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Israel has told the United Nations it will not renew a visa for the top U.N. humanitarian aid official for the Palestinian Gaza Strip and West Bank, a U.N. spokesperson said on Friday.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday that he met with officials from Arab states and discussed the future of the Gaza Strip, as Israel resumed its assault after a week-long truce with Palestinian Hamas militants broke down.

Belonging to the subsidiary of the Kuwaiti franchise giant Al Shaya, the two brands, would have borne the brunt of the strong boycott campaign targeting the Western brands and stores that shared "apologetic" posts about the Israeli war on Gaza.

Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, president of the United Arab Emirates, met today with various heads of delegations participating in the UN Climate Change  Conference (COP28) at Expo City Dubai.

Two people were killed on Friday during Israeli shelling of the border town of Houla in southern Lebanon, according to Hezbollah's television channel Al-Manar. 

Prosecutors in New York have charged a former Moroccan ambassador to the United Nations and others with visa fraud, accusing them of bringing workers to the United States using fake employment contracts and then exploiting them.

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has a poster hanging on a wall of his office in Tel Aviv, in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. It shows mugshots of hundreds of the Palestinian militant group's commanders arranged in a pyramid.

Britain announced that it was sending one of its most advanced naval vessels to the Gulf to shore up its presence in the region.

The war between Israel and Hamas has exacerbated the challenges posed by climate change in Gaza, where fighting resumed after a week-long ceasefire, said the King of Jordan on Friday at the global climate conference.

Israelis interviewed on Tel Aviv's streets backed their army's resumption of fighting in the Gaza Strip on Friday, acknowledging the dangers but blaming Hamas for the collapse of a week-long truce.

The United Nations on Friday deplored the resumption of military operations in Gaza, describing the hostilities as "catastrophic" and urging parties to ensure a lasting ceasefire be uphe

Zambia has selected United Arab Emirates' International Resources Holdings (IRH) as the new strategic equity partner in Mopani Copper Mines, the miner's owner ZCCM-IH said late on Thursday.