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Citing figures from Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry, the UN high commissioner for human rights said that since the start of April, at least 32 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli forces.

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu also announced on Friday a doubling of support for electrification by 2030, from €5.5 billion to €10 billion annually.

Israel has intensified its deadly strikes and evacuation orders in Lebanon. The specter of a new invasion haunts the Lebanese population. The country's south, now a stronghold of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah, has preoccupied Israel and its founding fathers for over a century.

Their first encounter between the French president and the US-born pontiff at the Vatican blended warm personal moments with a sharp rebuke of 'senseless and inhuman violence' in the Middle East.

Gasoline prices surged by 21.2% between February and March – the largest monthly increase since the the government began publishing a gasoline price index in 1967.

The government's defense objectives are incompatible with meeting European public spending commitments, France's main audit institution has warned, pointing to 'certainly difficult choices' ahead.

Powered by a new generation of drones, Ukrainian forces carried out a record number of strikes in March. Russian oil and gas infrastructure became a primary target, impacting global energy prices.

In an extended Truth Social post on Thursday, the US president also said he hoped Brigitte Macron wins her defamation suit against Candace Owens. 'Actually, to me, the First Lady of France is a far more beautiful woman than Candace, in fact, it's not even close!' he added.

At the historic meeting on Friday, China's President Xi Jinping said he had 'full confidence' that China and Taiwan would be united, while the KMT leader called for 'avoiding war.'

'With his passing, we reflect on his contributions to the genre and broader culture, which continue to this day,' his former label Tommy Boy Records said in tribute.

The American painter, who took part in the urban art movement in New York in the 1970s, had not been exhibited in France since 1962.

The failure of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the March 22 and 23 referendum on judicial reform marks a lost ideological battle against the founding principles of the Italian Republic, which emerged from the anti-fascist resistance.

Robert Puzser, an intellectual and outspoken critic of the Fidesz party led by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, is organizing this historic free show on Friday, April 10, to urge citizens to turn out for Sunday's legislative elections.

The bill is a 'vehicle for the construction of future prosperity' and an 'instrument that protects' mining workers across the country, National Assembly president Jorge Rodriguez told lawmakers after the measure was approved.

Although it was secured at the last minute, the ceasefire agreement between Iran and the US marks a diplomatic victory for Islamabad, which is set to host American and Iranian delegations on Friday for peace talks.

Grappling with record inflation, mass job losses and a harshening of political repression, the current calm feels both fragile and uncertain to many Iranian people.

Jeffrey Epstein died in federal custody in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges involving minors, but the scandal has repeatedly overshadowed Donald Trump's second presidency. 'I was not a participant. Was never on Epstein's plane, and never visited his private island,' the first lady said.

Escalating Israeli strikes on Lebanon raise fears the fragile ceasefire with Iran could unravel.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had proposed a temporary truce earlier this week. Putin has instructed the Russian General Staff 'to cease combat operations in all directions for this period,' the Kremlin said.

The MSG, sailing under the Gabonese flag, became on Thursday the first non-Iranian oil tanker to navigate this route since the fragile US-Iran truce took effect.