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The “yellow line” that divides Gaza under Donald Trump’s ceasefire plan is a “new border” for Israel, the country’s military chief told soldiers deployed in the territory.

The chief of the general staff, Eyal Zamir, said Israel would hold on to its current military positions. These give Israel control of more than half of Gaza, including most agricultural land and the border crossing with Egypt.

“The ‘yellow line’ is a new border line, serving as a forward defensive line for our communities and a line of operational activity,” Zamir said during a visit to meet Israeli reservists in northern Gaza, where he also visited the ruins of the Palestinian towns of Beit Hanoun and Jabaliya.

“We have operational control over extensive parts of the Gaza Strip and we will remain on those defence lines,” Zamir said, according to an English-language transcript of his remarks provided by a military spokesperson.

Palestinians were forced out of this eastern portion of Gaza by Israeli attacks and evacuation orders. Almost all the surviving population, over 2 million people, are now crowded into a narrow zone of coastal sand dunes that is smaller than Washington DC.

Australia is on course to meet a target of eliminating cervical cancer by 2035, which, if achieved, will make it the first country to do so.

The latest report from the Centre for Research Excellence in Cervical Cancer Control reveals rates of the cancer among Australian women continue to fall, and progress is being made towards elimination ‘across most indicators’.

The national cervical cancer rate decreased to 6.3 per 100,000 in 2021, compared to 6.6 per 100,000 in 2020, but the report highlights that continuous monitoring is needed to confirm this is the beginning of a downward trend.

In 2021, there were no cervical cancer cases diagnosed in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982 – with the report stating ‘this remarkable achievement is almost certainly due to the impact of HPV vaccination’.

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Thousands of demonstrators gathered in the western German city of Giessen on Saturday as the far-right Alternative for Germany’s new youth organization was set to kick off its founding convention.

Groups of protesters blocked or tried to block roads in and around the city of some 93,000 people in the early morning. Police said they used pepper spray after stones were thrown at officers at one location.

The new youth organization of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is to be set up in a meeting at Giessen’s convention center. Its predecessor, the Young Alternative — a largely autonomous group with relatively loose links to the party — was dissolved at the end of March after AfD decided to formally cut ties with it.

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BELEM, Brazil, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Ukraine plans to seek nearly $44 billion from Russia for the damage linked to an increase in climate-warming emissions from the ongoing war, a government minister told Reuters.

The move marks the first time a country is claiming damages for such an increase in emissions, including from the fossil fuels, cement and steel used in fighting the war, and from the destruction of trees through resultant fires.

"A lot of damage was caused to water, to land, to forests," said Pavlo Kartashov, the country's deputy minister for economy, environment, and agriculture.

"We have huge amounts of additional CO2 emissions and greenhouse gases," Kartashov told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of the COP30 climate summit in Brazil.

A member of the Russian delegation at COP30 declined to comment.

When Russians look back at 2025, they might remember it as the year when the government took even tighter control of the internet.

Credit cards that won’t buy a ticket on public transport. ATMs that don’t connect to a network. Messaging apps that are down. Cellphones that don’t receive texts or data after a trip abroad. Mothers of diabetic children even complain with alarm that they can’t monitor their kids’ blood glucose levels during outages.

Since Sept. 13, thousands of protesters have been marching in Lima, the capital of Peru, demanding new leadership. They say the conservative administration, which has overseen the murders and extortion of protesters and journalists, is corrupt and does not represent them.

Protests have been ongoing in Peru since 2022, when the conservative government of President Dina Boluarte took power after Congress impeached and removed former President Pedro Castillo, a progressive leftist leader who had a background in organizing. More than 50 protesters were killed under the Boluarte regime.

However, the protests picked up in recent months when the Boluarte administration implemented a pension reform law that mandates contributions by everyone 18 and over — favoring the nation’s private pension fund over its public fund — and limits early withdrawals at a time when employment for many Peruvians is unstable.

Through decentralized campaigns coordinated over social media like WhatsApp, TikTok, Discord and Telegram, young people have organized mass demonstrations in Lima that spread around the country. They were quickly joined by bus and taxi drivers, whose unions have been mobilizing short strikes for over a year to protest extortion.