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•  Israel signed agreements to normalize diplomatic ties with the UAE and Bahrain at the White House.
• Microsoft’s founder “Bill Gates’s” father “William” died yesterday at his beach home on Hood Canal in Washington.
• “Yoshihide Suga” has been elected as the new Prime Minister of Japan.
• Turkish police detain 106 over alleged Gulen links.
• UK repatriates British children from Syria.
• Saudi Arabia reiterates support to enable Palestinians to establish an independent state.
• Kurds again under threat of clampdown in Turkey.
• Yemeni government renews commitment to lasting peace, slams Houthis for undermining process.
• In Libya, at least 24 migrants have died when a boat sank on the Mediterranean Sea.
• Coronavirus infections in India soared past five million today.