UNITED STATES: Public health campaigner Abdul El‑Sayed has won the Democratic nomination for Michigan’s US Senate election, overcoming more than $60 million (£45m) in campaign spending in support of his opponent Haley Stevens, mostly from pro‑Israel groups. 

The Associated Press called the narrow contest yesterday , more than 12 hours after polls closed, with Mr El-Sayed holding a 1 per cent lead.

The result is a significant blow to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which spent more than $30m (£22m) to help Ms Stevens. Mr El‑Sayed will now face former Republican congressman Mike Rogers in November.

GERMANY: A Hamburg court convicted and sentenced seven members and one supporter of far-right group Last Defence Wave to imprisonment today on charges including attempted murder, arson and aggravated assault . 

The defendants, aged between 14 and 21 at the time of the offences, were tried under juvenile criminal law and received sentences ranging from one and a half to five years. 

They were found to have planned and carried out attacks on asylum-seeker shelters and left‑wing facilities, as well as engaging in so‑called “paedo‑hunting.”

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: World Health Organisation director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus arrived in Congo today as aid workers said the world’s fastest‑growing Ebola outbreak is spreading at an “alarming” rate. 

The outbreak has reached 3,874 confirmed cases, including 1,751 deaths, with a 45 per cent fatality rate, and no approved treatment or vaccine exists for the Bundibugyo virus behind it. 

With some health workers on strike over lack of pay, Doctors Without Borders said the response was still not reaching communities quickly enough to break transmission chains.

PALESTINE: Large crowds turned out in Gaza City for the mass funeral of 12 people, mostly women and children, killed in an Israeli strike on a block of flats in late 2023. 

The bodies, belonging to two extended families, have only recently been recovered from under the rubble in a two‑week‑long operation. 

Forty‑four children, 38 women and seven people with disabilities were listed among the dead.