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Our top stories. The seven-day truce between Hamas and Israel came to an abrupt end.

Israel said it had resumed fighting in Gaza after shooting down a rocket

launched from the enclave. The Israeli armed forces also dropped leaflets over Han Eunice, the most northerly big city in southern

Gaza warning residents to move further south.

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister claimed that Hamas had run egged on the terms of the

truce by failing to release some of the agreed-upon hostages. Hamas accused Israel of breaking its commitment to allow

fuel trucks into Gaza. America's House of Representatives voted to expel

George Santos, a scandal-ridden Republican

congressman from New York. Mr Santos, who has pleaded not guilty to federal

corruption charges, is the sixth member ever to be ousted and only the third after the Civil War.

The House previously voted to save him, but a recent report from the House Ethics Committee convinced his colleagues to expel.

The International Court of Justice, the UN's top court, partly sided with Guiana in a dispute with Venezuela over the potentially oil-rich Escobio region which

Guyana controls. Venezuela plans to hold a referendum on Sunday to affirm its claim on the land.

While the court did not forbid the vote, it ordered Venezuela not to change the status quo.

Donald Trump's claim that presidents have immunity for actions undertaken while in office was dealt a double blow.

First a federal appeals court rejected the argument ruling that the ex-president can be

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