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CAIRO (Reuters) – Israeli strikes killed 77 Palestinians in Gaza in the past 24 hours, health authorities said on Sunday, as Egypt hosted an Israeli delegation for a new round of talks in a bid to secure a truce with Gaza’s Hamas rulers.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Jerusalem on Sunday against Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and against exemptions granted to ultra-Orthodox Jewish men from military service, in scenes reminiscent of mass street protests last year.

ISTANBUL,  (Reuters) – Turks punished President Tayyip Erdogan and his party today in nationwide local elections that reasserted the opposition as a political force and reinforced Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu as the president’s chief future rival.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Truce talks between Israel and Hamas will resume today in Cairo, the latest attempt to bring about a pause after nearly six months of war in the Gaza Strip, Egypt’s Al Qahera News TV reported on Saturday, citing a security source.

SHENZHEN, China,  (Reuters) – China’s manufacturing activity expanded for the first time in six months in March, an official factory survey showed today, offering relief to policymakers even as a crisis in the property sector remains a drag on the economy and confidence.

LARNACA, Cyprus,  (Reuters) – Ships carrying 332 tons of food for Gaza left Cyprus’s Larnaca port yesterday in a convoy which will reach the besieged enclave early next week, authorities said.

(Reuters) – Salvage crews worked to lift the first piece of Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge from the water yesterday to allow barges and tugboats to access the disaster site, Maryland and U.S.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – There has been a surge of migrant workers leaving Russia for Tajikistan after a March 22 concert hall attack near Moscow which left dozens dead, according to Tajikistan’s Ministry of Labour, Migration and Employment.

ATHENS,  (Reuters) – Greek authorities have arrested a senior member of an international gang that smuggled Latin American fuel products for illegal sale around the world, raking in an estimated profit of more than $21 billion, police said yesterday.

LARNACA, Cyprus  (Reuters) – A second shipment of aid carrying almost 400 tons of food for Gaza left Cyprus’s Larnaca port today, a Reuters witness said.

JAKARTA,  (Reuters) – Indonesian firefighters were struggling to put out a massive fire that broke out today at a military ammunition facility just outside the capital, causing a series of explosions and sending clouds of smoke into the night sky.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Israel carried out its deadliest strikes in months on northern Syria’s Aleppo province today and said it killed a senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon, stepping up its campaign against Iran’s proxies in parallel with its war in Gaza.

MAMATLAKALA, South Africa,  (Reuters) – A bus crash in northern South Africa killed 45 pilgrims travelling from Botswana for Easter festivities yesterday, authorities said, with the sole survivor an eight-year-old girl currently being treated in hospital.

 THE HAGUE/CAIRO,  (Reuters) – The World Court yesterday unanimously ordered Israel, accused by South Africa of genocide in Gaza, to take all necessary and effective action to ensure basic food supplies to the enclave’s Palestinian population and halt spreading famine.

SAMREBOI, Ghana,  (Reuters) – Surveying the stripped landscape of her farm – dotted with pools of cyanide-tainted, tea coloured waste water left by illegal gold miners – is enough to make Janet Gyamfi break down.

SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Authorities in Singapore said they charged two former officials of Sembcorp Marine today with handing bribes to Brazilian officials to advance the company’s interests in the South American nation.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Israel has asked the White House to reschedule a high-level meeting on military plans for Gaza’s southern city of Rafah that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had abruptly canceled, officials said yesterday, in an apparent bid to ease tensions between the two allies.

(Reuters) – Nearly 500 immigration and human rights organizations signed a letter urging the U.S.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Creating technological barriers and severing industrial supply chains would only lead to confrontation, Chinese President Xi Jinping warned today, as new Dutch policies on chip exports to China threaten to strain bilateral ties.

(Reuters) – Walt Disney  DIS.N and appointees of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis reached a settlement on Wednesday to end a high-profile lawsuit in state court over control of the special district that includes the Walt Disney World theme parks.