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Timoleon Jimenez, the leader of Colombian rebel group FARC, announced a ceasefire in Havana on Sunday after reaching an agreement with the Colombian government, ending one of the longest running and deadliest wars in the world, which has already left over 300,000 people dead.
US President Joe Biden says that the war in Yemen "has to end", pledging to terminate US support for Saudi-led offensive operations and to halt arms sales, during his first foreign policy address at the State Department. SOUNDBITE
Images show an aircraft flying under the banner of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) departing from Sanaa International Airport to Aden International Airport with released prisoners, previously held by Yemen's Huthi rebels, aboard. IMAGES
A plane transporting released Huthi prisoners takes off from Aden airport towards Sanaa as the three-day exchange of prisoners between cities in Yemen and its oil-rich neighbour, Saudi Arabia begins. Nearly 900 prisoners from Yemen's civil war will be exchanged in the biggest prisoner swap since 2020, after a delegation from Saudi Arabia, which launched a military intervention in 2015, held talks with Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels this week in an attempt to end hostilities. IMAGES
"It's not the end of my career to come in [Saudi Arabia].. I’m really really happy to be here," says Portuguese footballer Ronaldo during a presser at the Mrsool Park stadium in Riyadh where the Saudi Arabian club Al-Nassr unveiled the biggest recruit in its history. IMAGES
Chinese President Xi Jinping holds a bilateral meeting with Saudi King Salman, on the second day of his visit to Riyadh. The two leaders have signed a comprehensive strategic partnership agreement between the Asian giant and the oil-rich kingdom. IMAGES