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The World Health Organization (WHO) says it will send more than one million polio vaccines to war-torn Gaza after the virus was detected in wastewater there. The UN agency's chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, adds that the vaccines "will be administered in the coming weeks". SOUNDBITE
Israelis protest next to the Sde Teman military base near Beersheba against the detention for questioning of military reservists suspected of abusing a detainee held there. The Sde Teiman facility is known to be holding Palestinians arrested from Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war. IMAGES
A Philippine-flagged tanker carrying 1.4 million litres of industrial fuel oil capsized and sank off Manila on Thursday, authorities said, as they seek to contain a spill stretching several kilometres. IMAGES
"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
Humanitarian aid packages are parachuted into northern Gaza, seen from Israel. IMAGES