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After a security summit in London, S Kier Stama, Britain's Prime Minister,

said European allies would form a coalition of the willing to guarantee peace in Ukraine.

He said Britain, France and other countries had agreed to develop a plan with Ukraine to end the fighting,

which they would then show to America.

He also announced a deal worth £1.6 billion, $2 billion, for Ukraine to buy missiles.

Other leaders at the summit called for further increases in defence spending.

Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said that Europe

needed to urgently re-arm, and that EU leaders would discuss the matter at an emergency meeting

on Thursday. Meanwhile, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutter suggested that further European

countries would shortly announce rises in spending. Israel stopped aid from entering Gaza as uncertainty grew over the extension of a ceasefire with Hamas.

Earlier, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister, said that Israel would accept a revised proposal

to extend the initial 42-day truce, reportedly suggested by America.

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