The US vice-president’s visit comes after a flare-up of violence between Israel and Hamas that threatened to derail the 12-day-old truce.
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US strikes on Latin American ‘drug boats’: What do we know, and are they legal?
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‘We have failed’ says minister as France reels from Louvre heist
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Toxic haze in Delhi despite ‘green’ Diwali
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US chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky dies aged 29
The young prodigy’s “unexpected passing” was announced by his family on Monday.
Amazon outage ‘resolved’ as Snapchat and banks among sites impacted
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French ex-president Sarkozy goes to jail for campaign finance conspiracy
Nicolas Sarkozy, president from 2007-2012, has appealed against his jail term at La Santé prison.
Everything we know about the Louvre jewellery heist
The world-famous museum in Paris is still closed on Monday after a masked gang raided one of its galleries.
Hamas is a pale shadow of what it was – but it could yet reinvent itself
After governing with an iron rod for so many years, is Hamas really prepared to relinquish control in Gaza