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Palestinians on Tuesday buried 112 members of a single clan killed in Israeli air strikes in November 2023, after their remains were recovered from beneath the rubble last month.

Relatives of the Abu Shari'a and al-Hasayna family gathered in Gaza City to bid a final farewell to their loved ones, whose bodies lay in rows draped in Palestinian flags.

For many, it was a moment of both relief and renewed grief after nearly 1,000 days of waiting to recover the bodies of their relatives.

"There is a feeling of both pain and joy," Amer Abu Shari'a, who lost relatives in the attack, told Middle East Eye.

"Joy because we will bury and honour these martyrs after three years. But the sorrow has returned, as if the massacre happened today."

The strike on the Sabra neighbourhood was one of the deadliest single-strike casualty events of the two-year genocide.

Israeli warplanes flattened an entire residential block where hundreds of members of the Abu Shari'a and al-Hasayna clan had been living and sheltering.

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A joint intervention between Japan and the Trump administration has caused the U.S. dollar to sink against the yen. 

Markets show the U.S. dollar sits at 156.80 yen as of Monday morning after reaching a 40-year high of 164 yen in July.

The drop follows the Treasury Department’s decision to sell off euros for yen on Friday in an effort to intervene on behalf of Tokyo’s deflating currency. 

The amount of euros used to purchase yen was not made clear by the Financial Times, which reported the move launched by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Sales were conducted through Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, two people familiar with the matter told the outlet.

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Russian missiles tore into the Ukrainian capital before dawn on Saturday, killing nine people and injuring more than 30 others as part of an intensive, ongoing Russian air campaign.

"This was a horrific night for Kyiv," Vitali Klitschko, the city's mayor, said in a social media post.

The Russian attack included 35 missiles and 185 attack drones, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Only one of 27 ballistic missiles were shot down due to the country's dwindling supply of Patriot air defense missiles, the one weapon the country has to guard against such Russian attacks, Zelenskyy also said.

The bombardment hit five areas of Kyiv, setting off fires that sent rescue crews scrambling throughout the night to pull residents from damaged and burning apartment blocks.

Firefighters doused gutted buildings with hoses. Their beams cut through smoke and darkness, while charred cars were parked in the street and in apartment courtyards. One image taken by the Associated Press showed a covered body near a cluster of burned-out vehicles. In another, blood pooled across a crosswalk littered with broken glass and debris from the blasts.

The Italian government on Friday imposed border checks with Spain in response to an influx of tens of thousands of migrants in the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta.The Italian government on Friday imposed border checks with Spain in response to an influx of tens of thousands of migrants in the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta.

These air and sea border controls will remain in place for August, according to Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who has promised to cut down on illegal immigration, called the decision an “extraordinary measure” that was taken to safeguard the country’s national security.

The move will impact flights and maritime transport and temporarily suspends Spain’s Schengen border-free rights, an agreement that allows citizens of European member states to move freely among 29 countries.

These air and sea border controls will remain in place for August, according to Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi. 

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who has promised to cut down on illegal immigration, called the decision an “extraordinary measure” that was taken to safeguard the country’s national security.

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US President Donald Trump on Friday told reporters that the "Board of Peace" will be the one to collect Hamas's weapons as the group begins to disarm, even though the board itself had announced that a Palestinian technocratic body will assume that role.

The details matter because the statements marked the first on-camera opportunity for the president to build confidence in the Board of Peace announcement - an organisation for which he is chairman for life.

"As Hamas disarms as part of this plan, who do you see is taking possession of those weapons that they have? Does that go to the new government?" a reporter asked Trump during his cabinet meeting at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland.

"It's going to be run by the Board of Peace. This Board of Peace has been amazing. It's led by some amazing people," the president responded.

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Russia launched a mass ballistic missile attack on Kyiv early Saturday, killing at least four people and injuring 15 others as repeated explosions shook the Ukrainian capital.

Among the wounded were two boys aged 13 and 17, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. All 15 injured residents were taken to city hospitals. The casualty figures remained preliminary as emergency crews continued searching damaged buildings.

AFP journalists in Kyiv reported that “more than 10 explosions were heard in a row,” with the force of the blasts triggering car alarms across the city.

Klitschko had urged residents to remain in shelters as ballistic missiles approached the capital.

The attack caused fires and destruction across the Solomianskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, Darnytskyi and Holosiivskyi districts.

In the Solomianskyi district, a strike set fire to a six-story non-residential building. Cars burned in a parking area, while people were trapped inside a damaged five-story residential building and a fire broke out in its courtyard.

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