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"We are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of life in Rafa over the weekend," says US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller in a press briefing. An Israeli strike on Sunday set ablaze a crowded camp in Rafah, killing 45 people, according to Palestinian officials, and sparking global outrage. SOUNDBITE
At the start of his appearance at the UK's Covid-19 inquiry, Prime Minister and former Chancellor Rishi Sunak says he is "deeply sorry... to all of those who lost loved ones, family members, through the pandemic." SOUNDBITE
Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin says he is "deeply shocked and very saddened" after an Irish member of the UN peacekeeping force monitoring south Lebanon near the Israeli border was killed. Martin speaks just after his arrival in Brussels for an EU summit. SOUNDBITE
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer offers a state apology for the Grenfell Tower fire disaster that killed 72 people in 2017, as the release of a final report found the deaths were avoidable. "It should never have happened. The country failed to discharge its most fundamental duty. To protect you and your loved ones, the people that we are here to serve. And I am deeply sorry," Starmer says in a statement to parliament. SOUNDBITE
The deaths of 72 people in Britain's 2017 Grenfell inferno were "all avoidable", says inquiry chairman Martin Moore-Bick following the release of a damning final report on the disaster. The highly-critical report marks the end of a two-part independent inquiry led by the retired judge Moore-Bick into Britain's worst residential fire since World War II. SOUNDBITE