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A ceasefire is broadly holding in east Ukraine but separatists in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk are training in case hostilities with government troops resume. Mana Rabiee reports.
Pro-Russian rebels pound Ukrainian government forces in Debaltseve, and Kiev says it won't pull back heavy guns while a truce is violated, leaving a peace deal on the verge of collapse. Mana Rabiee reports.
Smoke billows over Gaza City as fighting raged on unabated a day after the UN Security Council passed its first resolution calling for an "immediate ceasefire" in the bloodiest ever Gaza war, sparked by Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel. IMAGES
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken makes a surprise visit to the Israeli-occupied West Bank, meeting with Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas. Their meeting comes as global concern grows over rising violence in the occupied territory in tandem with the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza since October 7. IMAGES
Western powers through their support to Ukraine have effectively entered direct war against Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says. SOUNDBITE