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A day of mourning has been declared in Ukraine's capital Kyiv after the second biggest aerial attack of the war so far killed at least 23 people, including four children.

The city's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said it was to honour the dead, as a massive recovery effort continues at the five-storey block of flats where 22 of the 23 were killed.

Ukrainian forces said Russia had fired almost 600 drones and more than 30 ballistic and cruise missiles.

The attack has been widely condemned - the White House said US President Donald Trump was "not happy" but not surprised, while European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Russia would "stop at nothing to terrorise Ukraine".

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Today, Adam Fleming discusses the US Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook suing President Donald Trump after he attempted to fire her.

President Trump claims she made false statements on her mortgage, and says he has the authority to remove her. Cook has said there is "no cause exists under the law" to sack her. At the same time Trump is in another public dispute with the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. How will both battles end? Adam speaks to BBC chief presenter Caitriona Perry in Washington.

Adam is also joined by Sir Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats who is boycotting President Trump’s UK state banquet in protest of Trump and Keir Starmer’s position on the escalating situation in Gaza.

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The attacker who opened fire on pupils as they were praying at a church in Minneapolis was "obsessed with the idea of killing children", US officials have said.

Robin Westman, who killed two children and injured 18 others, did not seem to have any specific motive, according to Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara.

The attacker "appeared to hate all of us", the chief said on Thursday, adding: "More than anything, the shooter wanted to kill children".

The murdered children have been identified by family as Fletcher Merkel, eight, and Harper Moyski, 10.

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A record one million hectares have burned across the European Union so far this year, making it the worst wildfire season since records began in 2006.

Spain and Portugal have been hit especially hard, with roughly 1% of the entire Iberian Peninsula scorched, according to EU scientists.

The worsening fire season in the Mediterranean has been linked directly to climate change in a separate study by the World Weather Attribution group at Imperial College London.

Experts warn that more frequent and severe fires across Europe are likely to continue in the future.

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After multiple civilian casualties in the latest sustained Russian airstrikes on Kyiv, Russia's ambassador to the UK was summoned by the Foreign Office in protest. But will these attacks have any bearing on western attempts to broker a peace deal?

To examine the fallout, Jamie Coomarasamy and Vitaly Shevchenko are joined by BBC Ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse and BBC Verify’s Olga Robinson. They also discuss Vladimir Putin’s legitimacy under the Russian constitution, Poland’s place in the conflict, and whether China could take a more prominent diplomatic role as Russia's president prepares to travel to Beijing.

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Bipin Joshi, a 23-year-old Nepalese agriculture student was kidnapped by Hamas and taken to Gaza on October 7.

Bipin’s sister has now made her first public speech pleading for her brother's release.

Puspa last spoke to her brother on October 6, and their family have not heard anything about his condition of his health or wellbeing since being captured.

Speaking in Tel Aviv earlier this month, she said her brother was caught up in a war he had no side in.

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Two women who reported being drugged and raped by prolific sex offender Zhenhao Zou said they were attacked within 24 hours of each other, the BBC has established.

The first woman who says she was raped told us she was shocked to learn about the second attack and had since felt guilt for not reporting her rape sooner.

Metropolitan Police detectives investigating Zou's offences initially questioned whether the two women might be the same person, because the two attacks sounded identical and happened in such a short space of time.

This timing showed Zou was confident, a source familiar with the investigation told the BBC World Service. "He was getting away with it, so he wanted to do it more and more," they said.

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A shooting at a school in Minneapolis that left two children dead and 17 others injured is being investigated as an anti-Catholic hate crime, the FBI said.

"The FBI is investigating this shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics," FBI Director Kash Patel said in a post on X.

The two children, aged eight and 10, were killed when an attacker opened fire through the windows of the city's Annunciation Church on Wednesday morning as children were celebrating Mass.

Authorities have not yet released a suspected motive for the attack.

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Three children are among at least 14 people killed in Russian strikes on Ukraine's capital Kyiv, officials have said.

Tymur Tkachenko, the head of Kyiv's military administration, said the children were aged two, 14 and 17.

Dozens more are injured, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky, who accuses Moscow of choosing "ballistics instead of the negotiating table".

Meanwhile, Russia's ministry of defence says it intercepted 102 Ukrainian drones overnight.

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Today, the U.S. hit India with steep 50% tariffs as Donald Trump moves to penalize the country for buying oil and weapons from Russia.

The new tariffs are some of the highest globally and include a 25% fee targeting deals that help fund Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Adam is joined by James Landale, Diplomatic Correspondent for BBC News and Caitriona Perry, Chief Presenter BBC News in Washington, to unpack three stories from the Trump administration: increasing import tariffs on India, the meeting about Gaza and secret operations in Greenland.

And Adam talks to Nick Thomas-Symonds, the minister for EU relations, who delivered a speech in Westminster setting out how he would improve trade terms between the UK and EU, a day after the Reform leader Nigel Farage vowed to tear up the EU deal.

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