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Oslo (AFP) – “The Oslo Accord is gone” says Jan Egeland, a former peace negotiator who helped draw up the 1993 agreements between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Speaking as a four-day truce between Israel and Hamas approaches its end, a window in which 50 hostages were exchanged for Palestinian prisoners, Egeland calls for “an end to this dirty idea that you can and should exchange hostages for humanitarian access to children.”

Wellington (AFP) – Former airline executive Christopher Luxon is sworn in as New Zealand’s next prime minister. He heads a three-way coalition, in which his two deputy prime ministers, David Seymour and Winston Peters, will each hold the position for half of the government’s three-year term. The two deputies have in the past traded barbs and been involved in high-profile social media spats, but Luxon has downplayed the friction. National’s election win in October brought the curtain down on six years of Jacinda Ardern’s Labour party.

London (AFP) – Migration to the UK needs to “come down to more sustainable levels” says Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, after figures from the Office for National Statistics showed net migration to the UK hit a record high in 2022. The figures have added to the pressure on Sunak, whose Conservative party has vowed to reduce new arrivals.

Petah Tikva (Israel) (AFP) – Eleven hostages freed by Hamas, including nine children, “are undergoing a medical and emotional evaluation,” says Efrat Bron-Harlev, CEO of the Scheider Children’s Medical Center in Israel. Their “physical condition… is now stable” she adds. The hostages were released during a four-day truce agreed by Hamas and Israel, which has also seen Palestinian prisoners freed. The pause in fighting is the first since the October 7 attack in which Hamas gunmen killed 1,200 people in Israel and took 240 hostages. Israel’s response, a sustained air and ground campaign in the Gaza Strip, has killed nearly 15,000 people, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.

Dehradun (India) (AFP) – India’s military brought in specialised equipment Sunday as efforts to free 41 trapped workers in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand entered a third week, with digging ongoing in three directions after repeated setbacks to the operation.

Ramat Gan (Israel) (AFP) – Itai Pessach, a doctor at Israel’s Sheba Medical Centre, says the freed hostages received on the morning of Sunday 26 November do not need emergency medical treatment after they were released from captivity in Gaza late Saturday. Hamas’s October 7 attack sparked an air and ground offensive by Israel, which has vowed to destroy the Palestinian militants. In Gaza, nearly 15,000 people have been killed in the war, officials in the Hamas-run territory said. About 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed in Israel during the October 7 attack and around 240 taken hostage, according to Israeli officials. SOUNDBITE

London (AFP) – British music retailer HMV returns to the iconic site of its former flagship store in central London, with UK 1980s band Madness present for the occasion. “It was crazy but it was absolutely worth the wait,” says Terry Hammond, leaving with his copy signed by Madness.

Teknaf (Bangladesh) (AFP) – Bangladesh police officers stop 58 Rohingya refugees from attempting a sea crossing to Indonesia, after hundreds attempted the journey the previous week. Thousands of members of the predominantly Muslim minority risk their lives each year by making the sea journey from refugee camps in Bangladesh, often in flimsy boats, to try to reach Malaysia or Indonesia. Bangladesh is home to one million Rohingya refugees, most of whom fled a violent crackdown by the Myanmar military in 2017 that is now the subject of a United Nations genocide investigation.

Freetown (AFP) – Alleged escaped prisoners from Sierra Leone’s Pademba Road prison – according to a man who told AFP he was a prisoner himself – walk in the streets of the Brookfields neighbourhood of Freetown. AFP could not confirm from the authorities that the prison gates had been opened. Armed clashes have erupted in Sierra Leon’s capital in what the government says was an attack on a military armoury, as it imposed an immediate national curfew.

Samburu (Kenya) (AFP) – An elephant in northern Kenya, who goes by Alto, has given birth to a set of twins, a rare event for the planet’s largest land mammals. Twins make up only about one percent of elephant births. The twins, both female, were born in the Samburu National Reserve.

Freetown (AFP) – A military armoury in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown came under attack on November 26, announces the government, as it imposes an immediate national curfew. The government says those attempting to break into the armoury have been repelled. Witnesses told AFP they heard gunshots and explosions in the city’s Wilberforce district. ANIMATED MAP

Sderot (Israel) (AFP) – Smoke from a fire near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip is seen from the Israeli town of Sderot. The cause of the fire and its exact location are not clear. It comes on the third day of a four-day truce between Israel and Hamas. Hamas’s October 7 attack sparked an air and ground offensive by Israel, which has vowed to destroy the Palestinian militants. In Gaza, nearly 15,000 people have been killed in the war, officials in the Hamas-run territory said. About 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed in Israel during the October 7 attack and around 240 taken hostage, according to Israeli officials.