill crumpled against the building, with another train stopped at the bottom. People are running up the incline towards the scene of the crash.
Helen Chow, who is from Canada and was visiting Lisbon, was at the base of the Gloria Hill, from where the trams ascend to the Bairro Alto district, when she said she heard a loud screech.
One tram "made a hard stop, I saw black debris, heard the passengers on that tram screaming…the driver rushed to open the gates to the entrance of the tram," she told the BBC.
"People jumped out of the window of that tram... just as this happened, I saw the incident tram crash over into the building next to the Subway restaurant."
"It was awful… the sound was unlike anything I ever heard," she added. "I am shaken."
Ms d'Avó told Portuguese newspaper Observador the vehicle was "out of control, without brakes".
"We all started running away because we thought [the carriage] was going to hit the one below," she said. "But it fell around the bend and crashed into a building."
Eric Packer, from the US but visiting Lisbon on holiday, told the BBC he had discussed with his friends taking the cable car and took pictures at 18:00 and 18:01, but decided to walk back to their hotel instead.
They walked about 60 metres and heard a loud crash noise "like a rock falling, like a dump truck had dropped a load of rocks" at 18:02.
They turned around to see dust coming out of the alley about 45 metres (148ft) behind them and walked back to see what happened. At first, he thought it was the train at the bottom that fell, until he turned and saw the other train that was above it, and realised "the magnitude of what had taken place".
His photograph shows the yellow-and-white train, a tangle of metal, on the corner of the narrow alley under a Subway restaurant sign, with the other train at the bottom of the hill below it.
"People (were) walking up and running up to try and help," he said. "Horrible tragedy and our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and survivors."
National Emergency Management Agency, Nigeria, via REUTERS
Boats are a common means of transport in Nigeria (file photo)
At least 32 people have died in Nigeria's northern Niger state after a boat sank in a river, an official has told the BBC.
The reportedly overloaded boat, said to have been carrying about 100 passengers including women and children, capsized when it struck a submerged tree stump on the River Niger in the Borgu area on Wednesday morning.
Abdullahi Baba Ara, the spokesman of the National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) in the state, told BBC Hausa on Thursday that more than 50 other people had been rescued, with eight still missing.
Search operations are continuing.
Mr Ara said the government had set up a team of "water marshals" to stop boat operators from overloading their vessels and ensure passengers wear life jackets.
"Perhaps the water marshals were not on duty when this boat took off," he said, adding that investigations had started.
A local district head told the Reuters news agency that he had been at the scene soon after the accident.
"I was at the scene yesterday around 12 pm until 4 pm. The boat carried more than 100 people. We were able to recover 31 corpses from the river. The boat was also recovered and removed," Reuters quoted Sa'adu Inuwa Muhammad as saying.
Boat accidents are fairly common in Nigeria, often due to overloading, poor regulation and inadequate safety precautions.
In December last year, 54 bodies were recovered from the River Niger after a boat that may have been carrying more than 200 passengers capsized.
The government has made it mandatory for water travellers to always wear life jackets, but this is often not enforced.
In February, the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, set up a "Special Committee on the Prevention of Boat Mishaps in Nigeria", and in May the ministry announced that it would be distributing 42,000 life jackets across 12 riverine states in the country.
Later in the month, the National Inland Water Ways Authority (NIWA) kicked off a campaign they called "No Life Jacket, No Travel", and "No Night Travelling" in Niger and Kwara states where boat accidents have occurred regularly in the recent past.
Niger state is Nigeria's largest by land mass and people tend to travel a lot by water as it is often the fastest and cheapest means of getting around.
Watch: Emergency crews surround derailed Portugal funicular
One of Lisbon's most iconic tourist attractions, the Gloria funicular, derailed and crashed on Wednesday evening.
At least 15 people have been killed and 18 more injured, some critically, local authorities have said.
It is not yet clear what caused the carriage to derail.
Here's everything we know so far:
What have authorities said?
The crash occurred at around 18:05 on Wednesday, near Lisbon's Avenida da Liberdade, according to local authorities.
More than 60 emergency service personnel and 22 vehicles were deployed to the scene.
Officials said it was too early to determine the cause of the incident. However, Portuguese newspaper Observador reported that a cable came loose along the railway's route, causing it to lose control and collide with a nearby building.
Images and footage from the scene the showed an overturned yellow carriage, which appeared almost entirely destroyed.
People could be seen fleeing the area on foot as smoke engulfed the cobbled street.
Portugal's emergency medical service authority said at least 15 people have been been killed and 18 others injured.
Five of those injured were in a serious condition, it said. The remaining thirteen, which included a child, sustained minor injuries.
Lisbon's mayor, Carlos Moedas, said the victims had been taken to hospital.
Some of those killed were foreign nationals, authorities said.
Several people trapped at the scene have since been freed, the medical authority said.
Who was onboard?
The Gloria funicular can carry up to 43 passengers and is extremely popular with tourists.
It is not known how many people were onboard at the time of the collision, however.
What is the Gloria funicular and how does it work?
EPA
A funicular is a type of railway system that allows travel up and down steep slopes.
In Lisbon, funiculars are among the most sought after tourist attractions. The bright yellow vehicles are a crucial means of navigating the city's steep, cobbled streets.
The Gloria funicular - the railway on which the collision took place - was opened in 1885 and electrified three decades later.
It travels some 275m (900ft) from Restauradores, a square in the centre of Lisbon, up to the picturesque streets of Bairro Alto. The journey takes just three minutes to complete.
Unlike traditional funiculars, the two cars on the Gloria funicular are powered by electric motors.
They are attached to opposite ends of a haulage cable meaning that as one travels downhill, its weight lifts the other, allowing them to ascend and descend simultaneously.
'Lisbon is in mourning'
Lisbon Mayor Carlos Moedas has declared three days of municipal mourning for the victims of the incident.
Posting on X, he said: "I extend my heartfelt condolences to all the families and friends of the victims. Lisbon is in mourning."
Spain's Prime Minster Pedro Sánchez said he was "appalled by the terrible accident".
"All our affection and solidarity with the families of the victims and with the Portuguese people in this difficult moment," he wrote in a statement on X.
Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said he "deeply regrets" the "fatalities and serious injuries" caused by the crash.
In a statement, he expressed his "condolences and solidarity with the families affected by this tragedy" and hoped for clarity around the incident from authorities soon.
Pedro Bogas from Carris, the Lisbon Tramways Company, told reporters it was a "very a sad day, not just for the victims but also for their families".
"We have strict protocols, excellent professionals for many years, and we need to get to the bottom of what happened," he added.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wrote on X: "It is with sadness that I learned of the derailment of the famous Elevador da Glória. My condolences to the families of the victims."
Donald Trump posted a video on social media showing a motor boat speeding across choppy waters before it bursts into flames.
President Donald Trump says the US has carried out a strike against a drug-carrying vessel in the southern Caribbean, killing 11 "Narcoterrorists".
He posted on social media that Tuesday's US military operation had targeted members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
Trump said the vessel was in international waters and was transporting illegal narcotics bound for the US.
The Trump administration has ratcheted up military and political pressure against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in recent weeks, including through a $50m (£37m) reward for information leading to his arrest on drug-trafficking charges. Maduro has vowed Venezuela would fight any attempted US military intervention.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump said that US forces had "shot out" a "drug-carrying boat" in the vicinity of Venezuela.
"A lot of drugs in that boat," he said.
Trump added he had been briefed on the incident by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Caine.
Later the president posted on his Truth Social platform: "Earlier this morning, on my Orders, US Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility."
He added: "The strike resulted in 11 terrorists killed in action. No US Forces were harmed in this strike. Please let this serve as notice to anybody even thinking about bringing drugs into the United States of America. BEWARE!"
His post was accompanied by a grainy aerial video showing a motor boat speeding across choppy waters before it bursts into flames.
In a social media post, Venezuela's Communications Minister, Freddy Nanez, suggested, without evidence, that the video shared by Trump was created with artificial intelligence.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a post on X that "today the US military conducted a lethal strike in the southern Carribean against a drug vessel which had departed from Venezuela and was being operated by a designated narco-terrorist organisation".
It is so far unclear what drugs the vessel was believed to have been carrying.
Since returning to the White House in January, the Trump administration has designated several drug-trafficking organisations and criminal groups in Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America as terrorist organisations.
Among them are Tren de Aragua and another Venezuelan group the "Cartel of the Suns", which US authorities allege is headed by President Maduro and other high-ranking government officials, some drawn from the country's military or intelligence services.
The US military has moved to bolster its forces in the southern Caribbean over the last two months, including through the deployment of additional naval vessels and thousands of US Marines and sailors.
The Trump administration has repeatedly signalled a willingness to use force to stem the flow of drugs into the US.
"There's more where that came from," Trump said of the strike on the vessel.
Venezuela's government has reacted angrily to the deployments.
On Monday, for example, Maduro vowed to "declare a republic in arms" if the US attacked, adding that the American deployments are "the greatest threat that has been seen on our continent in the last 100 years".
The UK and its allies stand ready to support Ukraine before negotiations to end the war as well as to secure an eventual peace deal, the UK defence secretary says.
On the eve of a top-level meeting in Paris, John Healey told the BBC in Kyiv that Ukraine's allies would "help make the skies safe, to make the seas safe, and to secure the land", once a peace deal had been struck.
But moments earlier, Russia's President Vladimir Putin had conveyed a defiant message from China, vowing that his full-scale invasion could continue.
Healey suggested there was bluster in Putin's words, insisting that Russia was under pressure. He also praised US President Donald Trump who he said had "brought Putin into talks" and "not closed off any options", despite widespread criticism of the warm welcome Trump gave the Russian leader last month in Alaska.
As late as Tuesday, Trump said he was "disappointed" in Putin, but he has said that before. He has also threatened to punish the Russian leader for the apparent refusal to end the war - or even meet Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky for peace talks.
When asked on Wednesday whether the war in Ukraine could end soon, Putin said "there is a certain light at the end of the tunnel".
"It seems to me that if common sense prevails, it will be possible to agree on an acceptable solution to end this conflict," he said, before threatening: "If not, then we will have to resolve all our tasks militarily."
He went on to list Russia's maximalist demands as usual - including for the authorities in Kyiv to end what he called discrimination against ethnic Russians - one of the allegations mentioned as a pretext for the full-scale invasion of the neighbour he launched in February 2022.
As for meeting Zelensky, Putin seemed to mock the very idea – which Trump had said he was ready for.
"I have never ruled out the possibility of such a meeting. But is there any point? Let's see," Putin said in Beijing.
Zelensky could always go to Moscow to see him, he said – a "knowingly unacceptable" idea, Ukraine's foreign minister was quick to point out.
Last week, France's President Emmanuel Macron suggested Putin was "playing" Trump.
But John Healey stressed that the US president "has not ruled out any further action, including economic measures, to put more pressure on Putin".
"We in the Coalition of the Willing, nations like the UK are willing to put extra economic pressure on Putin. We're willing to give extra aid to Ukraine so they can keep in the fight.
"It's why we've passed today £1bn ($1.24bn) of seized Russian assets, recycled into military aid and kit to Ukraine. If you like, Putin's dirty money returned with interest."
On Thursday, Macron will host a meeting of that so-called Coalition of the Willing - a grouping of allies of Ukraine, committed to enforcing any peace deal.
A source at the Élysée, Macron's office, has said the group are now ready to provide security guarantees for Ukraine, only waiting for US confirmation that it will act as the ultimate backstop.
The proposed deal includes continuing to train and supply Ukraine's own army.
It also envisages European troops being deployed to Ukraine - in unspecified numbers - to deter any future to Russian aggression - a signal that Ukraine can count on its allies "full solidarity and... commitment", the Élysée source said.
Such a deployment would need a ceasefire, the responsibility for which "falls to the Americans who are negotiating with the Russians".
John Healey refused to give details, despite being pressed, "because that will only make Putin wiser."
The German government is also playing down expectations of any big announcement at Thursday's meeting.
For the time being, like Italy and other coalition members, Berlin has ruled out sending soldiers to Ukraine to police any future peace on the ground.
A German government spokesman told the BBC that the priority for now was getting Russia to agree to a ceasefire - which Putin has consistently rejected.
President Trump pressed Putin for that during their summit in Alaska last month, then emerged to cite Putin's argument that finding a final deal would be a better way out of the the conflict.
Reuters
Instead of peace talks, Russia has intensified its attacks on Ukrainian cities
In the meantime, Russia's aerial attacks have intensified in both frequency and scale. On Wednesday night more than Russian 500 drones and 24 cruise missiles were launched at Ukraine.
Across the country, as civilians sheltered in basements or on the metro, the air defence guns went to work.
As usual, the government did not say whether any military targets were hit, but the impact for civilians is often devastating.
Last week, a Russian missile hit a block of flats in Kyiv killing 22 people, including four children, in one of the deadliest strikes since Russia's full-scale invasion.
There is now a heap of stuffed toys in the ruins, and photographs.
From shattered stairways, residents emerge with potted plants and bags of clothes covered in dust that somehow survived the strike. A few steps away, others stand and stare at the wreckage.
A teenage girl said she had left the bomb shelter that morning because it filled with smoke after the first missile hit. Then a second landed across the road and her sister was killed.
Ihor Maharynsky only survived because he was out of town that night. His wife, Natalia, was in their fifth-floor flat and didn't make it to the shelter. He had to identify her body in the mortuary.
"What kind of strategic target is there here?" he demanded, looking around at a car park and a technical college nearby. "There's nothing."
Right now, Ihor sees no prospect at all of peace with Russia.
And like many Ukrainians, he is furious at Donald Trump for rolling out the red carpet in Alaska last month for Vladimir Putin.
"Peace talks with Putin? With this ****?" Ihor wanted to know, with a string of expletives. "It is peaceful people who are dying."
Guyanese President Irfaan Ali claimed a second five-year term in office
Guyanese President Irfaan Ali has claimed a second five-year term in office, even as official final results from Monday's general election are yet to be published.
Ali's People's Progressive Party (PPP) secured at least 242,000 votes in the poll, claiming majorities in eight of the 10 districts in the South American country, according to Reuters news agency.
We Invest in Nationhood (WIN), a new political party founded just three months ago, came in second with around 109,000 votes.
Ali, 45, campaigned on a pledge to use the country's vast oil reserves, discovered in 2019, to improve infrastructure and reduce poverty, while navigating territorial tensions with neighbour Venezuela.
It is not yet clear how many seats each party will have in the 65-member parliament, but the current vice-president, Bharrat Jagdeo, told local media that the PPP would have a "bigger majority" than at the last election in 2020.
Despite a lower turnout than at the last election, the PPP appeared to have increased its vote share - while the long-term opposition A Partnership for National Unity trailed in third.
Much of this election centred on how parties would manage revenues from massive oil reserves discovered by the oil giant ExxonMobil in 2019.
Since 2019, the company says it has found billions of barrels' worth of oil in Guyanese waters and territory - causing the state budget to quadruple.
With a population of around 800,000, Guyana now has one of the highest levels of proven crude oil reserves per capita in the world - and is one of the region's fastest-growing economies.
But opposition parties say there is unfair distribution of oil earnings to groups connected to the PPP, accusations the ruling party denies.
Businessman Azruddin Mohamed, leader of the WIN party, alleged voting irregularities in Monday's election, even as he celebrated the party having "shaken the pillars of Guyana's political establishment".
Observers from the Organization of American States were deployed to Guyana for the election and have not yet reported any instances of electoral fraud.
The election came the day after Guyanese police said that a boat carrying election officials and ballot boxes was "shot at from the Venezuelan shore" - in the contested Essequibo region.
Venezuela denied being behind the incident - which came as the two countries are locked in a dispute over competing claims to the oil-rich region.
The UK and its allies stand ready to support Ukraine before negotiations to end the war as well as to secure an eventual peace deal, the UK defence secretary says.
On the eve of a top-level meeting in Paris, John Healey told the BBC in Kyiv that Ukraine's allies would "help make the skies safe, to make the seas safe, and to secure the land", once a peace deal had been struck.
But moments earlier, Russia's President Vladimir Putin had conveyed a defiant message from China, vowing that his full-scale invasion could continue.
Healey suggested there was bluster in Putin's words, insisting that Russia was under pressure. He also praised US President Donald Trump who he said had "brought Putin into talks" and "not closed off any options", despite widespread criticism of the warm welcome Trump gave the Russian leader last month in Alaska.
As late as Tuesday, Trump said he was "disappointed" in Putin, but he has said that before. He has also threatened to punish the Russian leader for the apparent refusal to end the war - or even meet Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky for peace talks.
When asked on Wednesday whether the war in Ukraine could end soon, Putin said "there is a certain light at the end of the tunnel".
"It seems to me that if common sense prevails, it will be possible to agree on an acceptable solution to end this conflict," he said, before threatening: "If not, then we will have to resolve all our tasks militarily."
He went on to list Russia's maximalist demands as usual - including for the authorities in Kyiv to end what he called discrimination against ethnic Russians - one of the allegations mentioned as a pretext for the full-scale invasion of the neighbour he launched in February 2022.
As for meeting Zelensky, Putin seemed to mock the very idea – which Trump had said he was ready for.
"I have never ruled out the possibility of such a meeting. But is there any point? Let's see," Putin said in Beijing.
Zelensky could always go to Moscow to see him, he said – a "knowingly unacceptable" idea, Ukraine's foreign minister was quick to point out.
Last week, France's President Emmanuel Macron suggested Putin was "playing" Trump.
But John Healey stressed that the US president "has not ruled out any further action, including economic measures, to put more pressure on Putin".
"We in the Coalition of the Willing, nations like the UK are willing to put extra economic pressure on Putin. We're willing to give extra aid to Ukraine so they can keep in the fight.
"It's why we've passed today £1bn ($1.24bn) of seized Russian assets, recycled into military aid and kit to Ukraine. If you like, Putin's dirty money returned with interest."
On Thursday, Macron will host a meeting of that so-called Coalition of the Willing - a grouping of allies of Ukraine, committed to enforcing any peace deal.
A source at the Élysée, Macron's office, has said the group are now ready to provide security guarantees for Ukraine, only waiting for US confirmation that it will act as the ultimate backstop.
The proposed deal includes continuing to train and supply Ukraine's own army.
It also envisages European troops being deployed to Ukraine - in unspecified numbers - to deter any future to Russian aggression - a signal that Ukraine can count on its allies "full solidarity and... commitment", the Élysée source said.
Such a deployment would need a ceasefire, the responsibility for which "falls to the Americans who are negotiating with the Russians".
John Healey refused to give details, despite being pressed, "because that will only make Putin wiser."
The German government is also playing down expectations of any big announcement at Thursday's meeting.
For the time being, like Italy and other coalition members, Berlin has ruled out sending soldiers to Ukraine to police any future peace on the ground.
A German government spokesman told the BBC that the priority for now was getting Russia to agree to a ceasefire - which Putin has consistently rejected.
President Trump pressed Putin for that during their summit in Alaska last month, then emerged to cite Putin's argument that finding a final deal would be a better way out of the the conflict.
Reuters
Instead of peace talks, Russia has intensified its attacks on Ukrainian cities
In the meantime, Russia's aerial attacks have intensified in both frequency and scale. On Wednesday night more than Russian 500 drones and 24 cruise missiles were launched at Ukraine.
Across the country, as civilians sheltered in basements or on the metro, the air defence guns went to work.
As usual, the government did not say whether any military targets were hit, but the impact for civilians is often devastating.
Last week, a Russian missile hit a block of flats in Kyiv killing 22 people, including four children, in one of the deadliest strikes since Russia's full-scale invasion.
There is now a heap of stuffed toys in the ruins, and photographs.
From shattered stairways, residents emerge with potted plants and bags of clothes covered in dust that somehow survived the strike. A few steps away, others stand and stare at the wreckage.
A teenage girl said she had left the bomb shelter that morning because it filled with smoke after the first missile hit. Then a second landed across the road and her sister was killed.
Ihor Maharynsky only survived because he was out of town that night. His wife, Natalia, was in their fifth-floor flat and didn't make it to the shelter. He had to identify her body in the mortuary.
"What kind of strategic target is there here?" he demanded, looking around at a car park and a technical college nearby. "There's nothing."
Right now, Ihor sees no prospect at all of peace with Russia.
And like many Ukrainians, he is furious at Donald Trump for rolling out the red carpet in Alaska last month for Vladimir Putin.
"Peace talks with Putin? With this ****?" Ihor wanted to know, with a string of expletives. "It is peaceful people who are dying."
All the players in Soyuz, the local Para ice hockey team, lost limbs fighting in Ukraine
At an ice rink in Vladivostok in Russia's far east, 30-year-old Dmitry Afanasyev is in training with teammates from Soyuz, the local Para ice hockey team.
The players have removed their prosthetic legs and are sitting in specially designed sleds. They're using their hockey sticks to propel themselves around the rink.
Dmitry hopes that one day he'll be a Paralympic ice hockey champion.
Making that happen won't be easy. Russian teams were banned from the last Paralympic Games over the war in Ukraine.
And like all his teammates, Dmitry was on the front line.
"A mine came flying towards me," recalls Dmitry, who was mobilised to fight in Ukraine. "I fell to the ground and could feel my leg burning. I looked down and everything was torn apart. I put on a tourniquet myself and told the guys to drag me out of there.
"My wife's a surgeon. So, I sent her a picture of my leg and she replied: 'They'll probably saw it off.' 'OK,' I said. Whether I have one leg, or two legs. Whatever."
The port city of Vladivostok is more than 4,000 miles from Ukraine and from Russia's capital. This is Asia. The border with North Korea is 80 miles from Vladivostok. China is just 35 miles away.
Yet the consequences of a distant war in Europe are more than visible.
At a cemetery on a hill overlooking Vladivostok there are lines of fresh graves: Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine. In addition to Orthodox Christian crosses, military banners and Russian tricolours mark each plot.
In another section of the cemetery stands a memorial "to the heroes of the Special Military Operation", the official label the Kremlin continues to employ for Russia's war on Ukraine. Here there are more graves of Russian servicemen and the statue of an armed Russian soldier.
"Soldiers live forever," reads the inscription.
On the orders of President Putin, Russian troops poured across the border with Ukraine in February 2022. The full-scale invasion of Russia's neighbour was widely seen as the Kremlin's attempt to force Ukraine back into Moscow's orbit.
More than three and a half years later the war rages on.
Even in Vladivostok, 4,000 miles from Ukraine, signs of Russia's ongoing invasion are everywhere
On air I'm often asked: what do the Russian people think about the war in Ukraine, about confrontation with the West, and about President Putin?
"What do Russians think?" is a difficult question to answer.
After all, Russia is so big and varied. The largest country in the world spans two continents and 11 time zones. Some parts of Russia, such as Kursk and Belgorod, border Ukraine.
Other Russian regions, like Primorsky Krai where I am now are a long way from the fighting. Vladivostok is its administrative centre.
This is the furthest I've travelled inside Russia since the start of the war. It's a chance to gauge the mood in a very different part of the country.
"Of course we're worried," Svetlana tells me in a Vladivostok park when I ask her about Ukraine. "This has been going on for years now and we want it to end as soon as possible. We had hoped the Alaska summit [of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin] would change something. It hasn't.
"People are people. No matter whether they're British or American, Japanese or Ukrainian. I don't know where all the hatred comes from."
I get chatting to Ilya, who claims that war in Ukraine hasn't fundamentally changed his life in Russia.
"You can still earn a living and get by here," Ilya says.
"The standard of living isn't rising, but it's not falling, either. Still, we hope that relations with other countries will improve and that we'll be re-integrated into the global space."
Svetlana says people wanted Putin's meeting with Donald Trump in Alaska to change something
In the centre of Vladivostok I stop to listen to a band busking on a pedestrian street. I'm not alone. A large crowd has gathered to enjoy the improvised rock concert.
Between songs I talk to the lead singer, a young local musician who calls himself Johnny London.
"Do people talk much about what's happening in Ukraine?" I enquire.
"People of my age, we don't usually discuss that stuff. Not very often. I would go as far as to say we never talk about that."
"Why?" I ask.
"We can do nothing about that. It's out of our hands, out of our reach. Hopefully in a couple of years it will get back to normal."
"And what is normal?"
"No war, I guess. That would be nice."
Local musician Johnny London says young people like him never talk about Russia's war on Ukraine
When I finish talking to Johnny London, a pensioner called Viktor walks up. He's recognised me. He saw me on TV last year at a press conference with Vladimir Putin.
"You asked Putin a question, didn't you?" Viktor says. "You're with the BBC."
Viktor's a big fan. Not of the BBC, but of President Putin. He criticises my "provocative question" to the Kremlin leader on the war in Ukraine, he defends Russia's political system and takes aim at the Biden administration over the 2016 US presidential election.
"With the help of mail-in ballots Biden practically stole the election from Trump," Viktor says.
"That's what Trump says," I point out.
"Not only. Putin says it too," retorts Viktor.
"Putin saying it doesn't make it fact," I suggest.
"True," concedes Viktor. "But that's what our people think."
Viktor also thinks that the West is losing power and influence.
"Look what's happening," says Viktor. "This week in China the leaders of India, China and Russia got together, and with many other countries too. But there was no Trump, no Britain, no Germany, no France. India and China alone are three billion people."
On his way back from China Vladimir Putin is stopping off in Vladivostok. Should I get the opportunity to ask the president another question, Viktor suggests it should be about the "new world order".
The city has been preparing for the Kremlin leader's visit and participation in the Eastern Economic Forum. By the side of the road that leads to the venue, street artist Filipp Dulmachenko has used 1,800 cans of aerosol paint to create a most unusual image.
The gigantic mural depicts Vladimir Putin in military fatigues hugging a Siberian tiger.
Filipp Dulmachenko used to get in trouble for his art - but this mural was officially approved
"The Amur tiger has always been a symbol of wildlife," Filipp says. "And Vladimir Putin is a symbol of Russia."
Filipp tells me that when he was a teenager he had run-ins with the police over his street art. But the Putin mural has been officially approved by the regional authorities.
And to accompany the picture the artist has spray-painted a short sentence: a phrase Filipp says is simply about sunrise in the Russian Far East.
Combined, though, with the images of a tiger and of a president who believes he's restoring Russian power, the words seem to take on deeper meaning:
Hundreds of thousands of welfare recipients were told to repay debts that did not exist
Hundreds of thousands of Australians forced to pay back welfare debts created by an illegal automated system have won the largest payout in the country's history.
Known as "Robodebt", the scheme wrongly told welfare recipients they had been overpaid and demanded they repay these debts, which often never existed.
In 2020, a successful class action resulted in a A$1.8bn (£876m; $1.2bn) settlement for victims of the scheme - some of whom took their own lives.
However, the group's lawyers appealed for more money after new evidence showed officials of the then-Liberal National coalition government knew the scheme was "unlawful" but continued anyway.
On Thursday, the current Labor government announced it would settle that claim, and hand an extra $475m over as compensation for the harms caused by the "illegal and immoral Robodebt scheme".
Another $13.5m has also been earmarked for legal costs and up to $60m to administer the compensation scheme.
"[It] is the just and fair thing to do," Attorney-General Michelle Rowland said, adding that it reflected the harm caused to thousands of vulnerable Australians under the "disastrous" scheme.
Lawyers for the class action said the extra compensation was "validation" for the victims.
"Today is also one more vindication of the principle that Australia remains a nation ruled by laws and not by kings - laws which even hold the government accountable," Peter Gordon told reporters, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
One of the victims, Felicity Button, told reporters it was a bittersweet moment, as some victims had lost family members, gone through divorce or become bankrupt.
"Irreparable mental health issues that have stemmed from this... we can never compensate for that."
It is estimated that more than 440,000 people were impacted by the illegal system, which ran from 2016 to 2019 under the conservative government of former prime minister Scott Morrison. It was aimed to save about $1.7bn.
A royal commission - Australia's most powerful form of public inquiry - into the scheme finished in mid-2023 and drew hundreds of public submissions.
It heard how the algorithm used to determine if someone had been overpaid was based on flawed calculations by averaging a person's fortnightly income.
This income figure was used to determine how much welfare was paid, but the calculation led to mistakes if a welfare recipient worked irregular hours from week to week.
The commission also unearthed new evidence that showed senior public servants who designed and ran the scheme knew it was unlawful.
This prompted lawyers handling the class action to appeal the original settlement, and demand further compensation due to "misfeasance in public office".
In total, the redress scheme amounts to about $2.4bn. This includes $1.76bn in debts that were wiped and and money given back to victims who paid false debts.
Thursday's announcement of an extra $475m in compensation is in addition to the $112m awarded in 2020, meaning a total of $587m.
The largest payout previously was $500m for survivors of the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria - Australia's worst-ever - which killed 173 people, according to Nine.
At least three people have been killed and 20 others injured after Lisbon's famous Gloria funicular cable railway derailed and crashed, emergency services said.
In an earlier statement, the head of Portugal's Civil Protection Authority said that several people remained trapped at the scene and two people were in a serious condition.
Portuguese newspaper Observador reported that a cable came loose along the railway's route, causing it to lose control and collide with a nearby building.
The incident happened near the Avenida da Liberdade around 18:05 on Wednesday evening.
Footage shared widely on social media showed the yellow funicular overturned and almost entirely destroyed.
People could be seen fleeing the area on foot as what appears to be smoke smoke filled the air.
The Gloria Funicular is one of the most famous sights and tourist attractions in Lisbon. It was opened in 1885 and electrified three decades later.
The United Arab Emirates has warned Israel that annexing the occupied West Bank would cross a "red line" and undermine the spirit of the Abraham Accords that normalised relations between the two countries.
A senior Emirati official, Lana Nusseibeh, said such a move would be the death knell of the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Palestinian Authority's foreign ministry said it welcomed the UAE's position.
The Israeli government has not commented. But Nusseibeh's remarks came after far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich unveiled a proposal for the annexation of approximately four-fifths of the West Bank.
Israel has built about 160 settlements housing 700,000 Jews since it occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem - land Palestinians want, along with Gaza, for a hoped-for future state - during the 1967 Middle East war. An estimated 3.3 million Palestinians live alongside them.
The settlements are illegal under international law.
Many ministers in his current right-wing and pro-settler governing coalition have long advocated annexing part or all of the West Bank. But they have reportedly been debating whether to advance such plans in response to recent announcements by the UK, France and a number of other countries that they intend to recognise the State of Palestine this month.
Netanyahu has said recognising statehood in the wake of the Hamas's attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, which triggered the war in Gaza, would amount to "a reward for terrorism".
The UAE is one of the 147 UN member states which already recognise the State of Palestine.
"From the very beginning, we viewed the [Abraham] Accords as a way to enable our continued support for the Palestinian people and their legitimate aspiration for an independent state," said Nusseibeh, the UAE foreign ministry's assistant minister for political affairs.
She added: "Annexation in the West Bank would constitute a red line for the UAE.
"It would severely undermine the vision and spirit of [the] Accords, end the pursuit of regional integration and would alter the widely shared consensus on what the trajectory of this conflict should be - two states living side by side in peace, prosperity and security."
Hours earlier, Smotrich - an ultranationalist leader and settler who has control over planning in the West Bank - told a news conference in Jerusalem that "the time has come" for annexation.
"The idea of dividing the country and establishing a terrorist state at its centre must be put off the table once and for all," he added.
He presented a map that he said showed a proposal from the defence ministry's settlement administration for "applying Israeli sovereignty" to approximately 82% of the territory, which he said was in line with the principle of "maximum land with minimum Arabs".
The remaining 18% of the territory was made up of isolated enclaves around six Palestinian cities - Jenin, Tulkarm, Nablus, Ramallah, Jericho and Hebron.
Bethlehem was among the many other Palestinian cities, towns and villages not included, while East Jerusalem was already annexed by Israel in 1980, in a move not recognised by the vast majority of the international community.
Smotrich said Palestinians would "continue to manage their own lives, in the immediate future in the same way that this is done today through the Palestinian Authority, and later through regional civilian management alternatives".
The PA, which governs areas of the West Bank not under full Israeli control, said Smotrich's plan constituted a "direct threat" to hopes for a Palestinian state.
Yehuda Shaul of the Ofek Centre, a think tank which campaigns to end Israel's occupation, reposted Smotrich's map on X and wrote: "Reminds me of another map in a different continent, from the 20th Century. There is a word in Afrikaans to describe that regime."
A number of international human rights groups have concluded that Israel is already operating an apartheid system in the West Bank - a characterisation that the Israeli government has rejected.
Last month, there was a wave of international outrage after the Israeli government approved plans unveiled by Smotrich for a major settlement project in the E1 area, which would effectively cut off the West Bank from East Jerusalem and divide the territory in two.
In 2024, the International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion saying that Israel's "continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is unlawful" and that the country was "under an obligation to bring to an end its unlawful presence... as rapidly as possible".
Netanyahu said at the time that the court had made a "decision of lies".
Portrait of a Lady, by Italian master Giuseppe Ghislandi, had been missing for 80 years before it was spotted last month on an estate agent's website, where a photo showed it hanging in a house that had belonged to Patricia Kadgien's late father, Friedrich Kadgien.
Kadgien senior was a top adviser to Hermann Goring, who plundered thousands of works from across Nazi-occupied Europe.
Patricia Kadgien and her husband were ordered to remain under house arrest for three days starting Monday, local media reported. They will be questioned for obstructing the investigation to locate the painting, according to a judicial official quoted in local media.
The pair are expected to face a hearing on Thursday, where they will likely be charged with "concealment of theft in the context of genocide", the official added.
The couple insist they are the rightful owners of the artwork, which they had inherited, according to Argentina's La Nacion newspaper.
The lawyer for Kadgien's daughter, Carlos Murias, told local newspaper La Capital that the pair would cooperate with the authorities. However, prosecutors on Tuesday said the artwork had not yet been handed over.
Four other properties were searched in the hunt for the painting, the prosecutor's office said.
During these searches, two paintings and a series of drawings and engravings from the 19th Century were found at the home of Ms Kadgien's sister, La Capital reported, and will be analysed to determine if they are items stolen during the war.
The painting first spotted online, Portrait of a Lady, was among the collection of Amsterdam art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, much of which was forcibly sold by the Nazis after his death. It is listed on a database of art stolen by the Nazis.
Peter Schouten of the Dutch Algemeen Dagblad (AD) newspaper, which broke the initial story about the long-lost artwork's reappearance, said there was evidence "the painting was removed shortly afterwards or after the media reports about it appeared".
"There's now a large rug with horses and some nature scenes hanging there, which police say looks like something else used to hang there."
Following the photo's appearance, one of the sisters told the Dutch paper she didn't know what they wanted from her, nor what painting they "are talking about".
Lawyers for Goudstikker's estate said they would make every effort to reclaim the painting.
Some of the works owned by Goudstikker were recovered in Germany after the war, and put on display in Amsterdam as part of the Dutch national collection.
His sole-surviving heir, daughter-in-law Marei von Saher, said her family "aims to bring back every single artwork robbed from Jacques' collection, and to restore his legacy".
According to AD, she took possession of 202 pieces in 2006.
Watch: Emergency crews surround derailed Portugal funicular
One of Lisbon's most iconic tourist attractions, the Gloria funicular, derailed and crashed on Wednesday evening.
At least 15 people have been killed and 18 more injured, some critically, local authorities have said.
It is not yet clear what caused the carriage to derail.
Here's everything we know so far:
What have authorities said?
The crash occurred at around 18:05 on Wednesday, near Lisbon's Avenida da Liberdade, according to local authorities.
More than 60 emergency service personnel and 22 vehicles were deployed to the scene.
Officials said it was too early to determine the cause of the incident. However, Portuguese newspaper Observador reported that a cable came loose along the railway's route, causing it to lose control and collide with a nearby building.
Images and footage from the scene the showed an overturned yellow carriage, which appeared almost entirely destroyed.
People could be seen fleeing the area on foot as smoke engulfed the cobbled street.
Portugal's emergency medical service authority said at least 15 people have been been killed and 18 others injured.
Five of those injured were in a serious condition, it said. The remaining thirteen, which included a child, sustained minor injuries.
Lisbon's mayor, Carlos Moedas, said the victims had been taken to hospital.
Some of those killed were foreign nationals, authorities said.
Several people trapped at the scene have since been freed, the medical authority said.
Who was onboard?
The Gloria funicular can carry up to 43 passengers and is extremely popular with tourists.
It is not known how many people were onboard at the time of the collision, however.
What is the Gloria funicular and how does it work?
EPA
A funicular is a type of railway system that allows travel up and down steep slopes.
In Lisbon, funiculars are among the most sought after tourist attractions. The bright yellow vehicles are a crucial means of navigating the city's steep, cobbled streets.
The Gloria funicular - the railway on which the collision took place - was opened in 1885 and electrified three decades later.
It travels some 275m (900ft) from Restauradores, a square in the centre of Lisbon, up to the picturesque streets of Bairro Alto. The journey takes just three minutes to complete.
Unlike traditional funiculars, the two cars on the Gloria funicular are powered by electric motors.
They are attached to opposite ends of a haulage cable meaning that as one travels downhill, its weight lifts the other, allowing them to ascend and descend simultaneously.
'Lisbon is in mourning'
Lisbon Mayor Carlos Moedas has declared three days of municipal mourning for the victims of the incident.
Posting on X, he said: "I extend my heartfelt condolences to all the families and friends of the victims. Lisbon is in mourning."
Spain's Prime Minster Pedro Sánchez said he was "appalled by the terrible accident".
"All our affection and solidarity with the families of the victims and with the Portuguese people in this difficult moment," he wrote in a statement on X.
Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said he "deeply regrets" the "fatalities and serious injuries" caused by the crash.
In a statement, he expressed his "condolences and solidarity with the families affected by this tragedy" and hoped for clarity around the incident from authorities soon.
Pedro Bogas from Carris, the Lisbon Tramways Company, told reporters it was a "very a sad day, not just for the victims but also for their families".
"We have strict protocols, excellent professionals for many years, and we need to get to the bottom of what happened," he added.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wrote on X: "It is with sadness that I learned of the derailment of the famous Elevador da Glória. My condolences to the families of the victims."
At least three people have been killed and 20 others injured after Lisbon's famous Gloria funicular cable railway derailed and crashed, emergency services said.
In an earlier statement, the head of Portugal's Civil Protection Authority said that several people remained trapped at the scene and two people were in a serious condition.
Portuguese newspaper Observador reported that a cable came loose along the railway's route, causing it to lose control and collide with a nearby building.
The incident happened near the Avenida da Liberdade around 18:05 on Wednesday evening.
Footage shared widely on social media showed the yellow funicular overturned and almost entirely destroyed.
People could be seen fleeing the area on foot as what appears to be smoke smoke filled the air.
The Gloria Funicular is one of the most famous sights and tourist attractions in Lisbon. It was opened in 1885 and electrified three decades later.
Watch: Epstein survivors speak publicly outside US Capitol
Victims of Jeffrey Epstein gave emotional accounts of sexual abuse on Wednesday, as they spoke on the steps of the US Capitol and called for lawmakers to release more files about the convicted sex offender.
One of the women, Lisa Phillips, said the group had begun compiling a confidential list of Epstein associates who they say were involved in abuse
"We will confidentially compile the names we all know were regularly in the Epstein world," she said. "It will be done by survivors, and for survivors."
The event was organised by US lawmakers who are calling for more files from the Epstein investigation to be released publicly.
During the two-hour news conference, nine female Epstein accusers detailed their experiences and abuse at the hands of the disgraced financier.
Ms Phillips urged the Department of Justice to release all the documents and information it has from the investigation, adding that many victims were afraid of repercussions if they went public with names themselves.
A lawyer for the accusers added that they are scared of being sued or attacked because "nobody protected them the first time".
Marina Lacerda, speaking publicly for the first time, said she worked for Epstein from the age of 14 until she was 17, when the disgraced financier determined she was "too old".
"I was one of dozens of girls that I personally know who were forced into Jeffrey's mansion... in New York City when we were just kids," she said.
"A friend of mine in the neighbourhood told me that I could make $300 to give another guy a massage," Lacerda said, while becoming visibly emotional. "It went from a dream job to the worst nightmare."
Annie Farmer, who is now 46, said she was taken to New Mexico aged 16 to spend a weekend with Epstein. Her sister was also flown there and reported the abuse, she said, but nothing was done.
"We still do not know why that report wasn't properly investigated, or why Epstein and his associates were allowed to harm hundreds, if not thousands, of other girls and young women," she said.
Chauntae Davies addressed a question about the relationship between Trump and Epstein, saying the sex offender's "biggest brag forever was that he was very good friends with Donald Trump".
"He had a framed picture of him on his desk, with the two of them," she said.
Watch: Epstein victim, Marina Lacerda, speaks publicly for the first time
Trump was a friend of Epstein, but said they fell out in the early 2000s because the financier poached employees from the spa in Trump's Florida golf club.
"This is a Democrat hoax that never ends," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday when asked about the nearby news conference.
He said "nobody is ever satisfied" with the files that have been released, adding that the call for more releases is a distraction from his record in office.
"Really I think it's enough," Trump said.
On Tuesday evening, 33,000 pages and several videos were made public by the House Oversight Committee, which has subpoenaed the Justice Department and Epstein estate. Most of those, however, were already in the public domain.
The top Democrat on the committee, Robert Garcia, said: "Don't let this fool you".
"After careful review, Oversight Democrats have found that 97% of the documents received from the Department of Justice were already public. There is no mention of any client list or anything that improves transparency or justice for victims," he said.
It is believed that the Department of Justice has about 100,000 pages of material on Epstein.
The release on Tuesday followed last month's publication of the US Department of Justice interview with Ghislaine Maxwell, who was an accomplice of Epstein.
In the transcripts - which run to 300 pages, some heavily redacted - Maxwell said that while she believed Trump and Epstein were friendly "in social settings", she didn't think they were close friends.
Two members of the House, Republican Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Democrat Ro Khanna of California, are trying to force a vote on compelling the justice department to release all documents in the case.
They were gathering signatures on Wednesday, with dozens of representatives agreeing to back the move. They will need 218 signatures to force a vote, meaning two Republicans would need to support it.
"It's shameful this has been called a hoax. This is not a hoax," Massie said. "There are real victims to this criminal enterprise and the perpetrators are being protected because they are rich and powerful."
The White House and Republican congressional leaders oppose the release of all of the files, saying that it could expose the identities of victims who do not want to go public.
Three-year-old Ibrahim al-Mabhuh is held by his grandmother after an Israeli strike in Gaza City killed his parents and two sisters
Israeli forces are intensifying their attacks on the outskirts of Gaza City, residents say, as the military steps up preparations for a ground offensive to conquer it.
Hospitals said women and children were among more than 30 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes in the city on Wednesday, most of them in the north and west.
The Israeli military's chief of staff vowed to "continue striking Hamas's centres of gravity until it is defeated" and its hostages freed.
The UN and aid groups said the Israeli operations were already having "horrific humanitarian consequences" for displaced families sheltering in the city, which is home to a million people and where a famine was declared last month.
Meanwhile, Israeli protesters took part in what they called a "day of disruption" to press their government to immediately agree a deal that would end the war in return for the release of all 48 Israeli and foreign hostages in Gaza, 20 of whom are believed to be alive.
Hospital officials said Israeli strikes and gunfire across the Gaza Strip had killed at least 46 people since midnight.
Gaza City's Shifa hospital said it had received the bodies of 21 people, including five killed when an Israeli warplane targeted an apartment in the western Fisherman's Port area.
One of the strikes killed the parents and two sisters of three-year-old Ibrahim al-Mabhuh, his grandmother said.
Umm Abu al-Abed Abu al-Jubein told Reuters news agency that she had found him buried underneath the rubble of a destroyed column in the home where the displaced family from the nearby town of Jabalia had been sheltering.
"He is the only one that God saved... We woke up to the boy screaming," she said.
First responders said Israeli drones also dropped incendiary bombs in the vicinity of a clinic overnight in the northern Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, where troops and tanks were reportedly advancing.
Videos posted on social media overnight appeared to a fire next to an ambulance inside the Sheikh Radwan Clinic's compound, and another ambulance ablaze on a nearby street.
Residents also told Reuters that Israeli forces dropped grenades on three schools in Sheikh Radwan being used as shelters for displaced families, setting tents ablaze, and detonated armoured vehicles laden with explosives to destroy homes in the east of the neighbourhood.
"Sheikh Radwan is being burnt upside-down. The occupation [Israel] destroyed houses, burnt tents, and drones played audio messages ordering people to leave the area," said Zakeya Sami, a 60-year-old mother of five.
The Israeli military said it was checking the reports.
During a visit to Gaza on Wednesday, the military's Chief of Staff, Lt Gen Eyal Zamir, told troops: "We have entered the second phase of Operation 'Gideon's Chariots' to fulfil the objectives of the war."
"Returning our hostages is both a moral and national mission. We will continue striking Hamas's centres of gravity until it is defeated."
Hamas denounced what it called the "operations of systematic destruction" by Israeli forces in Gaza City, saying they constituted "an unprecedented violation" of international law.
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Most of the 82,000 newly displaced people have headed to the crowded coast west of Gaza City
UN agencies and their humanitarian partners in the Gaza Site Management Cluster said the announcement of intensified Israeli military operations in Gaza City on 7 August was "having horrific humanitarian consequences for people in displacement sites, many of whom were earlier displaced from North Gaza [governorate]", which includes Jabalia.
They warned that many households were unable to move due to high costs and logistical challenges, as well as a lack of safe space. And they said forcing hundreds of thousands to move south could amount to forcible transfer under international law.
Since 14 August, more than 82,000 people had been newly displaced, according to the cluster. Most people moved towards the crowded coast. Only a third have left for southern Gaza, as the Israeli military has instructed.
The military has told them to head to the al-Mawasi area, saying medical care, water and food will be provided. However, the UN has the tent camps there are overcrowded and unsafe, and that southern hospitals are operating at several times their capacity.
On Tuesday, five children were killed while queuing for water at a tent camp in al-Mawasi. Witnesses said they were struck by an Israeli drone.
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Israelis demanding a deal to end the war and free the hostages climbed onto the roof of the National Library in Jerusalem
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Israel's intention to conquer all of Gaza after indirect talks with Hamas on a ceasefire and hostage release deal broke down in July.
The hostages' families fear the offensive will endanger those held in Gaza City and want the prime minister to instead negotiate an agreement that would secure their release.
Regional mediators have presented a proposal that would see 10 living hostages and the bodies of 18 dead hostages released during a 60-day truce. However, Netanyahu has said he will only accept a comprehensive deal that would see them all freed and Hamas disarmed.
On Wednesday, Israelis demanding an immediate deal set fire to tyres and rubbish bins and damaged parked cars in Jerusalem.
Thirteen were arrested after they climbed on the roof of the National Library and displayed a banner that said: "You have abandoned and also killed."
Some hostages' relatives addressed a large crowd near the prime minister's residence.
"My son Rom is dying, starving, and tortured. You can see in his eyes that he no longer wants to live. There is nothing harder a father can witness when he cannot do anything," he said, according to the Haaretz newspaper.
"How is it possible that a month after my son's video was released, showing the horrors there, the government leaves him there? And the prime minister wants to conquer more territory? I can't understand that."
US President Donald Trump, who helped broker the previous ceasefire and hostage release deal in January, wrote on social media: "Tell Hamas to IMMEDIATELY give back all 20 Hostages (Not 2 or 5 or 7!), and things will change rapidly. IT WILL END!"
The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.
At least 63,746 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since then, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.
The ministry also says 367 people, have so far died during the war as a result of malnutrition and starvation, including six over the past 24 hours.
Russia has rebuffed calls for a ceasefire as its troops advance in Ukraine
President Vladimir Putin has said Russia will achieve all its objectives by force if Ukraine does not agree to a deal.
"It seems to me that if common sense prevails, it will be possible to agree on an acceptable solution to end this conflict," Putin said. "If not, then we will have to resolve all our tasks militarily."
He praised the "sincere desire" by Donald Trump to find a solution – a day after the US president said he was "disappointed" in Putin, following Russia's attacks in Ukraine since their Alaska summit.
Trump has tried to persuade Putin to meet Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, but the Russian leader has not agreed to do so.
"I have never ruled out the possibility of such a meeting. But is there any point? Let's see," he said.
He added that any such meeting required preparation in advance to yield results, and that Zelensky could always go to Moscow to see him – a "knowingly unacceptable" idea, as Ukraine's foreign minister was quick to point out.
Ukraine's president has been highlighting Putin's refusal to meet as a way of urging Trump to impose sanctions on Russia and boost Ukraine's defences.
Russia launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbour in February 2022.
Putin was speaking in Beijing after attending a massive military parade hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The event - also attended by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and leaders of some 20 other countries - was seen as a challenge to the US-dominated global world order.
It did not go unnoticed by Trump who wrote on his social media platform: "Please give my warmest regards to Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un as you conspire against the United States of America."
Asked by a Russian state TV journalists whether the war in Ukraine could end soon, the Russian leader said "there is a certain light at the end of the tunnel".
But he went on to stress that Russia would not relinquish the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine his troops have seized.
The Russian leader repeated his demands for Ukraine not to seek to become a Nato member and to stop what he called discrimination against ethnic Russians – one of the allegations mentioned as a pretext for the invasion.
Putin hinted that security guarantees that Ukraine's Western allies have promised to provide Kyiv after a future peace deal would not relate to the Donbas areas whose inhabitants had opted to join Russia – a reference to widely-criticised votes held in the aftermath of the annexation.
Watch: BBC correspondent Katy Watson reports from scene of deadly Russian attack on Kyiv
On Thursday, the French president will host a meeting of the so-called Coalition of the Willing – a grouping of allies of Ukraine.
A source at the Élysée, Macron's office, has said the group want to secure American backing for a plan to press Russia to agree a ceasefire, with allies extending security guarantees to Ukraine immediately, rather than waiting for a peace deal.
President Trump pressed Putin for a ceasefire during their summit in Alaska last month, but then emerged from the talks saying the search for a peace deal would be a better way of ending the conflict.
Putin has rejected calls for a truce and his troops have intensified attacks on Ukrainian cities. More than Russian 500 drones and 24 cruise missiles were launched on Wednesday night alone.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin have been overheard discussing organ transplants as a means of prolonging life on the sidelines of a military parade in Beijing.
Putin suggested even eternal life could be achievable as a result of innovations in biotechnology, according to a translation of remarks caught on a hot mic.
The unguarded moment was captured on a livestream carried by Chinese state TV as the two leaders and North Korea's Kim Jong Un walked together through China's historic Tiananmen Square.
Xi and Putin have been in power for 13 and 25 years respectively. Neither has expressed any intention of stepping down.
Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the North Korean and Russian leaders, China's president used his Victory Day spectacle to project an alternate vision for the future of the world order.
However their private conversation suggests their sights extend beyond the economic and political.
The exchange was relayed by a Mandarin translator for Putin and a Russian translator for Xi, and has been translated into English by the BBC.
"In the past, it used to be rare for someone to be older than 70 and these days they say that at 70 one's still a child," Xi's translator could be heard saying in Russian.
An inaudible passage from Putin follows. His Mandarin translator then added: "With the development of biotechnology, human organs can be continuously transplanted, and people can live younger and younger, and even achieve immortality."
Xi's translator then said: "Predictions are, this century, there's a chance of also living to 150 [years old]."
Putin reportedly reprised his remarks later while speaking to Russian media.
Russian state news agency Tass quoted him as saying: "Modern recovery methods, medical methods, even surgical ones dealing with the replacement of organs, enable humanity to hope for active life to last longer than it does today.
"Average age is different in different countries but life expectancy will increase significantly".
Xi said the world faced a choice between peace and war as China unveiled a huge arsenal of weapons - including nuclear missiles with a global reach - to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two.
Wednesday's parade marked the first time that the Chinese, Russian and North Korean leaders had appeared together publicly, viewed by some observers as a message to the Western nations that have shunned them.
Putin and Kim joined 24 other dignitaries at the parade, including Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian, Pakistan's PM Shehbaz Sharif, Vietnam's Luong Cuong and Zimbabwe's Emmerson Mnangagwa.
China has sought to position itself as a possible counterweight to the US since the imposition of Donald Trump's tariffs.
On Wednesday, the US president accused Xi of conspiring against the US with the leaders of Russia and North Korea.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote: "Please give my warmest regards to Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un as you conspire against the United States of America."
At least three people have been killed and 20 others injured after Lisbon's famous Gloria funicular cable railway derailed and crashed, emergency services said.
In an earlier statement, the head of Portugal's Civil Protection Authority said that several people remained trapped at the scene and two people were in a serious condition.
Portuguese newspaper Observador reported that a cable came loose along the railway's route, causing it to lose control and collide with a nearby building.
The incident happened near the Avenida da Liberdade around 18:05 on Wednesday evening.
Footage shared widely on social media showed the yellow funicular overturned and almost entirely destroyed.
People could be seen fleeing the area on foot as what appears to be smoke smoke filled the air.
The Gloria Funicular is one of the most famous sights and tourist attractions in Lisbon. It was opened in 1885 and electrified three decades later.
Perry was found dead in a jacuzzi at his Los Angeles home in October 2023
A woman dubbed the "Ketamine Queen" has pleaded guilty to selling the drugs that ultimately killed Friends actor Matthew Perry.
Jasveen Sangha, 42, pleaded guilty to five charges in Los Angeles on Wednesday, including one count of distributing ketamine resulting in death or bodily injury.
The American-British dual-national originally faced nine criminal counts. Federal prosecutors called her Los Angeles home a "drug-selling emporium" and found dozens of vials of ketamine during a raid.
Perry was found dead in a jacuzzi at his Los Angeles home in October 2023, with an examination finding his death was caused by the acute effects of ketamine.
A sentencing hearing for Sangha, who is being held in federal custody, has been set for 10 December in Los Angeles.
Sangha initially denied the charges but agreed to change her plea in August, just weeks before she had been due to stand trial.
She is one of five people - including medical doctors and the actor's assistant - who US officials say supplied ketamine to Perry, exploiting his drug addiction for profit, and leading to his overdose death.
They include: Dr Salvador Plasencia and Dr Mark Chavez, two doctors who sold ketamine; Kenneth Iwamasa, who worked as Perry's live-in assistant and both helped purchase and inject the actor with ketamine; and Eric Fleming, who sold ketamine he'd gotten from Sangha to Perry.
The four others have also agreed to plead guilty to charges in the case. They will be sentenced at different times in November and December.
Sangha faces a maximum sentence of 65 years in federal prison, according to the justice department.
Ketamine is a dissociative anaesthetic that has some hallucinogenic effects, according to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). It can distort perception of sight and sound and makes the user feel disconnected and not in control.
It is used as an injectable anaesthetic for humans and animals because it makes patients feel detached from their pain and environment.
The substance is supposed to be administered only by a physician, officials say, and patients who have taken the drug should be monitored by a professional because of its possible harmful effects.
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Sangha is said to have mixed with celebrities socially, with one of her friends telling the Daily Mail she attended the Oscars
Perry's death and the investigation into how he obtained so much of the drug over multiple years offered a glimpse into Hollywood's ketamine drug network, which one doctor called the "wild west" in an interview with the BBC.
As part of her plea agreement, Sangha also pleaded guilty to selling ketamine to a man named Cody McLaury in August 2019, who died hours after the purchase from a drug overdose, according to the justice department.
Federal authorities accused Sangha of supplying ketamine from her "stash house" in North Hollywood since at least 2019, alleging in an indictment that she worked with celebrities and high-end clients.
More than 80 vials of ketamine were found there in a search before her arrest in March 2024, along with thousands of pills that included methamphetamine, cocaine and Xanax.
Sangha is said to have mixed with celebrities socially, with one of her friends telling the Daily Mail she attended the Golden Globes and the Oscars.
Her social media presence depicted an extravagant lifestyle, including parties and trips to Japan and Mexico.
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