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Our top stories. Israel said it would resume A-del aid deliveries to Gaza and that it would return to observing the ceasefire in the territory.

Earlier Israel suspended aid and launched airstrikes that killed 26 people after accusing Hamas

of firing on its troops and killing two soldiers. Hamas and Israel have repeatedly accused each other of breaching the ceasefire since it began on

October 10th, but both sides are still saying that they wanted to continue.

Pete Hagseth, America's Secretary of War, said that the armed forces struck an alleged

drug smuggling boat on Friday, killing three people.

Mr. Hagseth claimed that the ship was linked

to a Colombian armed group. He said such gangs are the al-Qaeda of the Western Hemisphere. It is the

seventh strike that America has carried out on such a vessel since September. Huge crowds gathered

across America for a second day of No King's demonstrations four months

after the first.

Protesters expressed anger at various policies of the Trump administration, such as deporting

immigrants, and condemned its perceived side towards authoritarianism.

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