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• Israel and Hamas agree on Gaza truce after the Egyptian mediation. Israel and Hamas will enter a "mutual and simultaneous" Gaza truce at 2 a.m on Friday (2300 GMT Thursday), a Hamas official told Reuters.
• US President Joe Biden will make televised remarks on the ceasefire announced between Hamas and Israeli military.
• The "deceitful way" Princess Diana's explosive 1995 BBC interview was obtained means it should never be aired again, Prince William said Thursday, adding that it contributed significantly to her paranoia and isolation.
• High Court asked all the big hospitals in Delhi with 100 or more beds to install PSA oxygen plants, saying the bitter experience everyone had due to the acute shortage of medical oxygen, for treating Covid patients, has left a lesson to be learnt.
• India is among the guest countries invited to join virtually at the 2021 G7 Health Ministers' Meeting to be held at Oxford University on June 3 and 4 to bring together the world's leading democracies to agree on life-saving action in critical areas of global health, the UK government announced on Thursday.
• The farmers' protests at the Delhi borders have turned into Covid hotspots and are responsible for the spread of the disease in rural areas, the Haryana government has told the Centre.
• COVID-19 may be the most serious in living memory but it should be seen as a recurring challenge and not as a one-off episode, Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday, noting that India is particularly going through a difficult situation.