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Marco Rubio arrived in Israel for talks with Benjamin Netanyahu.

America's Secretary of State accompanied Israel's Prime Minister to visit the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

Mr. Rubio admitted that his boss, Donald Trump, was unhappy about Israel's attempt last week to assassinate Hamas leaders in Qatar.

Meanwhile, Israeli forces continued their assault on Gaza City, leveling 30 residential buildings.

Romania scrambled F-16 jets after a Russian drone entered its airspace, the country's defense

ministry said. They tracked the low-flying

drone until it disappeared from the radar. It is the second time in the past week that Russia has

breached the airspace of a NATO country. On Wednesday, 19 drones were fired into Poland in a test

of NATO's credibility. According to exit polls from elections in the German state of North Rhine Restvalia,

the ruling Christian Democrats won 34% of the vote,

but the hard-right alternative for Germany more than tripled its support to almost 17%.

14 million people were eligible to vote in Germany's most popular state,

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