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New UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he is "not prepared to continue" with the Rwanda deportation plan of his Conservative predecessors. Speaking the day after his Labour Party secured a landslide election victory, Starmer says the plan "was never a deterrent, almost the opposite." SOUNDBITE
Protesters in London try to block the removal of migrants from their temporary accommodation, as the UK government began detaining people before controversial deportation flights to Rwanda start. The protesters occupy the road in front of a bus believed to be waiting to take asylum seekers from a hotel in the Peckham area of the British capital to an accommodation barge moored off the south coast of England. A London Metropolitan Police statement said a number of people had been arrested. IMAGES
Empty trucks pass through the newly reopened Erez border crossing as they return from northern Gaza's Beit Hanun after dropping off aid. IMAGES
Aid trucks drive into Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip as the Israel-Hamas war enters its seventh month. IMAGES
Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid arrive from the south of the Gaza Strip to the Kuwait roundabout in Gaza City. Trucks are then seen waiting to pass to the northern Gaza Strip in coordination with the Israeli army. IMAGES
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