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Eleven hostages were freed by Hamas.

The fourth such release since Israel and the militant group began a temporary truce on Friday.

Earlier Qatar's foreign ministry said that the truce, originally scheduled to end on Tuesday,

has been extended by two days.

Qatari officials did not give further details about the extension, but the original truce agreement

stipulated that Hamas could buy an additional day for every 10 additional hostages

it released.

The pause in fighting has also allowed supplies of food, fuel and medicine to enter Gaza.

Germany's government presented a budget which would suspend the debt break, a limit on borrowing, enshrined in the Constitution, in order to borrow 45 billion euros or 49 billion dollars to fund green projects and

industrial subsidies on November 15th Germany's constitutional court ruled that a plan to reallocate

60 billion euros earmarked for pandemic spending was unconstitutional.

The budget another snag when Gond von Stryen, a senator he appointed to find coalition partners, resigned owing to a fraud scandal.

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