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The United States says it welcomes EU support for continuing development aid to the Palestinian people after attacks on Israel by Islamist militant group Hamas. "They did reverse that, which is a step that we welcome. We have made very clear that we do not have any grievance with the Palestinian people," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller tells reporters. Brussels had earlier rowed back comments from EU neighborhood commissioner Oliver Varhelyi that the bloc was immediately suspending "all payments" to the Palestinians. SOUNDBITE
Darcia Piana, the vice governor of the southern Brazilian state of Parana, visits the site of the C. Vale agroindustrial company where eight people were killed and 11 injured in a series of silo explosions. IMAGES
NGO workers and migrants lay flowers for the at least 39 people who died at a Mexican immigration detention centre in Ciudad Juarez near the US border. Migrants are believed to have lit the fire as a demonstration because they feared they would be deported, according to Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. IMAGES
Gunfire can be heard near a hotel that was stormed by Al-Shabaab militants. Somali security forces have been engaged in an hours-long siege which has left eight civilians dead, according to a spokesperson for the national police. IMAGES
Hundreds of protesters against the state funeral of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gather in a street near the Nippon Budokan ahead of the state funeral. Abe, Japan's longest-serving prime minister, was shot dead on July 8 while campaigning, and a publicly funded state funeral honouring him will be held on September 27. IMAGES
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