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Heavy smoke billows as strikes hit central and southern Gaza, seen from Israel. IMAGES
The UN considers that there is a "strong probability" that the children's hospital in Kyiv was hit by a "direct hit" from a Russian missile, according to the representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Ukraine, who speaks remotly during a UN press briefing in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
Passangers arrive at Singapore Changi Airport after their Singapore Airlines flight hit severe turbulence that triggered an emergency landing in Bangkok, Thailand. A 73-year-old British man died and more than 70 people were injured Tuesday in what passengers described as a terrifying scene. An initial data analysis by the aviation tracking service Flightradar24 suggested the London-Singapore flight experienced more than one minute of extreme turbulence at around 11,300 metres (37,000 feet) over Myanmar, during which it violently rose and plunged several times. IMAGES
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visits a flood-hit area in the southwestern German state of Saarland, alongside state premier Anke Rehlinger, after heavy rain swamps streets and buildings and forces evacuations. At least one person is injured but no deaths have been reported. IMAGES
Huge clouds of smoke rises over buildings after Israeli air strikes hit Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, where heavy fighting raged between Israeli troops and Hamas fighters. IMAGES
A hospital in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv is evacuating its patients and staff over fears of Russian strikes following claims by Belarus's secret services that it, along with another medical facility, hosted military personnel. "The city is urgently beginning to evacuate two hospitals... because a video is widely circulated online, actually de facto announcing an enemy attack on these medical facilities," Kyiv's city administration said. IMAGES