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1. French Open draw LIVE: Novak Djokovic and Jannik Sinner discover first round opponents

   The men’s defending champion Carlos Alcaraz has withdrawn through injury with Sinner tipped to complete a career grand slam

2. NHS staff who accessed medical records of Nottingham stabbing attack victims sacked

   Students Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, and grandfather Ian Coates, were killed in a stabbing rampage by Valdo Calocane on 13 June 2023

3. Train strikes and EU entry-exit delays spark fears of bank holiday travel chaos

   Roads to coastal resorts and Premier League venues are likely to be congested

4. Queen Elizabeth pushed for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to get trade role - and he wasn’t vetted, bombshell files show

   Royal preferred to go to ‘sophisticated countries’ as UK trade envoy – and refused to attend ‘golf functions’

5. Netanyahu issues rare rebuke to far-right Israeli minister over video taunting handcuffed Gaza flotilla activists

   Itamar Ben-Gvir is facing global backlash after releasing clips making fun of detained activists who tried to breach a blockade of Gaza

6. Cost of living support latest: Reeves to announce measures to cut food costs and drive down household prices

   Health experts have warned that reducing the costs of unhealthy foods could have ‘unintended consequences’

7. Residents told to shelter as Lativa issues drone alert and scrambles NATO fighter jets

   A NATO fighter jet shot down a suspected Ukrainian drone over neighbouring Estonia

8. Use of asylum hotels falls to new low as net migration also plummets

9. Fifa to ban pre-revolutionary Iran flag at World Cup in United States

   The pre-revolutionary flag has been used by Iranians, in the US and worldwide, as a symbol of protest and standing against the current regime

10. ‘Dirty deal’: Trump bailed himself out of IRS trouble and got a $1.8B ‘slush fund’ for allies. Legal experts sound the alarm

    Anyone cutting checks to Trump’s allies or throwing out tax investigations should start lawyering up, experts tell Alex Woodward