Fighting continued in the Southern Gaza city of Rafah,as Qatar faced a stalemate in its Gaza cease-fire negotiations,and the International Criminal Court heard arguments in the genocide case against Israel.This comes as the US completed a floating pier to deliver aid to Gaza,and moved ahead on a new $1B arms sale to Israel,while a US army officer resigned over Washington's support for Israel.Meanwhile, the US backed Saudia Arabia's effort to revive a peace deal with Yemen's Houthi rebels,Tehran and Washington reportedly held secret talks over tensions in the Middle East,and an Australian military whistleblower was jailed.Elsewhere, Ukrainian Pres. Volodymyr Zelenskyy canceled his upcoming foreign trips amid a fresh Russian offensive,as Ukraine urged Washington to lift its ban on US weapons striking Russian territoryand changed its military leadership in Kharkiv.

Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot and seriously injured,Russia's Vladimir Putin met with Xi Jinping in China,where the two leaders announced a "new era" of cooperation,and Greece's Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan met for talks.This comes as Spain said it would recognize a Palestinian state together with other countries,violent protests in New Caledonia prompted an emergency declaration in France,and Georgia's president vetoed a divisive "foreign influence" bill.Meanwhile, US Pres. Joe Biden announced new tariffs on Chinese EVs and solar panels,North Korea reportedly laundered $147.5M in stolen cryptocurrency,Germany reported a 28% increase in cyberattacks from foreign entities,and a German court ruled that the country's intelligence agencies can monitor the AfD party as a suspected extremist group.

Donald Trump accepted Biden's presidential debate challenge,as a new poll showed the former president leading in five swing states,and the GOP primaries saw former Larry Hogan win in Maryland and Jim Justice in West Virginia.This comes as House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared at Trump's New York criminal trial,where former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen testifiedand admitted that he had lied under oath,and Sen. Mitt Romney said Biden should have pardoned Trump.Meanwhile, Biden invoked executive privilege in the classified documents probe,Sen. Robert Menendez's corruption trial began,and SCOTUS ordered Louisiana to use a congressional map with two majority-Black districts.

Police arrested several pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of California,a Muslim advocacy group sued Texas Gov. Greg Abbott over his ban on anti-Israel protests,and the Arizona Supreme Court delayed the enforcement of the state's 1864 abortion law.Meanwhile, a study found that anti-LGBTQ+ violence has surged in Europe,YouTube blocked access to a banned protest anthem in Hong Kong,and Tunisian lawyers launched a strike in protest of the arrest of two colleagues.

The man convicted of attacking Paul Pelosi was sentenced to 30 years in prison,Texas pardoned a man convicted of killing a Black Lives Matter protester,golf champion Scottie Scheffler was arrested,and Biden moved to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug.Meanwhile, in France, police killed a man suspected of setting fire to a synagogue,as a nationwide manhunt for an escaped prisoner was launched.

OpenAI revealed the latest version of its chatbot ChatGPT,as it dissolved its artificial intelligence monitoring team,and scientists appeared to solve the mystery behind Egypt's pyramids.

OpenAI gave Reddit access to ChatGPT,Melinda Gates resigned as co-chair of the Gates Foundation,and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill redirected its diversity funding to public safety.This comes as the EU opened a child safety probe against Meta,and China's Nio launched a rival to Tesla's Model Y.

The US suspended funding for the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance,a study warned that obese children may have half the average life expectancy,and researchers found that weight loss drugs may reduce the risk of heart attacks by 20%.

A study found that last summer was the hottest in 2K years,smoke from over 100 Canadian wildfires drifted into the US,and a summit on clean cooking in Africa was held in Paris.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly crossed 40K for the first time in history,and SCOTUS upheld the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding mechanism.

The US Coast Guard began an inquiry following the collapse of a bridge in Baltimore.

A report found that a record 76M people are internally displaced worldwide,and nearly 100 aid groups urged Elon Musk to keep Starlink active in Sudan.

The Vatican tightened its rules on probing alleged miracles.