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Pro-Israeli demonstrators gather outside the BBC headquarters in London, decrying the violence committed against the hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The rally comes as the Israel-Hamas war nears its fourth month after beginning on October 7, 2023, when a deadly Hamas attack resulted in the deaths of about 1,160 people, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli data. Some 250 people were also taken hostage during the attack, with 132 remaining in Gaza. The territory's Hamas-run health ministry says that Israel's military response has left at least 27,365 people dead. IMAGES
Pope Francis greets journalists on the plane at Rome-Fiumicino airport before flying to Marseille for a two-day visit devoted to the Mediterranean and the challenge of migration, against a backdrop of growing hostility towards would-be exiles in a Europe tempted to turn inward. IMAGES
Images of smoke and a reconnaissance aircraft flying over Khartoum, as deadly battles between the army and paramilitary forces led by rival generals and explosions rock the Sudanese capital for a fifth day in a row. IMAGES
"Even though we had no indications that any of these three objects were surveilling, we couldn't rule that out," White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby tells reporters during a briefing, as questions about the three unidentified flying objects downed by US Air Force jets over North America in three days intensify. SOUNDBITE
The Russian Ministry of Defence releases footage of anti-submarine aircraft Tupolev Tu-142 flying over the Atlantic Ocean. The Defense Ministry says crews conducted exercises "to search for submarines (...) over the neutral waters of the Barents, Norwegian Sea and the Atlantic Ocean", and were "escorted by fighters from the Norwegian Air Force and the British Air Force". IMAGES
The Russian Defence Ministry releases images of Russian troops loading up and boarding military planes on their way to Kazakhstan and armoured vehicles in transit, after the Kazakh government appealed for help. Long seen as one the most stable of the ex-Soviet republics of Central Asia, energy-rich Kazakhstan is facing its biggest crisis in decades after days of protests over rising fuel prices escalated into widespread unrest. IMAGES