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Karim Benzema has filed a complaint for defamation against the country's Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin over claims he had "notorious" links with the Muslim Brotherhood.

UN Food Programme warns that the risk of famine in Gaza is rising every day as the food situation slips deeper into a catastrophe.

The US has reaffirmed its commitment to deeper ties with Africa, according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken who began a visit to several African countries on Monday.

Dozens of people were buried and three confirmed killed when a landslide struck a remote and mountainous part of southwestern China on Monday. The pre-dawn landslide buried 18 homes and sparked the evacuation of more than 200 people when it struck in Zhenxiong County, Yunnan province, state media said.

Fighting raged across Gaza and Israeli units raided the West Bank on Sunday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has faced growing domestic criticism, rejected calls for post-war "Palestinian sovereignty". Alongside fierce fighting in southern Gaza and across the besieged territory, strikes in Syria and Iraq raised fears of a wider conflagration.

Staff at Sports Illustrated, the famed American sports magazine that became a fixture for athletes and fans, were laid off on Friday by publisher The Arena Group. According to the SI employees union, Arena group missed a licensing rights payment to brand owner Authentic Brands Group (ABG), which ended its deal with Arena, prompting layoff notices being sent.

Mexican authorities have arrested an alleged cartel leader over the kidnapping of four Americans, which resulted in the deaths of two of them, local media reported Friday. The man, identified as one of the "main targets" of the US Drug Enforcement Administration, "was one of the key leaders of one of the criminal organisations with the greatest presence in the state of Tamaulipas", the Navy Secretariat said in a statement on Thursday, without naming the suspect.

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza on Friday said the war between militants and Israel has killed 24,762 people in the Palestinian territory. The toll includes 142 fatalities over the past 24 hours, a ministry statement said, while 62,108 people have been wounded since war erupted on October 7.

The death toll from a landslide in the southern Philippines has risen to 10, a disaster official said Friday, as the search for one missing person continued. Fourteen people were gathered in a house for a prayer meeting in the mountainous gold mining region of Davao de Oro province when the landslide hit Thursday following days of heavy rain.