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Nobel committee chairwoman Berit Ress-Andersen announces that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020 is awarded to the World Food Programme. SOUNDBITE
Hundreds of Gazans rush towards aid trucks carrying flour and canned food in Gaza City. Ten trucks have crossed into the Gaza Strip transporting aid from several countries, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt as well as the World Food Programme. But as fighting enters its fourth month, the World Health Organization has warned that its ability to provide aid and support hospitals was "shrinking". IMAGES
A French military aircraft is loaded with humanitarian aid destined for Gaza, at Orléans-Bricy air base, south of Paris, before taking off for Egypt. Alarm has surged over the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza as the Israel-Hamas war rages into a seventh week. IMAGES
Trucks of food arrives at a UNRWA school in Rafah, South of the Gaza Strip and is distributed to displaced people crammed in the building. IMAGES
Syria will grant the United Nations permission to use a key crossing to deliver humanitarian aid to civilians in rebel-held northwest Syria for a period of six months, Bassam Sabbagh, Syrian ambassador to the UN, tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Russia vetoes a nine-month extension of a key Syria aid route at the UN Security Council, a day after the vital mechanism providing life-saving support to millions of people expired. While many council members including the United States and Britain have called for a full year extension, Russia has insisted on just six months and rejected the nine-month compromise proposed by Switzerland and Brazil. SOUNDBITE