1. Nine EU countries have called on the European Commission to come up with proposals on how to discontinue EU trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian Territories.

2. US would strike North Korea with nuclear weaponsif Pyongyang launched a nuclear attack against South Korea.

3. Australia has evacuated a small number of citizens from Israel, and New Zealand embassy staff have left Iran.

4. Israel struck a key Iranian nuclear siteand Iranian missiles hit an Israeli hospital. Oil prices surged.

5. European Union governments have reached an agreement on a $1.73 billion EU scheme to fund defence investments.

6. Apple is interested in tapping generative artificial intelligence to help speed up the design of the custom chips at the heart of its devices.