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Israel continued attacking Gaza as the Holy Month of Ramadan began.

The Israel Defence Forces reportedly struck a site on Saturday

where Marwan Isa, a leader of the Khassam brigades, Hamas's armed wing, may have been hiding and is trying to confirm whether he was killed.

Meanwhile the departure of the first ship carrying humanitarian aid from Cyprus to Gaza was delayed.

President Joe Biden proposed a $7.3 trillion budget for the coming fiscal year.

The plan proposes lower costs of child care and housing, among other things.

That would be funded by higher taxes on corporations and the rich.

But Mr Biden's proposal will likely not pass the House of Representatives, which is controlled

by Republicans.

Following his visit to Maralago last week, Victor Orbán, Hungary's autocratic Prime Minister,

told Hungarian state media that, as President Donald Trump would, quote, not give a single penny in support of Ukraine therefore the war

will end. Mr Trump's wing of the Republican Party is increasingly resistant to

funding Ukraine as is Mr. Orbán, who until last month held

up European efforts to send more aid.

France suffered a series of cyber attacks of unprecedented intensity, according to the Prime Minister's office.

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