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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 EU official urges Morocco to prevent migrant crossings to Spain's Ceuta

#UPDATE The EU commissioner for home affairs, Ylva Johansson, on Tuesday urged Morocco to "prevent irregular departures" of migrants after some 6,000 entered Spain's Ceuta enclave from the North African country

📸 Spanish soldiers stand guard after 6,000 migrants entered Ceuta

#BREAKING Spain returns 2,700 migrants from Ceuta to Morocco

#BREAKING Ceuta migrant surge is 'serious crisis' for Europe: Spanish PM

#BREAKING Spain PM vows to "restore order" in Ceuta enclave after thousands of migrants arrived from Morocco

#UPDATE Spain's prime minister vowed to "restore order" in the country's North African enclave of #Ceuta on Tuesday after a record 6,000 migrants reached its beaches from Morocco, raising diplomatic tensions between Madrid and Rabat u.afp.com/Ueni

#BREAKING Spanish PM arrives in Ceuta enclave amid migrant crisis: govt

#BREAKING Spain summons Morocco ambassador over migrant arrivals: govt

#BREAKING Morocco says recalls ambassador from Spain for consultations

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#BREAKING Two Thai workers killed in southern Israel by rockets fired from Gaza: police

#UPDATE Two Thai workers were killed in southern Israel by rocket fire from #Gaza on Tuesday, police said, raising to 12 the death toll in the Jewish state since the conflict broke out u.afp.com/Uenf #Eshkol

#BREAKING German Chancellor Merkel, Jordan king call for 'swift' Mideast ceasefire: spokesman

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#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

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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

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#BREAKING 127 missing after India cyclone sinks barge: Navy

#UPDATES Some 127 people missing after a vessel adrift off Mumbai's coast sinks during Cyclone Tauktae

Indian navy says vessel carrying 273 people when it started drifting as strong winds battered western coast

Defence ministry says 146 people rescued

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US blocks -- for the third time in a week -- the adoption of a joint UN statement calling for a halt to Israeli-Palestinian violence

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📸 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"

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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

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#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
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#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
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