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The UN General Assembly passed a resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza.

More than 150 member states voted for the non-binding resolution.

10, including America, voted against.

Earlier, Joe Biden said that global support for

Israel's quote, indiscriminate bombing in Gaza is waning and that Benjamin

Netanyahu Israel's Prime Minister, quote,

doesn't want a two-state solution.

Mr. Netanyahu separately omitted that Israel and America

do not agree over how Gaza will be governed after the war.

Some 85% of Gaza's population, 1.9 million people, have been displaced and half its people are starving.

In a critical victory for Rishi Sunak, Britain's Prime Minister, the House of Commons

passed the safety of Rwanda Bill, despite a number of his

party's MPs abstaining. Courts have blocked Mr Sunach's attempt to deport asylum seekers

who arrive in Britain on small boats to Rwanda,

deeming it unsafe.

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