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British foreign minister James Cleverly has left Japan to travel to Saudi Arabia after the G7 Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Tokyo, the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office said in a statement on Thursday.
Cleverly will meet with foreign ministers from the Middle East, who are gathering in Saudi Arabia ahead of a League of Arab States emergency meeting about Gaza on Saturday.
AP: Officials from Western and Arab nations, the United Nations and nongovernmental organizations are gathering today in Paris for a conference on how to provide aid to civilians in the Gaza Strip during Israel’s war with Hamas, including proposals for a humanitarian maritime corridor and floating field hospitals.