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UNRWA: 'Desperate' after funding halted

The UN agency has told the BBC it is "extremely desperate" and that "the humanitarian needs in Gaza are growing by the hour".

The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, is to meet leading donors to UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, to discuss the suspension of funding over the alleged role of some staff in the 7 October Hamas attacks on Israel.

The main Unionist party in Northern Ireland says it has agreed to return to the power-sharing executive after reaching a deal over post-Brexit trading arrangements.

And Elon Musk says his Neuralink company has successfully implanted one of its wireless brain chips in a human.

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  • Tue 30 Jan 202406:06GMT