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Pacific Islands Forum: four leaders fail to attend as China-US rivalry takes centre stage

Officials confirmed the prime ministers of Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea would not be travelling to the Cook Islands for the Pacific Islands Forum (Pif) meeting running from Monday to Friday.

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China and US reportedly agree to rare nuclear arms control talks

The talks would be led on Monday by Mallory Stewart, a senior state department official, and Sun Xiaobo, the head of the arms control department at China’s foreign ministry, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

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Israel targets Hamas tunnels amid hopes more aid will reach civilians in Gaza

Israeli tanks and infantry have targeted tunnel entrances and rocket launch positions in fresh clashes with Hamas around Gaza City and in the south of the enclave.

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Russia-Ukraine war live: Kyiv claims it has hit Russian air defence system in Crimea; Russia boosting forces near Bakhmut, says Ukraine

Ukraine’s army said it had overnight “successfully hit” part of Russia’s air defence system located in annexed Crimea, Agence France-Presse reports.

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US strikes Iran-linked sites in Syria amid fears Israel-Hamas war could escalate

The US military has launched airstrikes on two locations in eastern Syria linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), signalling a new willingness in Washington to engage its forces directly in the crisis in the Middle East.

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The US has deployed troops in the Middle East. Can it avoid a ‘commitment trap’?

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Israel says it will ban UN staff after secretary general’s comments

Israel says it is banning United Nations representatives from visiting the country “to teach them a lesson” after the UN secretary general, António Guterres, said the 7 October attacks by Hamas had to be seen in the context of decades of occupation of the Palestinian people.

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Israeli military preparing ‘unrelenting attacks’ – as it happened

Israeli chief of staff Lt Gen Herzi Halevi issued a statement late on Monday suggesting that Israel had no intention of curbing its strikes on the densely populated Gaza Strip and hinting that it was well prepared for a ground assault.

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Israel-Hamas war live: Israel says Hamas is holding 222 hostages as Gaza says more than 5,000 people killed

Gaza health ministry: more than 5,000 killed by Israeli attacks, including more than 2,000 children

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