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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasts criticisms of contested legal reforms as "absurd" and "prespoterous" during a press conference in Berlin. SOUNDBITE
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tells Gulf Cooperation Council ministers during a meeting in Riyadh that Iran's confrontation with Israel showed the need for greater defence integration. SOUNDBITE
The Palestinian envoy to the United Nations Riyad Mansour calls Washington's veto of a Security Council push for a ceasefire "absolutely reckless and dangerous." "It is not Israel that should be protected by the veto. It is Palestinian children, women and men, who must be protected by this Council acting now," Mansour says in a statement to the Security Council. SOUNDBITE
The United States vetoes a UN Security Council resolution that called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, even as President Joe Biden faces mounting pressure to dial back support for Israel. IMAGES
Smoke billows from central Gaza as Israel continues to strike the Palestinian enclave after Hamas warned no Israeli hostages would leave the territory alive unless its demands for prisoner releases were met. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).