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Israel sending delegation to Cairo for indirect negotiations on truce with HamasFull report: Israel says forces take control of Rafah crossingIsraeli assault on Gaza city of Rafah: what we know so farMiller confirmed that Hamas has “issued a response”, when asked about Hamas’s announcement that they accepted a ceasefire deal.“We are reviewing that response now and discussing it with our partners in the region,” Miller said. Continue reading…

From Baghdad to Copenhagen, demonstrations against Israel’s military action in Gaza have been growing at university campuses across the globe Continue reading…

Many European diplomats will avoid lavish ceremony amid war in Ukraine and his disputed landslide electionGood morning and welcome to our Ukraine blog as the time has just passed 10am in Kyiv and Moscow.Russian President Vladimir Putin will be sworn into office at a lavish ceremony in the Kremlin later today, embarking on a record-breaking fifth term with more power than ever before. Continue reading…

US Aukus commitment should not be doubted, says assistant secretary of state, while refusing to be drawn on lingering concerns about sale of nuclear submarinesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA US official has declined to explicitly guarantee Australia will have full control of the Aukus nuclear-powered submarines, saying he won’t get “into some of the minutiae of various questions that are out there”.But the assistant secretary of state, Daniel Kritenbrink, played down broader concerns about whether a future US president would approve or block the planned sale of at least three Virginia class submarines to Australia in the 2030s.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading…

Two female WSL managers are leaving for reasons of work-life balance. When it comes to sacrifice, it’s not the same for menFamously, when Emma Hayes was agonising last autumn over whether to leave Chelsea and take the US national team job, she sought the advice of her son, Harry, at bedtime. “Let’s go to the USA, Mummy!” came the reply, a moment that Hayes later described as the “endorsement” she needed. And so we must at least brook the extremely funny possibility that an entire era of modern women’s football – from this season’s enthralling WSL title race, to the trajectory of Chelsea, Lyon and their European rivals, to the fate of the next Olympic Games and World Cup – will swing on the verdict of a sleepy five-year-old child.And, frankly, why not? When you consider some of the decisions adults have taken for the health of the game in recent years, it’s hard to make the case that children would have done a markedly inferior job. A five-year-old child would certainly not have sanctioned the introduction of VAR, because waiting is boring, and they would have been right. A five-year-old child could have devised far better World Cup venues than Qatar or Saudi Arabia, although it remains to be seen whether Pizza Express would have had the capacity to host a gathering of such magnitude. Continue reading…