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Israel has agreed to a daily four-hour humanitarian pause in northern Gaza.
The White House announced the move on Thursday, saying the pauses would begin immediately.
This comes after weeks of fighting, which has left more than 10,000 people dead in Gaza.
Some 1,400 Israelis have been killed and more than 200 people taken hostage after an attack on October 7.
Sally Patterson reports.
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Lawyers for Steve Bannon — senior adviser to Donald Trump during his Presidency — are in court in Washington DC today trying to overturn a prison sentence handed down to him for his refusal to cooperate with a subpoena.
He was given four months behind bars for defying a request from the Congressional committee investigating the deadly January 6th attack on the US Capitol, during which a riotous mob stormed the heart of American democracy in a bid to overturn the 2020 election result.
Benji Hyer reports.
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http://www.fsnradionews.com/feeds/1109Indiacriminallawmakers-pb.mp3Ahead of India's national elections next year, the country's Supreme Court has asked courts in the country to prioritise trials against lawmakers accused of serious crimes.
India has one of the highest number of lawmakers with criminal cases registered against them in the world.
Priyata Brajabasi reports from New Delhi.
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French President Emmanuel Macron has urged countries to strive for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
His comments came as he opened an international humanitarian aid conference on Gaza in the French capital.
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Pablo Gutierrez reports from Budapest,
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Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu will attend the Saudi-Africa summit in Riyadh this week to attract foreign direct investment to Africa's largest economy and mobilise capital to build needed infrastructure.
He will also attend the Arab African summit, both scheduled to hold on November 10 and 11, 2023.
The President has embarked on what has been described as the country's boldest reforms in decades which have been praised by investors.
Correspondent Ajeck Mangut reports.
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For the seventh straight day, India's capital city remains shrouded in a thick layer of toxic smog.
With pollution levels showing no signs of dipping, for the first time the city-state's government plans to deploy artificial rain to help clear the air.
Priyata Brajabasi has more from New Delhi
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India's top anti-terror body has arrested 44 people in its latest crackdown on illegal migration.
The National Investigation Agency alleges that the accused were trafficking migrants from Bangladesh.
Ishan Garg has more from New Delhi.
IN: The National Investigation...CUE: And while America and Europe battle IN-flation, China is suffering from DE-flation. The prices paid by consumers in October were one-fifth of one per cent lower than a year earlier… that's twice-as-bad as expected. Here's Andrew Wood in Hong Kong to explain why deflation is bad for China's weak economic recovery.
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