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Around 20 lorries carrying aid, waited to enter the Gaza Strip after Egypt agreed to open its border crossing for delivery of humanitarian supplies.

The White House suggested the aid would be delivered by Friday.

The World Health Organization described the move as a very, very small start and suggested at least a hundred trucks a day were needed.

Meanwhile, the American embassy in Beirut, Lebanon's capital, told American citizens to leave the country.

Other Western countries such as France and Canada have warned against troubled Lebanon as concerns grow that a second front could emerge on the Lebanese Israeli border.

An American warship in the Red Sea shot down three cruise missiles and several drones that the Pentagon said were launched from Yemen, potentially targeting Israel.

Militants, backed by Iran, have previously launched rockets and drones from Yemen.

Tensions in the region are high, earlier this week Iran threatened primitive action to defend Gaza.

The warship, the USS Kani, reported no casualties.

America's House of Representatives remained paralyzed as Jim Jordan, the Republican nominee for the speakership, said he would seek a third vote.

The announcement was a reversal from his position hours before when he said he would pause his bid.

Some Republicans instead favoured temporarily granting Patrick McKenry, the interim speaker, expanded powers.

Canada brought home 41 diplomats from India as a result of a growing dispute over the murder of Padip Singh Niger in British Columbia last June.

In September, Canada accused Indian agents of orchestrating the killing, an allegation which India denies.

According to Canada's Foreign Minister, India said it would remove immunity from all but 21 diplomats by October the 20th.

The EU awarded the Sakharov Prize, a Human Rights Award to Masa Armini, a Kurdish Iranian woman who died in police custody last year and the women's rights movement she inspired.

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