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Police arrested dozens of people at pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Yale University in Connecticut and New York University in Manhattan on Monday, as the war in Gaza continued to reverberate through U.S. university campuses.

When word came over the weekend that Israel's closest ally, the United States, reportedly plans to hold members of an Israeli military battalion accountable for violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, rights groups saw it as progress.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised on Monday to start sending asylum seekers to Rwanda within 10 to 12 weeks as the upper house of Parliament finally passed required legislation, delayed for weeks by attempts to alter the plan.

For decades, conservationists have been restoring the biodiversity of San Francisco's coastal dunes. But a key piece of the puzzle was missing — until now. 

A Russian missile strike that broke in half a 240-metre television tower in Kharkiv on Monday is part of a deliberate effort by Moscow to make Ukraine's second-largest city uninhabitable, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

A review of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has found it has "robust" frameworks to ensure compliance with humanitarian neutrality principles, though issues persist, in a report that could prompt some donors to review funding freezes.

More bodies were recovered on Monday from what Gaza Civil Defence workers said were mass graves on the site of Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, the biggest in southern Gaza, raising the number of bodies found over the past week to 283. Israel says it was forced to battle inside that and other hospitals because Hamas fighters operated there, which medical staff and Hamas deny.

Donald Trump 'orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election' a prosecutor said as the first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president got underway. The defence hinted at blaming Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, for any wrongdoing.

The head of Israeli military intelligence, who last year accepted responsibility for the failures that allowed the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, has resigned, the military said in a statement on Monday.

A key week of negotiations kicks off Tuesday, as representatives descend on Ottawa to tackle the worldwide issue of plastic pollution. The fourth and penultimate installment of talks tees up a final session later this year in Korea, where parties hope to sign onto a binding global treaty on plastic.

Former U.S. president Donald Trump’s hush-money trial — for allegedly falsifying business records to cover up paying porn star Stormy Daniels to bury her story — is set to start this week in New York City. The world is watching how it will play out and whether it will impact his political future.

An overwhelming majority of the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favour of legislation that would force an ultimatum on TikTok’s parent company, which is partly Chinese owned, to sell within a year or face an outright ban.

Israeli strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight killed 22 people, including 18 children, health officials said Sunday, as the United States was on track to approve billions of dollars of additional military aid to Israel, its close ally.