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Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister, said that he had ordered Israeli forces

to draw up plans to evacuate the civilian population of Raffer,

a city in southern Gaza, where 1.4 million Palestinians have sought refuge.

Earlier America said that Israel's expected ground offensive in the city would be a quote disaster.

And Joe Biden said that the country's actions in Gaza had been quote

over the top.

Nowaz Sharif, a former Prime Minister of Pakistan, claimed victory following the country's general election

and said he would seek a coalition government. His party secured 69 of the 244 seats

so far announced.

But independent candidates, most backed by Imran Khan

an imprisoned former Prime Minister disqualified from running

have won 98. The election was marred by violence and irregularities.

Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, suggested that Evan Gerskovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter held in Moscow on spying charges,

could be swapped for a Russian assassin detained in Germany.

During a rambling interview with Tucker Carlson, his first with Western media since he invaded Ukraine,

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