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White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan briefs the press following a phone call between Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu during which the US president told his Israeli counterpart that he is "deeply concerned" about Israel potentially conducting military operations in Rafah, adding, "Israel has not presented us or the world with a plan for how or where they would safely move those civilians." SOUNDBITE
The US State Department is "incredibly concerned" about reports that Russia arrested an American journalist, a US State Department spokesman tells reporters at a press briefing. "I want to say clearly and unequivocally in the strongest terms, we condemn the Kremlin's continued attempts to intimidate, repress and punish journalists and civil society voices," Vedant Patel adds. SOUNDBITE
The World Health Organisation remains "deeply concerned about the situation in the Sahel and the Greater Horn of Africa, and particularly in Somalia" says Director General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Speaking at a WHO press conference on Covid-19, Monkeypox and other issues in Geneva, Tedros says "it is likely that many people have already starved to death". SOUNDBITE
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki says the US is "deeply concerned" about Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai, who went missing after making sexual assault allegations against a top Communist Party official and calls for "independent and verifiable proof of her whereabouts" from China. SOUNDBITE
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that both the United States and Kenya are "deeply concerned" about the ongoing conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region. At a joint press conference in Nairobi with Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs Raychelle Omamo, Blinken adds "the conflict there threatens not just that country but its neighbours as well." SOUNDBITE
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