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Watch live: Antony Blinken and Lloyd Austin testify on Biden’s $106 billion funding request

US secretary of state Antony Blinken and secretary of defence Lloyd Austin as set to testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee over Joe Biden’s $106 billion supplemental funding request.

The Independent UK

Julian Assange’s brother urges Anthony Albanese to ‘up the ante’ over WikiLeaks founder’s case

Prime minister pushed back on idea of US president personally stepping in, but Gabriel Shipton calls prosecution ‘entirely political’

The Guardian - AU

Joe Biden and Xi Jinping meeting a step closer, says US

US president and senior aides meet with Wang Yi, the Chinese foreign minister, after which White House says it is ‘working towards’ top-level talks

The Guardian - AU

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US asks Qatar to ‘turn down the volume’ of Al Jazeera news coverage

Secretary of state Antony Blinken made request of Qatari prime minister Sheikh Mohammed during frantic trip to Doha

The Guardian - US

China's top diplomat visits Washington to help stabilize ties and perhaps set up a Biden-Xi summit

China’s top diplomat is meeting high-level U.S. officials, possibly including President Joe Biden, on a highly watched visit to Washington

The Independent UK

Relatives of Texans, Jewish and Muslim, remain trapped in Gaza

Two Texans — a Jewish man, a Muslim woman — want more support from the federal government to bring their loved ones home. Their families are stuck in a war zone, along with hundreds of other Americans.

The Texas Tribune

Israeli strike kills journalist's family

Wael Al-Dahdouh was reporting live near Wafa Hospital in Gaza City when someone spoke to him about his family

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Penny Wong urges Australians in Lebanon to ‘consider leaving’ – As it happened

All the day’s news as it unfolded

The Guardian - AU

Palestinian Americans Are Americans, Too

For many in New Jersey, the war in Gaza has brought back painful family history.

Reason

Trump's Stooges Flip

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Reason

UN chief ‘shocked’ by ‘misrepresentation’ of comments in row with Israel

António Guterres had said Hamas attacks had been in context of ‘years of suffocating occupation’ but denied ‘justifying acts of terror’

The Guardian - UK

Xi says China willing to cooperate with US as hopes rise for talks with Biden

Xi Jinping says whether or not two countries can find right way of getting along is crucial to the world

The Guardian - UK

Israel to refuse visas to UN officials after Guterres speech on Gaza war

Protesting the UN chief’s criticism, Israel’s envoy says ‘the time has come to teach them a lesson’.

Al Jazeera

India to treat Pakistan’s reference to Kashmir at UNSC meeting “with contempt it deserves”

India rejects Pakistan's reference to Kashmir at UNSC, says it will treat it with contempt. U.S. Sec. of State Blinken affirms right of any nation to defend itself, condemns all acts of terrorism, calls on UNSC to denounce states that arm, fund, train terrorist groups.

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The Guardian - AU

Hamas and Israel at war: what we know on day 19

Israel calls for resignation of UN secretary general António Guterres; hundreds of Gazans killed in airstrikes as Israel intensifies bombing campaign

The Guardian - UK

UN’s António Guterres calls for immediate ceasefire to end ‘epic suffering’ in Gaza

Secretary general’s comments spark fierce row and Israeli calls for resignation as 700 deaths are reported in a day and hospitals close for want of electricity

The Guardian - UK

Israel drops leaflets in Gaza offering reward for hostage information

Latest effort to free more than 200 people comes as Israeli military continues preparing for expected ground offensive

The Independent UK

Blinken calls for aid to Palestinians and offers warning for Iran

Top American diplomat offered the warning to Tehran in remarks at the UN

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Al Jazeera

China’s Wang Yi to pay rare visit to US as two countries try to repair ties

Visit takes place amid Israel-Hamas war and escalating tensions in the disputed South China Sea.

The Independent UK

Top Chinese diplomat to visit Washington ahead of possible meeting between Biden and Xi

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will come to Washington for a three-day visit starting Thursday

The Independent UK

40 years after Beirut's deadly Marines bombing, US troops again deploying east of the Mediterranean

Forty years after the bombing that killed 241 U.S. troops in Beirut, the United States is again sending troops to the eastern Mediterranean as tension between Israel and Iran increases over the Israel-Hamas war

The Guardian - AU

Israeli military preparing ‘unrelenting attacks’ – as it happened

This blog has now closed. You can follow the Guardian’s new live news blog on the Israel-Hamas conflict here

The Guardian - AU

Hamas and Israel at war: what we know on day 17

Israel says it has mounted limited raids within the Gaza Strip to attack Hamas; confirmed number of hostages held in Gaza raised to 222

The Independent UK

Biden asks Israel to delay Gaza ground invasion to free more hostages

Biden administration pressing for delays in Israel’s ground attacks on Gaza, according to reports

Al Jazeera

US says it will retaliate if American forces are attacked in Middle East

US diplomat Blinken was speaking as the possibility of the conflict spreading across the Middle East rises.

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