Polls have closed in Brazil's general election, after voters queued in long lines for a tight first round of the presidential race.

After casting his ballot, 80-year-old left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva warned that the choice was between democracy and "barbarism".

His challenger, right-winger Flávio Bolsonaro, 45, said he wanted to "free the Brazilian people".

The result is forecast to be close. BBC Brazil's poll aggregator shows that the gap between Lula and Bolsonaro is only two points. If no candidate gets more than 50% of the vote, the election will go to a run-off on 25 October.

According to Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE), more than 158.7 million Brazilians, including one million people abroad, are eligible to vote in the election.

Lula is challenged by 11 candidates, although BBC Brazil's poll aggregator suggests that candidates other than Lula and Bolsonaro will get only about 10% of the vote.

The TSE has not set a fixed time for the release of the official results, but they are expected within hours because voting is electronic and in previous elections results have tended to come quickly.

A victory for Bolsonaro would extend a wave of wins across Latin America by right-wing candidates aligned with US President Donald Trump, while Lula's re-election would create problems for Washington, which has clashed with his government over trade and security.

The head of Yemen's internationally recognised government has announced it will wage an all out war in an effort to take all territory held by the Houthis.

It follows an exchange of strikes between the Houthis and the Saudi-led coalition in recent days.

The Iran-backed group said it had struck sites belonging to Saudi national oil company Aramco, in response to what it described as 50 Saudi-led coalition strikes in 12 hours. Saudi Arabia has yet to comment.

The Yemeni government's fierce statement was expected after the Houthis' offensive last month, which saw them seize control of the country's coastline, including the vital shipping lane of the Bab al-Mandab Strait.

US murderer Christa Pike remains critically ill in hospital and her prognosis is still unclear following her failed execution, her lawyer has said on Sunday.

Speaking to CNN on Sunday morning, Pike's lawyer Stephen Ferrell said doctors were still trying to clear two doses of pentobarbital from her body.

Pike, 50, was sentenced to death following her conviction for murdering Colleen Slemmer in 1995.

She survived two execution attempts on Wednesday, and was transferred to a hospital in Nashville, Tennessee.

Ferrell said: "She's still in the hospital, on a ventilator, critically ill, we really don't know the prognosis yet, and may not know for several days."

He didn't believe she had regained consciousness at any point, adding that he has been receiving updates through her medical power of attorney rather than consulting directly with doctors.

He has not been in to see her. "She is guarded. I'm not sure who may have seen her," he said.

Authorities have not yet said whether they will try again to execute Pike. They have also not offered an explanation for what went wrong. But Tennessee Governor Bill Lee suspended all executions for the rest of the year - and the head of prisons in the state said he would resign on Saturday.

"If she recovers - she may not fully recover - and there may be issues about her competence. I mean, we just don't know any of this," Ferrell said. "We have had no discussions about this. The Tennessee attorney general's office so far has not given us any indications of what their intentions will be."

Protesters have gathered in a south coast town as more than 100 people believed to be migrants were brought ashore after crossing the Channel in a small boat.

A number of people were seen arriving at a marina in Gosport, Hampshire, having been transported aboard two RNLI boats late on Sunday. Their dinghy appeared to have set off from near Utah Beach in Normandy during the morning, according to ship tracking data.

French media reported there were about 120 migrants on board.

Hampshire Police said it deployed officers to "support our partners in the event of an emergency at sea". The force imposed conditions under the Public Order Act as well as powers prohibiting the wearing of face coverings.

Conservative shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith is to outline his plans for the UK economy, including hopes to cut taxes, red tape and house-building costs.

Griffith and his colleagues will use day two of the party's conference in Birmingham to also explain how they would want to reduce food costs, support Heathrow Airport expansion and abolish Natural England and the Environment Agency.

Another prospective policy is replacing agreements designed to compel developers to fund community projects and services in areas they want to build.

Griffith will describe his approach as the "most ambitious deregulation project in a generation". Reform UK suggested the Tories were "copying our policies".

Griffith's speech comes after Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch published a 100-page document, external explaining her guiding principles and how her party would act should it return to government by winning the next general election.

Following their historic defeat in the 2024 general election, the Conservatives have been trying to rebuild and convince voters that they can be trusted again.

The Tories have faced repeated attacks from their opponents for their record in government, including on the economy, between 2010 and 2024.

Griffith is expected to say: "No-one else is coming to save our economy. Only we can inject reality, tell the hard truths and make this a country we are proud to hand on to the next generation."

He will accuse Prime Minister Andy Burnham of wanting to pursue a "socialist fever dream of the 1970s", adding the Tories want to deliver "cheaper homes, lower taxes, and less red tape".

Chancellor John Healey last week said all promises the government made would be "built on the rock of fiscal discipline" and the Budget on 28 October would "give families and businesses a bit of breathing space".

During a series of speeches on Monday, Conservative shadow ministers will continue to make their case and provide more details of their proposals.

This will include ditching environmental and energy efficiency regulations, including the future homes standard.

The Tories believe their changes could cut the cost of delivering a new home by up to £50,000, which in turn they expect could save money for buyers.

A single levy for developers would be implemented in place of section 106 agreements and the Community Infrastructure Levy, which fund projects in the community when building plans are progressed.

The Conservatives argue this new charge would remove delays and improve how the funds are spent to the benefit of residents.

The party has been critical of the roles of Natural England and the Environment Agency in relation to house building and flood prevention work respectively, and wants to abolish both. Their functions would be looked after by the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

The Extended Packaging Responsibility (EPR) scheme, which requires firms to cover the cost of collecting, recycling and disposing of packaging it produces, would also be scrapped by the Conservatives.

The party believes this would help lift a "burden" from businesses and in turn could cut the cost of the weekly shop.

On Heathrow, Griffith is expected to say the next Conservative government would do "whatever it takes to end the delays and boost capacity by backing the third runway".

Plans for expansion were scrapped by the Tory-led coalition government in 2010.

Former Chancellor Rachel Reeves championed the runway to boost the economy after Labour won power, although Burnham has refused to say whether he backs the project since becoming prime minister.

Burnham has described it as "principally... a matter for London and Londoners".

Liberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper said the Conservatives have "cemented their position as a pointless anti-growth anti-business party" by rejecting closer ties with Europe.

She added: "No-one can take anything the Conservatives say on the economy seriously given their litany of fantasy-land financial pledges."

Reform UK economy spokesman Robert Jenrick accused the Conservatives of "once again copying our policies".

He added the Tories were unable to match Reform's pledge to raise the tax-free personal allowance to £15,000.

Up to 500 schools across France will be partially or totally closed on Monday after clashes between riot police and student protesters in recent days, the French education minister said on Sunday.

Lessons will be "totally or partly suspended" in some "400 to 500" high schools as security conditions "have not been fulfilled", Édouard Geffray said.

He also said 24 schools had been "burned or ransacked" since the start of the protests.

Thousands of students have been demonstrating over education standards and the protests, which started last week, have spread from Paris to other cities, including Montpellier, Nantes and Marseille.

High school pupils and others have objected to a lack of teachers, overcrowded classrooms and run-down buildings.

On Friday, French Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin said 735 of France's 3,700 schools had been affected "one way or another" by violent protests.

The education minister warned the number of schools potentially affected on Monday could be comparable to Friday's figure but promised a "partial, progressive return to lessons".

"There are activists - particularly from the far-left - who have infiltrated the high school student movement, hijacked it from the students themselves, and engaged in extreme violence," Édouard Geffray claimed.

"Clearly, this poses a risk to both our staff and our students," he said. Geffray added that 78 staff members in education had been wounded, which he described as "something we have never seen before".

On Friday 1,747 people were arrested, according to French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez.

A 12-year-old girl was killed in Baltimore over the weekend during an apparent disagreement over a parking space, police in the US city said.

The girl was caught in the crossfire of bullets between two men who police said were allegedly fighting over a parking space in a park where children were playing American football.

In addition to the young girl, a woman was also found with gunshot wounds when police arrived on the scene. Two men also visited area hospitals for injuries believed to be related to the shooting, police said.

Police are now searching for at least two suspects, Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley said at a news conference. No arrests have been made.

"What we know is there was some type of argument between two cowards," Worley said. "They both opened fire on each other. In the crossfire, a 12-year-old little girl, who was probably down there watching football, was shot and killed."

Worley said the girl, who police have not named, was not a target of the shooting.

The girl was pronounced dead in hospital. The other three individuals who were injured have non-life-threatening injuries, Worley said.

The incident happened after 18:00 EDT (23:00 BST) on Saturday.

Authorities are still investigating the shooting and have asked any witnesses to bring information to police.

It remains unclear how many shots were fired, Worley said.

"Two grown men got into an argument, and now a 12-year-old is gone," Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said at the news conference.

"We never should have to say something like that. What happened out here today is one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen in my life."

Major bridges in Ukraine have been the target of Russian strikes over the past four days, as Moscow ramps up attacks in Ukraine's capital city.

The Pivnichnyi (Northern) Bridge, has been hit for the second day in a row, while the Pivdennyi (Southern) Bridge was hit multiple times earlier this week.

The latest attack came as German Chancellor Friedrich Merz made a visit to Kyiv on Sunday.

BBC Ukraine correspondent Dan Johnson is near one of the bridges that was targeted and explains what we know so far.

Even if a US invasion is extremely unlikely, Matthew Schmidt, an associate professor of national security at the University of New Haven in Connecticut, said the fact that Canadians were preparing was a sign of just how drastically the global order has shifted.

He added Canadian leaders do have hard questions to ask about how closely they want to continue working with the American military - a partnership that gives them valuable information should they want to harm Canada in any way.

"It's really doing harm to relationships with the United States, and there's a certain amount of legitimate fear," he said.

Americans might not take Trump's comments about making Canada the 51st state seriously, he said, but Canadians clearly do - and are prepared to defend themselves if needed.

So what would it be like if it happened?

The first phase of a war could be quite short.

According to the model used by the Canadian military, as reported on by the Globe and Mail newspaper earlier this year, a US attack would see Canada's strategic positions overwhelmed within a week

Its military would quickly be outnumbered, forcing Canadian forces to resort to guerilla-type warfare to try to suppress their enemy.

Allied nations like France and Britain would be called on to provide support and defence for Canada, the newspaper reported in January, citing senior government officials.

The theoretical model is believed to be the first time in a century that Canada planned for an American assault.

The modelling is on the lighter end of military combat planning, Coates said.

He said that Canada, unlike its Nato allies, was lagging behind when it came to having a response plan in place in the event of any ground invasion, and that it was now playing catch-up in this era of unpredictable geopolitics.

Part of that, he said, was made evident by a recent call by Canada's defence chief to drastically increase the size of its military, including the addition of as many as 300,000 lightly trained citizen soldiers.

An invasion of Canada might not be straightforward from the US point of view either.

Even with its outsized military, the US would have a difficult time getting buy-in for a fight with Canada, said Schmidt.

"I think you would have a large number of American officers who would resign if given the order to invade Canada," he said.

"They would see it as an illegal and immoral order."

Schmidt said Canadian soldiers and American soldiers routinely train together, and share a mutual respect.

But in the unlikely scenario that relations would deteriorate to the point of combat, Schmidt said the US would likely focus on acquiring valuable Canadian resources like oil and minerals, and political decapitation.

"You would see a a kind of operation that would mirror perhaps what you saw in Venezuela," he said, referring to US military action earlier this year to capture former Venezuelan President Maduro.

Although he acknowledged the US has greater military capacity, he said that "pound for pound" Canadian soldiers would be able to put up a fight.

A US Marine has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman's body was found in a hotel in Okinawa, Japan, local officials say.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi described the crime as a "brutal and heinous" robbery and murder. She said she had urged the US to "enforce stricter discipline" of its personnel.

Japan's public broadcaster NHK identified the victim as Yagi Anna, 39, and the suspect as Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, who is stationed at US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.

"We are actively cooperating with Japanese authorities, in response to allegations of serious criminal actions by a Marine," the Marine Corps said on social media, extending condolences to the victim's family.

Japanese Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said the woman's body was discovered early Saturday morning in a hotel in Naha City, the capital of the Okinawa prefecture.

"Such an incident is utterly inexcusable and fills me with strong indignation," Koizumi wrote on social media, adding that "incidents and accidents involving U.S. military personnel cause significant anxiety to the local community and must never occur".

The US Embassy in Tokyo said that it was fully cooperating with the Japanese government and local police. Japan's foreign ministry said it summoned US ambassador George Glass to discuss the incident on Sunday.

Okinawa is home to several US military bases and tens of thousands of American troops.

Okinawa Governor Genta Koja says the prefecture has repeatedly demanded that the US take action to prevent such incidents, and said he sees the alleged crime as a sign of a lack of discipline.

"The fact that this kind of event has happened again leaves us no choice but to conclude that the US military's efforts in maintaining discipline, educating personnel, and other such measures are completely ineffective," he said.

Elfyn Evans became Britain's first world rally champion for 25 years after rival Oliver Solberg crashed in a highly dramatic finish to the season in Italy.

Sweden's Solberg was on course to snatch the lead on the final stage of the last round of the World Rally Championship, and thereby deny Evans the title.

But Solberg lost control of his car with a few hundred metres to go in the Rally Italia Sardegna, which meant the glory went to Welshman Evans, a five-time runner-up in the championship.

"It hasn't sunk in," said a shocked Evans.

"I was sure it was over. I feel for Oliver - he had an incredible weekend. I don't know what to say."

The 37-year-old and co-driver Scott Martin had led for much of the 2026 season and took a 21-point advantage into the final round in Sardinia.

But that gap had shrunk to a solitary point by the time the drivers lined up for the last of 17 stages, bringing back painful memories of previous narrow misses for Evans.

Solberg, 25, needed only to beat his Toyota team-mate in the final stage to claim enough bonuses to be champion, but he crashed two corners from the finish.

Evans becomes only the third British man to win the WRC title after Colin McRae in 1995 and Richard Burns in 2001.

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Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton likened the effects of a software bug that affected multiple cars before the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia to a "Lego race".

The problem led to several cars, including those of the two multiple world champions who were sharing the front row of the grid, not working in the wet conditions that preceded the race.

A tropical downpour delayed attempts to get the grand prix under way for the best part of an hour. And when the cars set off on formation laps behind a safety car to test the conditions, audiences were treated to the bizarre sight of many of them struggling to move.

A bug in the software that mandates how the engines' electrical power can be used in wet conditions had been triggered by a combination of low engine speeds, low grip and specific aspects of the circuit layout.

Verstappen, who went on to take a dominant win that was his first victory of the year, said: "These engines are so complicated and a lot of software is implemented.

"I triggered [the problem] first and then I looked in my mirror, I was like, 'Wait, are they waiting for me or what's going [on]...?' It was like the Lego race."

Verstappen was referring to a show run in battery-powered Lego F1 cars that was held before the British Grand Prix in July.

Hamilton, sitting beside Verstappen in the post-race news conference after finishing third, interjected to say: "Yeah, we had the same speed. I had to stop on track and stop the car and engine and restart it. I've never done that before."

Verstappen added: "It was insane. Like, it's the Lego power. At some point we were five-wide on the straight because we couldn't understand what was going on.

"Then we did a lap and then I see eight other cars crawling still, and I saw you (Hamilton) by yourself crawling. That's not what you want, right, for the sport."

Mercedes driver George Russell, who retired from the race with an engine failure, said: "It didn't feel very F1."

Nikolas Tombazis, the single-seater director for governing body the FIA said there would be a full investigation.

The issue arose, he added, because, while the software had been tested, it had not been tested in these specific conditions. Largely because there has been so little running in the wet this year.

"Cars are complicated," Tombazis said. "We would all like it to be simpler, but when you have electrical energy and combustion energy all working together, and obviously when you want to ensure that there's sporting fairness between the teams, that is complicated.

"We haven't done a full debrief of the situation and see how we can avoid such an issue. Every race, we have a long debrief afterwards, where we identify criticalities.

"Obviously, that was a major criticality, and we need to make sure we avoid it. Can I guarantee it will never happen again? This specific problem, yes. A problem, no, but we will do our best to avoid it, of course."

This is far from the first issue created by the huge complexity of the latest hybrid engines introduced this year, with their near 50-50 split between internal combustion and electrical power.

Because the engines are fundamentally energy starved, and so cannot deploy their full combined power output at all times, a series of complexities were added into the management of the engines to try to sticking-plaster solutions.

Many of these led to the counter-intuitive driving about which many of the sport's stars have been complaining all season - and more changes have been added since.

Off-track conversation has been dominated by this all year, and rules are changing for next year to alter the energy split to try to ameliorate the issue.

McLaren team principal Andrea Stella said: "What happened at the start obviously is not ideal in terms of presentation of the sport.

"But at the same time it is the first year of new regulations, quite complex from a regulatory point of view, and it was also the first time we started in such conditions.

"So we have to concede that F1 has done an excellent job in making some new regulations that came with some question marks from a power-unit behaviour point of view when it came to racing for instance.

"We have to acknowledge there has been really good work to make the show and racing work, and if there are some glitches occasionally, we have to accept they are glitches for everyone, be supportive and make sure it doesn't happen again."

The problem had a secondary consequence - the field order was jumbled up, and one reading of the rules could have meant the grid order should change for any restart.

But while the FIA's software engineers were rewriting the code as fast as possible, it was determined that, as this situation had never occurred before, and as the problem was out of any competitor's control, the most appropriate order was to revert to the original grid.

Mercedes deputy team principal Bradley Lord said: "If you think of the millions of people watching around the world, they tune in for the start and suddenly the cars are all in a jumbled up order because of something that happened 40 minutes earlier and it was behind a safety car on a formation lap. That would have been a much harder thing to explain than resetting and then going from where we did."

World number two Luke Humphries ended a 16-month wait for a PDC major trophy with a stunning 6-4 victory over Gerwyn Price in the World Grand Prix final.

Humphries, 31, was at the top of the sport two years ago but has found his dominance superseded by Luke Littler and had failed to taste major success since winning the Premier League in May 2025.

A ranking title had eluded him since claiming the Masters in February last year, but he showed his class and an abundance of character to lift the title at the unique 'double-in, double-out' tournament in Leicester.

The second seed, who was in a record-breaking fourth successive World Grand Prix final, trailed Price 3-0 but won four sets on the spin to take control.

Price levelled but Humphries broke in the deciding leg of set five and then won three straight legs to be crowned champion.

It is his second World Grand Prix title, adding to his 2023 success that started his march to becoming world number one.

The victory ensures he retains his number two ranking from the Netherlands' Gian van Veen.

"It's kind of like I needed this to give me a bit of confidence," Humphries told Sky Sports.

"It's been a torrid 15 or 18 months, losing so many major finals. I felt like I had not much to give tonight."

Defeat for Price means his four-year wait for a major PDC title continues, while he has now lost five successive major finals, including three this year.

Craig Bellamy suggested the new four-match international window had counted against Wales after Sunday's Nations League defeat against Denmark.

His side failed to build on Thursday's win over Norway as they were deservedly beaten thanks to a second-half Rasmus Hojlund penalty.

It was a third loss in four games played inside 10 days as part of the newly elongated international break.

Head coach Bellamy said his injury-hit squad paid the price for the heavy workload he feels benefits the bigger nations and "puts a real stress" on countries like Wales.

"Physically, I completely agree with the ones who don't like [the new window]. It makes no sense," he added.

"Four games at this type of level… for the other nations, we know who they are because I was in the room when they all voted for it.

"I was one of the ones who wasn't [voting for it], because we know it's a complete disadvantage to us."

It is only five matches into the Women's Super League season and Arsenal are already 10 points behind leaders Manchester City - so is manager Renee Slegers' position at risk?

The Gunners have won just two of their opening seven matches in all competitions and sit 10th in the WSL table.

It is dismal reading for Arsenal fans, whose optimism has quickly diminished and their 4-2 defeat at City on Sunday added further salt to their wounds.

The Gunners have not won a WSL title since 2019 and it has been a familiar story each year as slow starts have ultimately proven costly.

Slegers did lead Arsenal to the Women's Champions League title in 2025. But they failed to win any domestic trophies last season, although they did finish second in the WSL and reached the semi-finals in the defence of their European crown.

Asked if she was worried about her position, Slegers said: "All I know so far is that the last couple of days we have been together as a club, and a team.

"We have been aligned in the direction. Of course, this result is disappointing but I'm here and I'm full of energy. I care a lot for the club and the players. I see perspective.

"It's good to have an international break coming up. It's good for the players to change environment, play their football elsewhere, then come back in with new energy."

Once upon a time, tickets for NFL games in London were like gold dust.

All 43 games have been near capacity at Wembley, Twickenham and Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

According to the NFL, its UK fanbase has swelled to 18.6 million, with 4.5 million of those considered 'avid' fans.

So in the build-up to this year's London series, why were thousands of tickets still available for two of the three games?

Next week's clash between the Philadelphia Eagles and Jacksonville Jaguars at Tottenham sold out in hours.

But the crowd for Sunday's game at Tottenham between Washington Commanders and Indianapolis Colts only reached 60,907 after ticket prices were slashed, and large sections remain unsold for the Wembley game on 18 October.

The NFL is playing a record nine regular-season games abroad this season but 19 years after the first London game, has the NFL reached a saturation point in the UK?

The US has withdrawn all of its bombers from RAF Fairford, the British military base at the centre of an incident being investigated by counter terror police.

A statement from a US department official confirmed on Sunday it had removed all of its bombers from the base back to their home stations in America.

The US did not give a reason for the withdrawal, but it follows a major incident on 27 September when police were alerted to three "suspicious vehicles" near the airbase in Gloucestershire.

Five men were initially arrested on suspicion of terror offences near the base and subsequently released on police bail. A sixth man, a UK-Iranian national, was also later arrested and released on bail.

Whitehall sources have not disputed the decision from Washington was in response to the incident at RAF Fairford.

The BBC has also been told it was a military rather than a political decision - taken at an operational level - and communicated from the US military to its British counterparts.

The UK's Ministry of Defence has not commented.

Days after the incident, Prime Minister Andy Burnham said there were "strong indications" that Iran had played a part in the incident but did not provide further details. Tehran has strongly denied any involvement.

Initially, five men aged between 23 and 25 were arrested in the early hours of the morning after vehicles were reported to be travelling towards the base operated by the US Air Force (USAF). All five were UK nationals from London.

They were arrested on suspicion of explosives offences and later on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act, before being released on bail in what police called an "investigative decision" that was "grounded in experience and strategy".

The sixth man, aged 25, was arrested in London on Thursday on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts. Counter terror police confirmed on Saturday he had also been released on bail.

RAF Fairford has been used as a forward operating location by the US Air Force (USAF) for decades.

In recent months, US bombers have taken off from the base for the Middle East, after the UK approved a US request to use it for defensive strikes on Iran.

In July, Iran said "any base used for aggression against Iranian territory constitutes a legitimate target for our forces".

Days after the incident, and before the arrest of the sixth man, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Fox News that it "clearly involve[d] the hands of a foreign actor".

Rubio did not provide further details - saying at the time he was limited on what he could say on air.

US President Donald Trump separately said he was "surprised" the five men had been released on bail.

"We know everything about them, we would not have released them," he said, adding that the UK had worked with the US "very closely" on this.

Green Party members have adopted a motion declaring Zionism a form of racism, in a move that has divided senior figures at the top of the party.

The party's joint deputy leaders have been at odds over the subject, with Mothin Ali backing the move, and Rachel Millward describing the wording as "problematic".

Activists endorsed the policy motion, which was put forward by a group of members at the party's conference in Brighton, by 1022 votes to 813.

Discussion about the vote has dominated the conference, and exposed divisions between the party's newly enlarged membership base under leader Zack Polanski and its MPs elected at the last election.

The motion adopted by Green members defines Zionism as an ideology in support of "an ethnonationalist Jewish state" and backs a "single democratic Palestinian state in all of historic Palestine".

"The real, material, manifestation of Zionism has been the historic and ongoing dehumanisation, displacement, dispossession, disenfranchisement and destruction of Palestinians," it says.

It has attracted criticism from some Jewish groups, including the Board of Deputies and the Jewish Leadership Council who wrote a letter to the party ahead of the vote.

In a statement on Sunday evening, the organisations called the motion an "attack on the Jewish community".

"Zionism is anti-racism, creating a refuge for Jews in their ancient homeland after millennia of persecution outside it," it said.

"Branding most British Jews and Jewish institutions 'racist' stokes anti-Jewish hatred after a year in which British Jews have been murdered attending their synagogue, stabbed in the streets, and seen their community buildings firebombed."

Israel's Foreign Ministry said the motion went beyond "the boundaries of legitimate political debate" and was "a stain on the history of the United Kingdom".

Later on Sunday, it said Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar had banned Polanski from entering Israel in response.

Debate about the motion, as well as the conflict in Gaza, has featured heavily during the conference, which is taking place after a surge in its membership in the wake of Polanski's election as leader in September last year.

Speaking after the vote, Lubna Speitan, the Green member behind the motion, argued its backers wanted to voice opposition to "racist systems of oppression".

"We stand united against all forms of racism and discrimination - no exemptions," she added.

Polanski himself did not vote in the debate, having left the conference early to campaign in Holborn and St Pancras, where he is standing to be the MP. A full list of candidates in the contest can be found here.