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The UN Security Council passed a resolution calling for humanitarian pauses and corridors in Gaza.

America, Britain and Russia abstained from the vote.

The resolution also called for the release of all

hostages by Hamas. Earlier the Israel Defence Forces claimed to have found signs of Hamas, including weapons inside an Al-Shifa hospital,

when they raided it on Wednesday. Conditions at the hospital, the largest in Gaza, have been deteriorating for days, putting patients and the thousands of people sheltering within the hospital grounds at risk.

On Tuesday, America supported Israel's claims that Hamas used the facility

as a base. Doctors at the hospital denied the claims. Taiwan's main opposition parties, which won better relations with China,

agreed to field their candidates on a joint ticket in the country's presidential elections in January.

Polls suggest that together, who you E, the Kumintang's candidate and Co Wenje,

leader of the Upstart Taiwan People's Party, could beat the candidate from the incumbent Democratic Progressive Party, which advocates strengthening relations with America. Britain's Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the government's controversial plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful.

The court cited the risk of the refugees having their claims

unfairly assessed in Rwanda and then being returned

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