Gaza ceasefire setbacks, America’s most downloaded news app and Kenya’s ‘holy’ mission

An Israeli strike on a Gaza school and Hamas leader’s bottom line deliver setbacks to president Joe Biden’s ceasefire proposal. The most downloaded US news app has Chinese roots and ‘writes fiction’ using AI. And the unlikely circle of advisers Kenya’s William Ruto turned to for guidance on his country’s upcoming mission to Haiti. Plus we take you to a beach in Normandy, France as veterans and world leaders gather to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings ushering in the beginning of the end of World War Two.

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