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Our top stories. Heavy fighting between Israel and Hamas was reported in

Jabalia, a refugee camp in northern Gaza.

The Hamas-run local authority said that there were about 100,000 people in the camp.

On Wednesday, the UN Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez invoked a power in the UN Charter,

unused since 1989, to warn the Security Council of a, quote,

severe risk of collapse of the humanitarian system in Gaza.

He also reiterated his call for a humanitarian ceasefire. The UAE, a member of the council, said it had

submitted a draft resolution for a vote on a ceasefire. America has

previously vetoed similar motions.

America announced it will conduct joint military fights with Guyana,

as tensions escalate between the South African country and neighbouring Venezuela.

On Tuesday, Nicholas Maduro, Venezuela's president, told the country's state-owned firms to begin exploiting oil, gas and mines in

Esquebo, a region of Guyana which Venezuela claims as its own. On Sunday Venezuela held a misguided referendum that Mr Maduro

said backed his sovereignty push. Britain accused Russia's main intelligence service, the FSB, of sustained cyber attacks

designed to interfere with British politics.

Said a group within the Russian spy agency had targeted politicians, civil servants,

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