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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urges Middle East rivals to agree to a Gaza ceasefire to "break this cycle" of violence, urging de-escalation as Iran prepares a potential strike on Israel. "Escalation is not in anyone's interests. It will only lead to more conflict, more violence, more insecurity. It's also critical that we break this cycle by reaching a ceasefire in Gaza," Blinken tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's spokesman calls for all sides to "refrain from acts that could escalate tensions in the region" amid China's military drills around Taiwan. "On China, I can tell you that we're of course following the developments in the Taiwan Straits closely. We urge the relevant parties to refrain from acts that could escalate tensions in the region," Stephane Dujarric tells a press conference at the UN headquarters in New York. SOUNDBITE
The Peace Palace, headquarters of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in The Hague, Netherlands, as South Africa asks the top UN court to order an immediate halt to Israel's incursion in Rafah, describing it as a "genocidal" operation threatening the "very survival of Palestinians". IMAGES
US State Department spokesperson Ned Price calls for Belarus to stop "orchestrating" an influx of migrants at the Polish border, blaming strongman Alexander Lukashenko for the "coercion of vulnerable people." SOUNDBITE
Armenian police and Russian peacekeepers can be seen on the closed road to Aghdam, the new border line between the Armenian and Azerbaijani sides as Armenian separatists are handing over the district bordering Nagorno-Karabakh as part of a Russian-brokered peace deal to end weeks of fighting in the region. IMAGES
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