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Spain will provide Ukraine with €1bn in military aid this year after the Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, and Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, met in Madrid to sign an “enormously important”, decade-long defence and security deal.

Japan confirmed with South Korea and China the importance of North Korean denuclearization at a trilateral summit on Monday, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said, hours after Pyongyang announced a plan to launch a satellite-carrying rocket.

North Korea fired what it claims to be a military spy satellite Monday, but the projectile ended up as multiple pieces of debris shortly after launch, South Korea's military said, an apparent indication that Pyongyang's satellite launch plan ended in failure.

The first exchange of fire occurred on the outskirts of Peshawar, the capital of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing six militants and two army officers, according to Pakistan's military.

Israel has killed at least 36,050 Palestinians — including babies, children, and women — and wounded 81,026 in its 234-day war on Gaza.

Qatar calls attack that killed at least 40 Palestinians a ‘grave violation of international laws’ and UN special rapporteur urges sanctions on Israel.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani has said that the great extent of the international solidarity and sympathy over the martyrdom of president Ebrahim Raisi and his entourage is a sign of the Islamic Republic’s successful foreign policy.

South Korea and China agreed to set up a high-level diplomatic and security dialogue between the two countries during a meeting between President Yoon Suk Yeol and Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Seoul, Sunday.

The interim Iranian president Mohammad Mokhber said Sunday that promoting the relations and cooperation with the Islamic and neighboring countries pursued by late resident Ebrahim Raeisi will continue.

Israel has killed at least 35,984 Palestinians — including babies, children, and women — and wounded 80,643 in its 233-day war on Gaza.