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31 Maj 2025

News in a few minutes: What's happening in the world

Last hospital in northern Gaza province evacuated after Israeli order

News in a few minutes: What's happening in the world

The last hospital providing health services in the northern Gaza province is out of service after the Israeli army ordered its immediate evacuation, the facility's director said.

This comes as efforts continue to secure a ceasefire. Hamas says it is "carefully considering" a US plan, which the White House has said has been "approved" by Israel.

China's latest spacecraft aims to bring back "groundbreaking" samples from asteroid near Mars

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China launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from an asteroid near Mars and yield "new discoveries and expand humanity's knowledge of the cosmos," the country's space agency said.

The Tianwen-2 probe launched early Thursday from southern China aboard a Long March 3-B carrier rocket.

The probe will collect samples from asteroid 2016HO3 and explore main-belt comet 311P, which is even further from Earth than Mars, according to the China National Space Administration.

Macron warns US and Indo-Pacific not to abandon Ukraine at the expense of focusing on China

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French President Emmanuel Macron warned the US and Indo-Pacific countries on Friday evening that they risk a dangerous double standard while focusing on a potential conflict with China, if that conflict comes at the cost of abandoning Ukraine. 

Macron's comments come as the US is considering withdrawing troops from Europe to deploy them to the Indo-Pacific. He warned that abandoning Ukraine would threaten US credibility in preventing potential conflict between China and Taiwan. 

US Supreme Court allows Trump administration to end legal protections for nearly 1 million immigrants

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for the Trump administration to strip temporary legal protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants, bringing the total number of people who could be newly exposed to deportation to nearly 1 million.

The judges overturned a lower court order that upheld conditional humanitarian protections for more than 500,000 migrants from four countries: Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.