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The eye of Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico, pummeling the island as a Category Four storm with winds of 155 miles (250 kilometers) per hour, the US National Hurricane Center says. IMAGES
Republicans kill a $118 billion immigration and foreign aid package that had linked US funding for Ukraine and Israel with stringent domestic border security measures. Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Democratic-led Senate, calls for a second vote to approve the foreign aid without the immigration curbs. IMAGES
Israeli demonstrators block aid trucks bound for Gaza at the Kerem Shalom crossing in southern Israel. The protesters are calling for humanitarian aid to the Palestinian territory to be halted until all the hostages -- held captive in Gaza since the October 7th attacks -- are released. IMAGES
Israeli protesters, including relatives of the hostages held in Gaza since the October 7 attacks by Hamas, take part in a demonstration aimed at blocking aid trucks from entering the Palestinian territory, on the Israeli side of the Kerem Shalom border crossing with the southern Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. IMAGES
Israelis gather at the Kerem Shalom crossing to protest and block the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. IMAGES
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pledges to find a way around Hungary's block on a 50 billion euro aid package for Ukraine at a summit early next year. "We will have an operational solution" she says, speaking after a crunch EU summit in Brussels where member states agreed to begin membership talks with Kyiv, despite opposition from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. SOUNDBITE