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Our Top Stories Our top stories. Hamas played down hope the ceasefire in Gaza shortly after President Joe Biden talked of his optimism.

An official for Hamas told the BBC that mediators meeting in Qatar last week were

selling illusions.

Anthony Blinckin, America's Secretary of State, is due to arrive in Israel on Saturday in a renewed diplomatic push.

Meanwhile an Israeli air strike on Nabatia, a city in southern Lebanon, killed at least 10 people, according to local media.

Israel's army said it had targeted a weapons storage facility used by Hezbollah, an Iran-backed

Shia militia.

Elon Musk said that X, a social media platform that he owns, would close its offices in

Brazil after a dispute with the country's Supreme Court.

The tech mogul accused Alexandra de Morias, one of the court's 11 The

Tmerius, one of the court's 11 judges of making secret censorship and private

information handover demands of Ex's legal representative in Brazil, though X said it would remain accessible

to users in Brazil.

The court has not commented on the

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