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In a major foreign policy shift, French president Emmanuel Macron said Paris could recognise a Palestinian state as early as June, at a UN conference in New York. If this took place France would become the first permanent member of the UN Security Council to do so, potentially creating a rift with Israel ally Donald Trump.

As calls for Lebanon&s Hezbollah to disarm gain momentum, a senior official said the group is ready to hold talks with the Lebanese president about its weapons if Israel withdraws from south Lebanon and stops its strikes.

Israeli aircraft struck a residential block in war-ravaged northern Gaza yesterday, killing at least 23 people, officials said, as the renewed fighting in the devastated Palestinian enclave showed no signs of letting up.