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Russia has cemented a substantial battlefield win in Eastern Ukraine tonight after a grinding four-month fight. Moscow says its forces cleared the last Ukrainian defenders from Avdiivka, a bombed-out city in the Donetsk region. Russian military footage showed attacks on a sprawling industrial site in Avdiivka. Ukraine said its forces had to retreat because of a lack of ammunition.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned today that Russia is exploiting the delay of new American aid.
Twenty-six members of the European Union are calling for an immediate humanitarian pause in Gaza. That came today as Hamas health officials reported the Gaza death toll has passed 29,000. And Israel released security camera video purportedly showing a hostage and her two small boys wrapped in a sheet. They were seen in Khan Yunis in Gaza just after being taken captive in October.
The U.N.’s top court has kicked off a six-day hearing into Israel’s 57-year occupation of the land that Palestinians want for a state of their own. Diplomats filed into the International Court of Justice at The Hague today. The Palestinian foreign minister opened with accusations of Israeli apartheid.