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Hamas has transferred the bodies of four Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in Gaza in the first release of dead hostages since the ceasefire began.

Hamas says the dead include three members of the Bibas family - Shiri and her young children Kfir and Ariel, who were aged nine months and four years when Hamas kidnapped them during the 7 October 2023 attack.

The fourth body is Oded Lifschitz, 84, a retired journalist and veteran peace activist, said Hamas.

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Donald Trump has accused Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky of being “a dictator without elections” in a further deterioration in relations between the two leaders.

President Trump’s comments on social media followed a false claim that Ukraine had started the war with Russia, along with demands for the country to give the US rights to half its valuable mineral resources.

In response President Zelensky accused Donald Trump of living in a Russian-made “disinformation space” and called on Mr Trump’s team “to be more truthful”.

The "dictator" attack from Donald Trump led to criticism from European leaders. The German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said "it is simply wrong and dangerous to deny President Zelensky his democratic legitimacy". The British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer also gave his backing in a phone call to the Ukrainian president in which he "expressed his support for Volodymr Zelensky as Ukraine's democratically elected leader".

Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by James Waterhouse, James Landale and Jeremy Bowen.

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Today, we look at what looks like an increasingly hostile relationship between US President Trump and Ukraine President Zelensky.

In a press conference on Monday evening, President Donald Trump has appeared to accuse Ukraine of being responsible for the war with Russia. In response President Zelensky has accused Trump of living in “disinformation space”.

Adam Fleming is joined in the studio by the former United Kingdom armed forces minister, and Conservative MP, James Heappey for an in depth interview on the state of the negotiations, and how we got here.

Plus, the Treasury has warned of a “bumpy” road to lower inflation after an unexpected jump to 3%. Adam and Alex Forsyth speak to Claer Barret, Consumer Editor of the Financial Times and host of the Money Clinic podcast.

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A huge sinkhole in a street in Surrey, UK, is continuing to grow and swallow up more road, with the county council declaring a major incident.

The original hole first appeared in the street late on Monday night, growing to at least 65ft (20m) long by Tuesday lunchtime.

A second opening has now appeared, with a car teetering on the brink and the owner unable to move it.

Families have been evacuated from their homes over fears of an explosion caused by exposed cables, with one resident saying the street now "sounded like a waterfall".

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Argentine President Javier Milei has denied promoting a newly launched cryptocurrency which collapsed shortly after he mentioned it in a social media post on Friday.

The cryptocoin $Libra quickly rose in value before nosediving, causing severe losses for the majority of people who had invested in it.

A judge will now determine if the president should face fraud charges over the incident.

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Two months after the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, families are still searching for their missing loved ones.

Human rights organisations estimate more than 100,000 Syrians have disappeared since the uprising began in 2011.

It is estimated that more than 3,000 children are among the missing.

The BBC found evidence that some children who were detained with their families were transferred to orphanages by the regime.

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President Donald Trump has described Volodymyr Zelensky as a “dictator” after the Ukrainian president said the US leader had been taken in by "Russian disinformation".

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has said it would be a pleasure to hold a meeting with President Trump.

This come after talks between Russian and US officials in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh, on Tuesday, in which Kyiv was excluded.

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Elon Musk said he was determined to drive through US president Donald Trump’s money saving policies despite what he described as almost “total opposition” in Washington.

The billionaire defended the role of Doge, the non-governmental agency which he is in charge of.

The two men gave their first joint interview since Trump took office last month to Fox News.

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The US and Russia have been holding high-level talks in Saudi Arabia for the first time in years.

General Sir Richard Shirreff, a former Nato commander, said that US President Trump’s plans for Ukraine are “in cloud cuckoo land”.

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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer told EU leaders in Paris that he would consider deploying UK troops to Ukraine in the event of a lasting peace agreement.

Meanwhile, the US and Russia have been holding talks in Saudi Arabia aimed at ending the war, but Ukraine was not invited.

A full-scale Russian invasion sparked the war in Ukraine almost three years ago, eight years after it unilaterally annexed Crimea.

The BBC’s Analysis Editor Ros Atkins has been looking at what that would mean.

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