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Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Friday the army was intensifying strikes from the air, land and sea in Gaza to pressure Hamas into freeing remaining hostages, and would also evacuate civilians to the south of the enclave.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday that Tehran does not need proxies in the region and that Yemen's Houthis, who are among the groups in the Middle East that Iran is aligned with, act on their own motivations.

Turkey's government warned on Friday against "illegal" calls from the main opposition for street protests over the detention of Istanbul's mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, after thousands demonstrated across the country in the last two days.

The Sudanese army seized full control of the Presidential Palace in Khartoum on Friday, Sudan state TV and military sources said, in one of the most significant advances in a two-year-old conflict threatening to fracture the country.

The United States and Israel will hold high-level talks on Iran's nuclear program at the White House early next week, a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

Turkey's main opposition leader said on Thursday any move to legally bar Istanbul's detained mayor from running for president would only strengthen support for their party, and that any candidate would beat President Tayyip Erdogan in elections. 

The Trump administration has prepared a proposal to overhaul the structure of how Washington distributes billions of dollars of foreign aid, according to an internal memo that calls for funding fewer areas that it views as better aligned with U.S. geopolitical interests.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday Ukrainian experts would be present at upcoming talks involving the United States and Russia, but will not be in the same room as Russia, as a diplomatic push to end the war intensifies.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has reported the deaths of five additional staff members in recent days, bringing the total number of fatalities among its personnel to 284, according to Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have successfully eliminated the head of Hamas' General Security Apparatus in a targeted operation, Israeli military sources confirmed.

During her visit to Damascus on Thursday, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called on Syria’s interim government to take concrete action against extremist elements within its ranks. This marks her second visit to Syria since the fall of Bashar al-Assad in December.

The U.S. on Thursday issued new Iran-related sanctions, targeting one individual and several entities including a Chinese "teapot" oil refinery for purchasing and processing Iranian crude oil, the Treasury Department website showed.