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By Valerie Volcovici

Nate Diaz, the former UFC star, has been extended an open invitation to face Jake Paul in the PFL SmartCage. PFL founder Donn Davis remains optimistic about the possibility of this matchup, even though it might not materialize in the near future.

Israeli defence forces have completely destroyed Hamas's infrastructure in northern Gaza except the underground tunnels and the focus at the end of the current pause in fighting will be to clean up the southern part of the strip, Israeli Ambassador Naor Gilon said on Tuesday. In an interaction with a group of journalists, the envoy also described India's position on the Gaza crisis as «remarkable» from the day one and especially mentioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's strong denunciation of Hamas's unprecedented terror attack on Israeli cities on October 7.

Telangana Assembly polls came to an end at 5 pm Tuesday, after witnessing the longest poll season among the five states including Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Rajasthan, which have already completed the voting process of their elections. The upcoming Telangana Assembly elections is going to witness a triangular contest between Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), the Congress, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The ruling BRS is trying to retain power for the third consecutive term, while the Congress is vigorously trying make a comeback, and the BJP is also confident to win a clear majority to get into power in the state.

Investing.com — The U.S. dollar edged higher in early European trade Tuesday, but remained near a three-month low as traders awaited key inflation data amid growing conviction that the Federal Reserve has completed its rate-hiking cycle.

Increasing numbers of ships are streaming toward Ukraine’s Black Sea ports and heading out loaded with grain, metals and other cargo despite the threat of attack and explosive mines

A shaky cease-fire between Israel and Hamas has allowed a surge of aid to reach Palestinians in Gaza, but humanitarian groups and civilians in the enclave say the convoys aren’t nearly enough to address the needs of the strip’s two million people. Despite the pause in fighting, Palestinians in Gaza are burning door frames and piles of garbage to cook, sleeping crammed into school classrooms and strangers’ homes, and scrambling onto trucks bringing aid from Egypt in a desperate grab for supplies, residents say. The cease-fire has also allowed Gazans a chance to bury the dead and to take stock of entire neighborhoods that have been reduced to rubble during seven weeks of Israeli bombing.

By Leika Kihara

Elon Musk that the tech mogul has "a huge role to play" in combating anti-Semitism, which his social media platform is accused of spreading, according to AFP reports. The meeting came after the world's richest person visited a kibbutz community devastated in attacks by Hamas militants on October 7, and met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defense officials. Musk has been criticized over what critics say is a proliferation of hate speech on X, formerly Twitter, since his takeover of the social media site in October 2022.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Israel, the West Bank, Belgium, North Macedonia and UAE this week. It is Blinken's third visit to Israel since Hamas launched an attack on southern Israel on October 7.

By Ankur Banerjee

Kyiv Monday after being stuck in a Dutch museum for nine years, where they were on show when Russia seized the Black Sea peninsula in 2014. Ukraine hailed the arrival of the jewels in the midst of the Russian full-scale 2022 invasion as a victory for its «identity and freedom». The Scythian artefacts — some around 2,000 years old — were on loan to Amsterdam's Allard Pierson museum when they suddenly were at the centre of a geopolitical crisis following Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea. Years of legal battles ensued, with both Kyiv and Moscow-controlled Crimean museums filing suits that the jewels should be in their hands, before the Dutch Supreme Court ruled this summer they should go to Ukraine. «After almost 10 years of trials, artefacts from four museums of Crimea… returned to Ukraine,» the National Museum of the History of Ukraine (NMHU) said on its website. «They will be kept in the NMHU until the de-occupation of Crimea,» it added. Their return comes 21 months into Moscow's offensive, and is a symbolic win for Ukraine, which has repeatedly vowed to retake Crimea.

By Clark Mindock

By Christian Kraemer

BRS working president KT Rama Rao slammed the Congress party for approaching the Election Commission of India (ECI) and filing a complaint to stop the disbursement of the money under Rythu Bandhu scheme. KT Rama Rao said that the Election Commission had earlier granted permission for the disbursement of the money under the Rythu Bandhu scheme but the permission was revoked after the Congress party filed a complaint. «Congress party even before coming to power had made sure Rythu Bandhu's money did not reach the farmers.

By Dan Williams and Howard Goller

By Lucia Mutikani

Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival," suggests that Princess Anne played a crucial role in King Charles' decision to remove Prince Harry and Meghan Markle from Frogmore Cottage. The 73-year-old Princess reportedly influenced Charles to revoke the couple's rights to the property, initially given to them as a wedding gift by Queen Elizabeth II. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, no longer active members of the Royal Family and residing abroad, were formally asked to return the keys to Frogmore Cottage.

Antonio Guterres pushed on Monday for a full humanitarian ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas instead of a temporary truce, as the «humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is getting worse by the day.» Egyptian, Qatari and U.S. negotiators closed in on an extension of a four-day truce in Gaza that expires on Monday, Egyptian security sources said, amid growing global pressure to roll over a deal which has paused seven weeks of fighting.

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Samrhitha A

FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Euro zone inflation pressures are easing as expected but wage growth is still strong and the outlook is especially uncertain, so the European Central Bank's fight to contain price growth is not yet done, ECB President Christine Lagarde said on Monday.