Air drops through Jordan by a coalition of Western and Arab states are a lifesaver for starving Palestinians in Gaza struggling to get aid due to closed crossings and insufficient access, the commander of British forces in Cyprus said.

The United States is deeply troubled by actions taken against those protesting a draft law in Georgia and the government should change its course, U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said.

Pope Francis formally proclaimed a Holy Year starting in late December, which will stress the need for hope in a world beset by hunger, poverty and war.

Peru’s poverty rate rose again last year, official data showed.

Colombia’s Supreme Court has ordered the country’s interior minister to testify in a corruption probe.

A Polish judge with access to military secrets, who asked for asylum in Belarus, looked set to face espionage charges, after a Polish court said it was lifting his immunity.

The death toll from severe flooding in southern Brazil has risen to 107, civil defense said.

Billions of dollars worth of U.S. weaponry remains in the pipeline for Israel.

Israeli forces bombarded areas of Rafah, Palestinian residents said, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed U.S. President Joe Biden’s threat to withhold weapons from Israel if it assaults the southern Gaza city.

Venezuela is open to paying its debt to China – which according to independent data amounts to some $10 billion – lawmaker Nicolas Maduro Guerra, son of President Nicolas Maduro, told Reuters in an interview.

Meta’s oversight board upheld a decision to remove two Facebook posts calling for Australians to vote multiple times in an indigenous rights referendum, but noted the social media giant had not adequately explained its ban on encouraging voter fraud.

Israeli tanks and warplanes bombarded areas of Rafah on Thursday, Palestinian residents said, after President Joe Biden said the United States would withhold weapons from Israel if its forces mount a major invasion of the southern Gaza city.