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Our top stories. Hamas released six additional hostages, bringing today's total to eight, the Israel Defence Forces announced.

Israel is expected to release 30 Palestinians in turn.

Earlier Israel and Hamas agreed to extend a truce,

which began on Friday by at least one day.

At a news conference in Tel Aviv, Anthony Blinkin, America's

Secretary of State, said Israel must put in place quote humanitarian civilian protection plans before fighting resumes.

Israel agreed with the approach, he said.

Henry Kissinger, America's former Secretary of State, died aged 100, a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

He shaped World Affairs under President Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and oversaw America's withdrawal from Vietnam.

His shuttle diplomacy helped stabilize the Middle East after the Yom Kippur War in 1973, but his legacy is controversial.

In the 1970s he supported Pakistan while it carried out massacres in what is now Bangladesh.

OPEC Plus, a group of oil exporting countries,

reportedly agreed to make additional oil supply cuts of 1 million barrels per day.

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