Telegram boss and founder Pavel Durov has been placed under formal investigation in France as part of a probe into organised crime on the messaging app, Paris prosecutors say.

Mr Durov, 39, has not been remanded in custody, but placed under judicial supervision, and has to pay a €5m (£4.2m; $5.6m) deposit.

The Russian-born billionaire, who is also a French national, also has to show up at a French police station twice a week and is not allowed to leave French territory.

Mr Durov was first detained upon arrival at Le Bourget airport north of Paris last Saturday under a warrant for offences related to the app.

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Ukrainian troops have remained in Russia’s western Kursk region as its surprise cross-border offensive into Russia came to the end of a fourth day.

The Russian defence ministry said it was “continuing to repel” Ukraine’s military, which it claimed had lost more than 280 personnel in the past 24 hours - a figure that has not been independently verified.

Reports suggest that Ukrainian troops are operating more than 10km (six miles) inside Russia - the deepest cross-border advance by Kyiv since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

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Israel has carried out what “it called large-scale" air strikes on Yemen, targeting what it described as “military targets of the Houthi terrorist regime”. Power stations and a port were hit in Ras Isa and Hudaydah.

The strikes came as Israel carried out more attacks across Lebanon, and Hezbollah fired more rockets into northern Israel. Israel has again targeted the Beirut suburb of Dahieh, the Hezbollah stronghold where its leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed by Israeli bombing. Israel is now claiming that 20 other senior leaders of the militia were also killed.

Lebanon’s prime minister has said that as many as a million people may now have been displaced by the bombing campaign, as people flee north in search of safety.

There have been more warnings that the escalating conflict risks turning into a full-scale regional war, involving Iran which backs Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen.

Anna Foster in Beirut presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Jon Donnison, Orla Guerin and Frank Gardner.

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UK-donated Challenger 2 tanks have been used by Ukraine as part of its surprise incursion into Russia, a UK source has confirmed.

The Ministry of Defence is not officially commenting on what specific UK weapons are being used by Ukraine.

However, following Kyiv's incursion into Russian territory the department reiterated that Ukraine had "a clear right" to use UK-supplied weapons for "self defence against Russia's illegal attacks".

The UK is one of the biggest donors of military aid to Ukraine, behind the US and Germany.

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Thirteen people including a child have been killed in an Israeli air strike near the main government hospital in southern Beirut, the Lebanese health ministry says.

It was among 13 air strikes that hit south Beirut on Monday evening. The Israeli military said it was attacking facilities linked to Hezbollah.

Elsewhere in the Middle East, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Israel is continuing to prevent humanitarian missions from reaching northern Gaza with critical supplies, including food and medicine.

The Israeli military has been intensifying a weeks-long offensive in parts of northern Gaza against what it said were Hamas fighters who had regrouped there.

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Nasa has given an update on two American astronauts who are stuck on the International Space Station (ISS), Astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry 'Butch' Wilmore, who launched into space on 5 June for a mission expected to last eight days - they've been in space for more than two months.

The spacecraft that took them there - Boeing's Starliner – has faced technical issues which has halted their return to Earth.

Nasa officials have said the duo could be in orbit for eight months if they can't return on the Starliner.

The Starliner is still the contingency vehicle if the astronauts need to return to Earth, Nasa officials said. The astronauts could return on SpaceX's Dragon, however, Nasa said this could pose other risks.


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At least 205 people have died following heavy flooding in Spain, authorities say, as rescue efforts continue

In the Valencia region, at least 202 people have died and a temporary morgue has been set-up in a convention centre, with a local mayor warning many more bodies may yet be found.

Two people were also confirmed dead in the Castilla La Mancha region, and another in Andalusia

Large numbers of people have been seen out in the streets helping with the clean-up effort in Valencia and the military has also been brought in

The state meteorological agency says adverse weather conditions will continue over the weekend

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Millions of people in Florida are rushing to leave their homes, as Hurricane Milton races towards the state's west coast.

Milton, a category five storm, is expected to hit the Tampa area tonight, packing ferocious winds of up to 165mph (270km/h).

US President Joe Biden warned that leaving was a matter of “life and death”, as the state undertakes its largest evacuation effort in years

It comes less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene hit the Gulf Coast as a category four storm, killing at least 225 people across Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina.

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The head of Israel’s army has told troops that extensive air strikes in Lebanon targeting the armed group Hezbollah may pave the way for them to “enter enemy territory”.

The remarks by Lt Gen Halevi are the plainest indication yet from a senior figure that a ground invasion of Lebanon may be imminent.

Lt Gen Halevi said troops would "destroy the enemy" and its infrastructure. “We keep striking and hitting them everywhere,” he told soldiers from the 7th Brigade taking part in an exercise on Israel’s northern border. “The goal is very clear - to safely return the residents of the north. To achieve that, we are preparing the process of a manoeuvre, which means your military boots... will enter enemy territory.”

More than 90,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon in the last three days, according to the United Nations as Israel carried out another wave of "extensive" airstrikes in southern Lebanon.

51 people were killed in the latest Israeli attacks according to Lebanon’s health ministry. Around 500 were reported to have been killed yesterday.

Israel said it had intercepted a ballistic missile fired by the Hezbollah militia group towards Tel Aviv. It’s the first such rocket attack on the Israeli city. Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, says it is resisting Israeli aggression and acting in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

Anna Foster presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Paul Adams in northern Israel, Orla Guerin in Tyre and Jeremy Bowen in Jerusalem.

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