1. Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader killed in Iran, was the tough-talking face of the Palestinian group's international diplomacy.
2. Protesters took to the streets across Venezuela, demanding that President Nicolas Maduro acknowledge he lost Sunday's election to the opposition.
3. Soldiers and rescuers are working in the hills of India's Kerala state, a day after 166 people were killed in monsoon landslides.
4. Ukraine's air force said it repelled one of Russia's largest long-range drone attacks of the war overnight, shooting down all 89 drones launched at Kyiv.
5. The Biden administration plans to expand US powers to stop exports of semiconductor manufacturing equipment from some foreign countries to Chinese chipmakers.
6. Microsoft said it would spend more money this fiscal year to build out AI infrastructure even as growth slowed in its cloud business.