Israel&s military said yesterday it will fire air force reservists who signed an open letter that condemns the war in Gaza for only serving political interests instead of bringing the hostages home.

Germany is &exhausted& by mass migration and may need to use emergency EU powers to turn away asylum-seekers, an ally of Friedrich Merz has said.

European countries vowed yesterday to sends billions of euros in further funding to help Ukraine keep fighting Russia&s invasion, as a US envoy pursued peace efforts in a trip to meet with Russian president Vladimir Putin amid growing questions about the Kremlin&s willingness to stop the more than three-year war.

The president of the Red Cross described the humanitarian situation in Gaza yesterday as &hell on earth& and warned that its field hospital will run out of supplies within two weeks.