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The United States warns Israel that staging a military push into the southern Gaza city of Rafah without proper planning would run the risk of becoming a "disaster." State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel says Washington has "yet to see any evidence of serious planning for such an operation," adding: "To conduct such an operation right now with no planning and little thought in an area" where one million people are sheltering "would be a disaster." SOUNDBITE
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif warns the United Nations that climate disasters will not remain confined to his country, in the wake of devastating floods. "What happened in Pakistan will not stay in Pakistan," he says. SOUNDBITE
With Aleppo under a daytime ceasefire, the United Nations is warning that the ongoing seige and bombardment of the city may constitute war crimes. Nathan Frandino reports.
UNICEF says nearly half a million children around Lake Chad face severe acute malnutrition due to drought and a seven-year Islamist insurgency in northern Nigeria. Natasha Howitt reports.
"The seven souls we mourn today were there so that hungry people could eat," chef Jose Andres says of the World Central Kitchen staffers who were killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza, during remarks at a ceremony honoring their lives at the Washington National Cathedral. SOUNDBITE
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).
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