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Run by the Egyptian Red Crescent (ERC), it is the fourth aid convoy sent from Egypt to Gaza since July 27, Egypt's Al-Qahera News TV reported.

Moscow, whose forces invaded Ukraine in 2022, has in recent weeks escalated aerial attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities and rail systems.

The agreement follows a 20-point peace plan for Gaza announced last month by US President Donald Trump, under which Israel should withdraw from Gaza and release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the hostages.

The investigation by France24 shows the army appears to have dropped two chlorine barrels in September 2024 around the al-Jaili oil refinery north of Khartoum.

Japan's Susumu Kitagawa, UK-born Richard Robson and American-Jordanian Omar Yaghi were honoured for their groundbreaking discoveries dating from the late 1980s to the early 2000s.

The talks aim to thrash out a plan to implement a 20-point peace proposal put forward by US President Donald Trump last month, and which both Israel and Hamas have responded positively to.

Briton John Clarke, Frenchman Michel Devoret and American John Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for work on quantum physics in action, the Nobel jury said.

Grandi said the 2025 approved budget amounted to $10.6 billion, but UNHCR only received about half of that amount. He added that as it stands, UNHCR will end the year with $3.9 billion in available funds, a decrease of $1.3 billion compared to 2024 - or roughly 25% less.

Adding to buying sentiment was an announcement by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and OpenAI of a partnership to develop AI data centres. The deal comes after OpenAI and Nvidia signed a contract for more than $100 billion in equipment.

The majority of the drones were intercepted over the border regions of Kursk and Belgorod, Russia's defence ministry said in a statement.