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20.03.2024 10:30 Israel reportedly sent a delegation to Qatar for talks on a Gaza cease-fire and prisoner exchange local time on Monday. Chinese observers view such diplomatic work by Israel as a way to respond to international pressure to some extent. However, fundamentally, they will not change Israel's brutal military actions in Gaza, as the talks are unlikely to explore ways to fundamentally resolve the crisis

20.03.2024 10:30 Some 31 000 people have been killed in Gaza, including at least 12 000 children. Almost 80 % of the population have been forced to flee their homes. There is a shortage of all essential items and, according to the UN, people in several areas of Gaza are facing famine and outbreaks of disease.

20.03.2024 10:30 Bjarni Benediktsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs, has decided that the payment of Iceland's core contribution to the United Nations Palestine Refugee Agency will be made by 1 April.

20.03.2024 10:30 The Netherlands will contribute 10 million euros to the renewed initiative to get aid into Gaza by sea.

20.03.2024 10:30 Afghans are being pushed back, fenced out, and left to fend for themselves in the face of Taliban persecution and widespread hunger.

20.03.2024 10:30 The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan, a major foreign humanitarian organization, has suspended all its operations following a Taliban decree demanding a halt to Sweden's activities in the country.

20.03.2024 10:30 The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan , one of the country's oldest and largest international aid groups, has suspended activities in Afghanistan after the Taliban revoked its licenses.

20.03.2024 10:30 Pakistan denounces the Indian authorities' decision to declare the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Freedom League and four factions of Jammu and Kashmir Peoples League as "unlawful associations". It also denounces the decision to extend the ban on Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front for five more years.

20.03.2024 10:30 Kosovar Prime Minister Albin Kurti says he will not suspend a move by the central bank to ban the circulation of the Serbian dinar in parts of the country with Serbian majorities but will accept the forming of an Association of Serb-Majority Municipalities once Belgrade agrees to sign a basic agreement on bilateral relations.

20.03.2024 10:30 Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said Tuesday that Armenia would soon need to demarcate its borders with neighboring Azerbaijan or else "a war could erupt by the end of the week."

20.03.2024 10:30 Statement by Deputy Political Coordinator Thomas Phipps at the UN Security Council meeting on Sudan.

20.03.2024 10:30 The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States, Norway, and the United Kingdom on South Sudan.

20.03.2024 10:30 Humanitarians continue to deliver aid in Haiti, where the situation in the capital, Port-au-Prince, remains tense and volatile in the face of escalating gang violence and political instability.

20.03.2024 10:30 The Somali government says that a new military operation against al-Shabab killed nearly 40 militants in Lower Shabelle region.

20.03.2024 10:30 Vietnamese prosecutors are calling for the death sentence for the alleged mastermind of the country's biggest fraud, state-controlled media reported Tuesday.