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President Volodymyr Zelensky says the decision was taken to save the lives of Ukrainian soldiers.

The Israeli military says the captives were killed shortly before troops discovered them in the Rafah area.

Ukraine’s capital has been attacked 16 times this month – the latest, unusually, came in daytime.

The EU is reportedly preparing fresh sanctions over an escalating migrant crisis at Belarus’s border.

A series of records on temperature, ocean heat, and Antarctic sea ice are “unprecedented”, some scientists say.