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With Israel’s evacuation order in the centre of Khan Younis, the number of safer areas inside Gaza is reducing by the day. The World Health Organization (WHO) has described the situation as “catastrophic,” as it unanimously adopted a resolution calling for immediate medical access to Gaza. In addition, hostilities underscoring Israel's assault on Hamas are having a significant impact beyond the Gaza Strip, as a global diplomatic effort continues to unfold to find a way to stop the fighting. With only two days left of the United Nations (UN) COP28 climate summit, major energy producers are pushing back against an international commitment to end the use of oil and gas, with OPEC nations among those resisting the hardest. In an exciting medical breakthrough, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved two sickle cell treatments, including the first to use the gene-editing tool CRISPR. Venezuela and Guyana have agreed to a high-level meeting next week, over the status of a dispute between the two South American nations. A veteran safe breaker has cracked the code of a mysterious safe that has stayed sealed shut inside a historic hotel in downtown Winnipeg since at least the 1990s.