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Israeli protesters rally in Tel Aviv for the second consecutive day of demonstrations to step up pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a truce-for-hostages deal or else step down, as the public mood sours on the nine-month war. IMAGES
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announces that May 2024 was the warmest May on record worldwide "marking the twelfth month in a row" to be the warmest month. SOUNDBITE
A rare total solar eclipse plunges the city of Ingram, Texas into complete darkness at 1:33 pm local time (1833 GMT). The "path of totality," where the Moon completely obscures the Sun's light, will streak across the United States, before returning to the ocean over Canada's Atlantic coast, in a celestial spectacle witnessed by tens of millions of people. IMAGES
Aid is airdropped into northern Gaza as the Israeli-Hamas war enters its seventh month. Talks in Cairo towards a Gaza truce and hostage release deal have made "significant progress", Egyptian state-linked media reported Monday, more than half a year into the war started by the October 7 attack. IMAGES
Images of Rafah in the south of Gaza as the Israel-Hamas war that has killed thousands and devastated the Gaza Strip enters its seventh month, with talks towards a truce and a hostage release deal expected to resume in Cairo. IMAGES