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The UK is to host an international summit on the recovery of Gaza, Downing Street has said, as Keir Starmer prepared to attend a multi-nation event in Egypt intended to finalise a truce in the Palestinian territory. The prime minister will be among an estimated 20 national leaders, among them Donald Trump, who will gather in Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday, with Starmer saying the aim must be to ensure a lasting peace after two years of devastating loss of life.

The Israeli government says it will free around 2,000 Palestinian prisoners only after hostages have returned to Israel Under Donald Trump's peace plan, the deadline for the exchange is Monday Hamas says it won't attend a Gaza summit in Egypt on Monday More than 20 world leaders are set to meet in Sharm el-Sheikh to approve Trump's plan for the future of Gaza

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

Everyone felt that Chiefs was more appropriate on the basis that we are a sovereign nation of many tribes; over 850 languages and 1,000 tribes and before there was a prime minister, and a king or queen in England, the sovereign head within the tribe was the Chief. Our forefathers and mothers were chiefs who kept order, peace, and balance among our tribes.

In her curtain-raiser speech for the gathering, Georgieva rightly pointed out the global economy has proved more resilient than some feared at the time of the spring meetings in April, when the world's policymakers were transfixed by the chaos emanating from the White House. Part of the reason for that has been front loading: Trump's intention to jack up tariffs was no secret, and many companies ran up inventories in advance and started to rejig their supply chains.

On Thursday, China's commerce ministry said that starting on Dec. 1 a license will be required for foreign companies to export products with more than 0.1% of rare earths from China or that are made with Chinese production technology. That prompted President Donald Trump to announce Friday that he will impose an additional 100% tariff on China and limit U.S. exports of software.

Three Qatari officials have been killed in a car crash near the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, according to the Qatari Embassy in Cairo. In a statement on Sunday, the diplomatic mission said that all three men worked for the Amiri Diwan, the administrative office of Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. list of 3 itemsend of list The embassy described the incident as a tragic traffic accident and said the three men were killed while performing their duties.

Pakistani police have arrested more than 100 people following violence in the eastern city of Lahore, a senior official said Saturday. Supporters of the radical Islamist political party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan, or TLP, want to march from Lahore to Islamabad to express their solidarity with Palestinians. But authorities said they don't have permission to demonstrate in the capital. Police have clashed with the party's supporters in Lahore since Friday, using tear gas and batons to disperse the crowds. People are throwing stones in retaliation.

Many Palestinian people have faced starvation and have had to endure extreme hunger as the UN and other organisations have faced massive logistical obstacles including widespread looting, Israeli bombardments, Israel's administrative restrictions and bureaucracy and infrastructure damaged by Israeli attacks within Gaza. Aid agencies said, in line with the terms in the ceasefire agreement, that they were preparing to flood Gaza with food and other essential supplies.

In his victory speech, Herminie pledged to lower the cost of living, revive public services and unite the island nation. The people have spoken, the 62-year-old said at the headquarters of the electoral commission. I am deeply humbled for the trust that the people have placed in me. I will be the president of all Seychellois, and I will end divisions by ceasing preferences, and giving everyone the opportunity to thrive, he said.

When people hear my name these days, it's usually followed by "former British soldier captured in Mariupol." Or worse, "foreign fighter" as if I'd spent my weekends pledging allegiance to some jihad. The truth is simpler: I was a Ukrainian Marine. Why journalists find it so hard to say that without choking on their morning coffee, or realising they're parroting a Russian talking point is beyond me.

Enayatullah Khwarizmi, the spokesperson for the Afghan Ministry of Defence, said late on Saturday that Taliban forces had carried out successful retaliatory attacks against Pakistani soldiers in response to the neighbouring country's repeated violations of, and air strikes on, Afghan territory. list of 3 itemsend of list He said on X that the operation had ended at midnight. Pakistani Minister of Interior Mohsin Naqvi called the Afghan attacks unprovoked and said that Pakistani forces were responding with a stone for every brick.

Fighting Russian drone and missile attacks across Ukraine on Saturday killed at least five people, while also cutting power to parts of the southern Odesa region, the AFP news agency reported, citing local officials. Two of the victims were killed in an attack on a church in Kostiantynivka in eastern Donetsk, AFP said. Ukraine's private energy firm DTEK said that power has been restored to 240,000 households in Odesa after a Russian attack overnight on Saturday, which damaged some energy infrastructure.

One fall morning in 1985 the prominent Palestinian activist arrived to work at the Santa Ana office of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. When he opened the civil rights group's door, a rigged pipe bomb went off, mortally wounding him. "How can I forget that horrible day?" said Michel Shehadeh, whoreplaced Odeh as the West Coast regional director of the organization, which formed in 1980 to combat anti-Arab stereotypes in U.S. media.

Afghanistan said Sunday it killed 58 Pakistani soldiers in overnight border operations, in response to what it called repeated violations of its territory and airspace. Earlier in the week, Afghan authorities accused Pakistan of bombing the capital, Kabul, and a market in the country's east. Pakistan did not claim responsibility for the assault. The Taliban government's chief spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said Afghan forces have captured 25 Pakistani army posts, 58 soldiers have been killed, and 30 others wounded.

We are all very worried, of course, about the situation in Taiwan. And we also know there is a risk that if the Chinese will try anything with Taiwan, that no doubt he will call his junior partner, Mr Putin, and make sure ... he will keep us busy here, if that would happen. That's one of the reasons why we have to stand ready, and we cannot be naive.

Our reality has not changed. We are still under siege. Israel still has full control over our air, land and sea; it is still blocking sick and injured Palestinians from leaving and journalists, war crimes investigators and activists from going in. It is still controlling what food, what medicine, and essential supplies enter. The siege has lasted over 18 years, shaping every moment of our lives. I have lived under this blockade since I was just three years old.

On Oct. 11, 2002, former President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize for his and The Carter Center's work to resolve international conflicts and advocate for human rights. Also on this date: In 1906, the San Francisco Board of Education ordered the city's Asian students segregated into their own school. (The order was later rescinded at the behest of President Theodore Roosevelt, who in exchange promised to curb future Japanese immigration to the United States.)

He was flanked by President Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner, who played a key role in getting the Israel-Hamas deal done. Out of the 48 hostages remaining, 20 are believed to be alive. To President Donald J. Trump, a man who is a humanitarian through and through, with the indomitable spirit who once again proved that bold leadership and moral clarity can reshape history and change the world, Witkoff told the crowd, right after it shouted its appreciation for the commander-in-chief.

This century, several aging African leaders have also had to reject premature reports of their deaths, like Cameroon's Paul Biya last year when rumours of his demise spread on social media after he wasn't seen in public for a month. It turned out the 92-year-old, who has the distinction of being the world's oldest, non-royal, leader, was simply in residence at his second home in Switzerland.

Smiling and joking in a Steve Biko T-shirt, he said he felt surprisingly well but needed time to find himself after so long either in solitary confinement or isolated in jail. About the British government's efforts to secure his release, he said simply: We did manage to get me out but we did not manage to get a consular visit. That still does not make sense to me. But that might be on the previous government. This one might have inherited the situation.

A drone and artillery attack on a displacement camp in El-Fasher, western Sudan, killed at least 60 people on Saturday, local activists said. The barrage was one of the deadliest assaults since the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) began besieging the city 18 months ago. What is happening in North Darfur's El-Fasher? The El-Fasher resistance committee said the RSF struck the Dar al-Arqam displacement centre on university grounds twice with drones and eight times with artillery shells.