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A ceasefire is broadly holding in east Ukraine but separatists in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk are training in case hostilities with government troops resume. Mana Rabiee reports.
A series of strikes hit the northern Gaza Strip as rockets are intercepted above the Israeli border city of Sderot, on the third day after a seven-day truce in the Israel-Hamas war expired. Israel carries out deadly bombardments in Gaza on Sunday as international calls mounted for greater protection of civilians and the renewal of an expired truce with Palestinian militant group Hamas. IMAGES
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says that rebels in Syria's Eastern Ghouta were responsible for ensuring that a "humanitarian pause" in the area delivers relief for devastated civilians. SOUNDBITE
Syrian rebels and the main opposition group cautiously welcome an idea proposed earlier by Russia for a weekly 24-hour pause in fighting to allow aid to reach besieged civilians in Aleppo, provided the United Nations can monitor and enforce such a truce. Diane Hodges reports.