This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Chris Berrow and in the early hours of Wednesday the 21st of August,

these are our main stories.

The US Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin has ended his tour of the

Middle East with the prospect of a Gaza peace deal still in the balance.

Africa's main public health agency has announced plans to make 10 million

Mpox vaccines available for use across the continent.

The first flight has taken off as part of a US-funded scheme

to return migrants from Panama to Colombia

to stop them traveling on to the United States. Also with the podcast,

They hold the ice lolly in their hand for too long,

it's going to start to melt.

We are really advocating for lots of different

essential experiences.

Scientists in the UK say there should be a new way of teaching science in schools

with a focus on real life.

We begin in the Middle East and the United States is pushing for a ceasefire deal with

new urgency as political pressure mounts on the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Standing in front of a US Air Force plane at an airport in the Katari capital Doha,

as he ended his ninth visit to the region since the Israel-Garza War began, the U.S. Secretary

of State Anthony Blinkin stressed that a ceasefire deal must get

done in the coming days.

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