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Israeli air strikes targeted Syria's defence ministry in Damascus in what Benjamin Netanyahu said is a campaign to protect Syria's Druze minority. Fighting between Druze and Bedouin tribes escalated sharply after government forces became involved in recent days. The Syrian government has rejected Israel's framing of the conflict, with one adviser telling us Israel is weighing in on the side of a single Druze faction. The US has now brokered a ceasefire to end the sectarian fighting.

The government has suspended four Labour MPs and penalised three others over repeated breaches of party discipline. A Labour select committee chair tells us many MPs will be "in a state of shock" at the move, but added it was important to support the government.

And there's been a major medical breakthrough that will give hope to hundreds of women in the UK who are carriers of a devastating and often fatal genetic illness. Eight children have been born free of mitochondrial disease, which is incurable, through a new technique pioneered by UK scientists which uses genetic material from three people. The new method combines the egg and sperm from a mother and father with a second egg from a donor.