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I'm Jackie Leonard and in the early hours hours of Sunday the 29th of June, these are our main stories.

Iran has held a major state funeral in Tehran for senior Iranian military commanders and nuclear scientists,

assassinated by Israel earlier this month.

Israel's military says it's killed one of the founding members of Hamas in Gaza,

and hundreds of thousands of people have defied a ban by the Hungarian government

to take part in an LGBT pride march in the capital Budapest.

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Iran's president has thanked Iranians for attending Saturday's state funeral in Tehran

for the top commanders and nuclear scientists assassinated in Israeli strikes earlier this month.

Masoud Pesachian said the voice of our unity reached the world.

Mourners dressed in black appeared both grief-stricken and

defiant, chanting slogans, waving Iranian flags, and they held portraits of the 60 who were killed.

The country's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei did not attend the funeral. His absence is

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