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Flurry of shuttle diplomacy under way at UN-led negotiations in UAE as countries fight over wording of potential deal.

Israel has intensified attacks on Khan Younis, which was dubbed a safe zone in the initial days of the war.

CAIRO: A Jordanian border guard was killed and another was wounded during clashes on Tuesday with dozens of drug smugglers along the country's northern border with Syria, a military source quoted by Petra News Agency said.  The Jordanian Armed Forces source said the smugglers were trying to bring into Jordan “a substantial quantity of narcotics from Syria” while taking advantage of fog and low visibility, the statement said.  “During the exchange, Officer Iyad Abdel Hamid Naimi of the Border Guard forces was fatally shot,” it added. 

Moscow is 'very attentively' watching as US President Joe Biden and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy meet in Washington.

Rounded up by Israeli forces in Gaza City, Palestinians describe being stripped, blindfolded, numbered and tortured

UNITED NATIONS: The Palestinians are hoping that a vote Tuesday in the UN General Assembly on a nonbinding resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire will demonstrate widespread global support for ending the Israel-Hamas war, now in its third month. After the United States vetoed a resolution in the Security Council on Friday demanding a humanitarian ceasefire, Arab and Islamic nations called for an emergency session of the 193-member General Assembly on Tuesday afternoon to vote on a resolution making the same demand.

Explosives-packed vehicle is rammed into station used by army as a base in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and fighters open fire.