- Gaza’s Ministry of Health has said that 29 people were killed in Gaza in the past 24 hours as reports emerge that five Palestinian journalists were among those killed.
- The “continuous cycle” of mass displacement of civilians in Gaza and people being in “survival mode” and “despair” must stop, the director of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, has said.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that gaps remain between parties after Israel’s Mossad chief left Doha following a meeting with mediators over Gaza ceasefire talks, adding that the talks will resume next week.
- At least 38,098 people have been killed and 87,705 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from the Hamas-led attacks is estimated at 1,139 with dozens of people still held captive in Gaza.
Israel bombs northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp
Israeli forces have bombed the Qurum area in Jabalia, northern Gaza, leaving unidentified number of “dead and wounded”, according to Palestinian media.
We will update you with more information when it becomes available.
Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian wins Iran presidential election
Victory reflects deep dissatisfaction with direction of country and could bring greater cooperation with west
The reformist Masoud Pezeshkian has pulled off a stunning victory in the Iranian presidential runoff, reflecting deep dissatisfaction with the direction of the country in recent years and opening potential new avenues of cooperation with the west.
Pezeshkian won 16,384,403 votes to defeat the ultra-conservative Saeed Jalili, who received 13,538,179 votes, on a final turnout of 49.8% – a big increase on the record low turnout of 39% recorded in the first round. In the first round, Pezeshkian came top, defeating three Conservative rivals. The turnout included more than 1m invalid votes.
France: Why a former left-wing district now votes far right
France votes in the second round of the election on Sunday with the far-right National Rally widely expected to come out on top. Even those in former left-wing strongholds are now choosing the far right.
The Cher department in central France used to be a stronghold of the left.
During World War II, it was one of the heartlands of the French resistance fighters known as maquisards. France was at the time partly occupied by Nazi Germany, while the rest of the country was under the rule of French general Philippe Petain, whose Vichy government was collaborating with the Nazis.
Since the 1950s, several provincial towns of the Cher, such as Vierzon, even voted in the Communist Party.
As the Dalai Lama turns 89, exiled Tibetans fear a future without him
By Charlotte Greenfield and Sunil Kataria
In a monastery beneath snow-capped mountains in northern India, the Buddhist monk entrusted with protecting the Dalai Lama and foretelling his people's future is concerned.
The Dalai Lama turns 89 on Saturday and China insists it will choose his successor as Tibet's chief spiritual leader. That has the Medium of Tibet's Chief State Oracle contemplating what might come next.
"His Holiness is the fourteenth Dalai Lama, then there will be a fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth," the medium, known as the Nechung, said. "In countries, leaders change, and then that story is over. But in Tibet it works differently."
Japan’s aging society is transforming the baby care business
By Rosa de Acosta, CNN
The world’s population is getting older in what the United Nations calls an “irreversible global trend,” driven by longer lives and smaller families.
The number of people aged 65 and older is expected to more than double to 1.6 billion globally by 2050, according to a UN report published last year.
In Japan, this change is threatening one of the world’s largest economies as the percentage of older people grows and fewer couples have children.
Junta chiefs 'turn their backs' on West Africa bloc
By Damian Zane, BBC News
Niger's military leader, speaking alongside the junta chiefs from Mali and Burkina Faso, has said they are "irrevocably" turning their backs on the wider West African bloc, Ecowas.
The three men are meeting together for the first time to cement an alliance created in the face of opposition from neighbouring countries.
Soldiers took power in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger in a series of coups from 2020 to 2023.
All three countries – which now form the Alliance of Sahel States - have been affected by jihadist violence, in part a reason given for the army takeovers.
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