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Israel allowed 100 aid trucks carrying flour, baby food and medical equipment into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the Israeli military said.

Two Israeli embassy staffers, a young couple about to be engaged, were killed by a lone gunman in Washington, DC, on Wednesday night, and a suspect who chanted pro-Palestine slogans is in custody, officials said.

In a major move to accelerate foreign and domestic investment, Invest Qatar, the country’s investment promotion agency, unveiled a $1 billion economic stimulus program on Wednesday, aimed at driving capital inflows and enhancing the diversification of Qatar’s economy. 

Unidentified gunmen shot dead a former Ukrainian politician on Wednesday outside a school in a wealthy suburb of Madrid, Spain's Interior Ministry said.

Israel has probably killed Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday.

In a bold move reflecting its ambition to become a global artificial intelligence (AI) powerhouse, the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday unveiled Falcon Arabic, a new AI model tailored specifically to the Arabic language and its diverse linguistic nuances. 

The United States will appoint President Donald Trump's longtime advisor and current U.S. ambassador to Turkey, Thomas Barrack, as a special envoy for Syria, a person with direct knowledge of the matter and a diplomat in Turkey said.

Everyone agrees: Hamas is a terrorist organization. It’s not up for debate. It’s enshrined in official designations from Brussels to Washington to Ottawa, scribbled into the margins of UN resolutions somewhere between a generic ceasefire call and an overcatered buffet for peace.

U.S. oil producer Continental Resources estimates there is a shale oil reserve of 6.1 billion barrels in Turkey's southeastern Diyarbakir Basin, the Turkish energy minister said.

Iraq's oil minister said that the federal government has reservations about energy agreements signed by the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, after Iraqi Kurdish Prime Minister Masrour Barzani oversaw the signing of two deals with U.S. companies worth a combined $110 billion over their lifetimes.

Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday appealed for Israel to allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza, calling the situation in the Palestinian enclave "yet more worrying and saddening".

The European Union is facing internal division after its foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, announced plans to review the bloc’s association agreement with Israel due to the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza.