#BREAKING UN chief, opening Mideast session, warns of 'uncontainable' crisis
#UPDATE UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday pleaded for an immediate end to deadly Israeli-Palestinian violence, warning a Security Council meeting that the fighting could plunge the region into an "uncontainable" crisis u.afp.com/Ue3U
#VIDEO Israeli strikes killed 42 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip Sunday, the worst daily death toll yet in the almost week-long clashes, as the UN Security Council met amid global alarm at the escalating conflict u.afp.com/Ue3c
#VIDEO UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was "dismayed" by civilian casualties in Gaza and "deeply disturbed" by Israel's strike on the tower housing the Associated Press and Al Jazeera bureaus.
Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau chief speaks after the strike u.afp.com/Ue3c
#BREAKING Israeli PM says Gaza building housing media was 'perfectly legitimate target'
#UPDATE Benjamin Netanyahu alleges the tower also hosted a Palestinian "terrorist" intelligence office.
"So it is a perfectly legitimate target. I can tell you that we took every precaution to make sure that there were no civilian injuries, in fact, no deaths," he said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday defended the strike on the Gaza tower that housed the Associated Press and Al Jazeera bureaus, alleging it also hosted a Palestinian "terrorist" intelligence office u.afp.com/Ue3V
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#BREAKING 86 migrants cross barrier at Spanish enclave of Melilla: authorities
#BREAKING Spain returns to Morocco 1,500 migrants who entered Ceuta: govt
#UPDATE Spain returns to Morocco 1,500 migrants out of the roughly 6,000 who entered the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on Monday - a record for a single day.
More than 80 migrants have also crossed a high barrier from Morocco into Spain's Melilla enclave
#BREAKING No new fossil fuel projects if world to hit net-zero carbon emissions in 2050: IEA
#UPDATE All future fossil fuel projects need to be scrapped if the world is to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and to stand a chance of limiting warming to 1.5C, International Energy Agency says
IEA says sale of all petrol- and diesel-fuelled cars needs to stop by 2035
In a report for negotiators at the crucial COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in November, IEA predicts "sharp decline in fossil fuel demand" in next three decades and a 2040 deadline for global energy sector to achieve carbon neutrality u.afp.com/UeAG
Monster cyclone batters Covid-stricken India's west coast.
Powerful winds and driving rain leave at least 20 people dead and interrupt vaccine programme the country urgently needs to get its spiralling Covid-19 outbreak under control
📸 The father of a 12-year-old girl killed in an Israeli airstrike holds her body at al-Shifa hospital
Explosions light up sky as Israel strikes Gaza.
Israeli jets kept up a barrage of air strikes against the Palestinian enclave of Gaza Monday evening, as a week of violence that has killed more than 200 people pushed world leaders to step up mediation
US military chief warns the conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas is creating instability beyond Gaza, saying it is "in no one's interest to continue fighting"
Israeli air strikes hammer the Gaza Strip pre-dawn Monday, after a week of violence between the Jewish state and Islamist militants left more than 200 people dead as international calls for de-escalation went unheeded u.afp.com/Uei2
#BREAKING Erdogan urges end to Israel's 'massacre' of Palestinians in call with pope
#UPDATE Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged Pope Francis to help end what he called Israel's "massacre" of Palestinians, which should be punished with sanctions, his office said
#BREAKING Israel strikes house of Hamas political chief in Gaza: army
#UPDATES "Among the targets struck are the residences of Yahya Sinwar, Chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau in Gaza, as well as of his brother, Muhammad Sinwar, Head of Logistics and Manpower for Hamas," Israel's army says
#BREAKING 17 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza on Sunday: authorities