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 The US has carried out its first airdrop of humanitarian aid for Gaza, with more than 30,000 meals parachuted in by three military planes. The operation, carried out jointly with Jordan's Air Force, was the first of many announced by President Joe Biden. The head of a well-known aid organisation told the BBC he thought there was a famine in northern Gaza. At least 112 people were killed as crowds rushed to an aid convoy outside Gaza city on Thursday. Hamas has accused them for the killing. Israel denies this and says it is investigating. The first US airdrop comes as a top US official said the framework of a deal for a six-week ceasefire in Gaza was in place. The Biden administration official said on Saturday that Israel had "more or less accepted" the deal. "It will be a six-week ceasefire in Gaza starting today if Hamas agrees to release the defined category of vulnerable hostages (...) the sick, the wounded, elderly and women," the unnamed official said. Med...

 France is preparing to become the first country in the world to put the right to abortion in its constitution. On Monday, parliamentarians from the upper and lower chambers will meet in special session in the Palace of Versailles, summoned by President Emmanuel Macron. If, as expected, they vote for the government's motion by a three-fifths majority, then the country's 1958 constitution will be revised to enshrine women's "guaranteed freedom" to abort. It will be the 25th amendment to the Fifth Republic's founding document, and the first since 2008. Spurred by the end of federal protection of abortion rights in the US two years ago, supporters are exuberant over the revision - which they see as insurance against any similar backpedalling in France. Polls show around 85% of the French public support the reform. Resistance from right-wingers in parliament has failed to materialize. On 1 February French protestors voiced their support for abortion rights from a ...

A Ukrainian man selling a poison thought to be linked to at least 130 UK deaths has been identified by the BBC. Leonid Zakutenko advertised his services on a website promoting suicide and he told an undercover reporter he sent five parcels a week to the UK. He has been supplying the same substance as Canadian Kenneth Law, who was arrested last year and is now facing 14 murder charges. Mr Zakutenko denied the claims when challenged by the BBC. He was tracked down to his home in Kyiv and denied that he sold the deadly chemical, which the BBC is choosing not to name. However, our investigation found that he has been supplying the substance for years. The chemical can legally be sold in the UK, but only to companies using it for a legitimate purpose. Suppliers must not sell to customers unless they have carried out basic checks on what the substance is to be used for. It can prove fatal if ingested in even small doses. 'Contemptible' Zakutenko was described as a "contemptible ...

A former career US diplomat who had served as the US ambassador to Bolivia has pleaded guilty to working as an agent of Cuba for more than 40 years. Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, was charged with secretly passing information to the communist-run Cuban government since 1981 while working for the US state department. On Thursday, he changed his initial not guilty plea in a court in Miami. He is due to be sentenced at a hearing on 12 April. The move brings one of the highest profile espionage cases between Cuba and the US to an unexpectedly rapid conclusion. The Cuban spying case that has shocked the US government Thursday's court hearing was supposed to be about how to handle classified documents involved in the case, according to the Miami Herald. But instead, Mr Rocha, his lawyers, and prosecutors acknowledged that a plea deal had been struck. When Judge Beth Bloom asked him if he wished to change his plea to guilty, he responded: "Your honour, I am in agreement." He is charge...

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin has been pressed by lawmakers for not informing the White House of recent hospital stays, with one calling the failure an "embarrassment". The Pentagon chief acknowledged there was "a breakdown in notifications" about his January hospital stay during a contentious Thursday hearing. Mr Austin, 70, has been undergoing prostate cancer treatment. The Pentagon has found no "indication of ill intent" by Mr Austin. "I never told anyone not to inform the president, White House or anyone else about my hospitalization," Mr Austin said in testimony before the House Armed Services Committee, the first chance lawmakers have had to question him since the incident came to light earlier this year. Representative Mike Rogers said it was "totally unacceptable" it took three days for the president to be informed Mr Austin was in hospital. "Wars were raging in Ukraine and Israel, our ships were under fire in the Red S...