CAIRO -- Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron called for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip during a phone conversation on Saturday, emphasizing the need to restore calm and provide humanitarian aid, according to a statement from the Egyptian presidency.

The leaders underscored that a two-state solution is essential for achieving lasting peace in the region. They also discussed Egypt's efforts to broker a Gaza ceasefire and reviewed bilateral relations ahead of Macron's scheduled visit to Egypt on Sunday. (Egypt-France-Gaza)

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JAKARTA -- The Indonesian central bank, Bank Indonesia (BI), vowed to maintain the stability of the rupiah by optimizing its triple intervention strategy, following the imposition of U.S. "reciprocal tariffs" on Indonesian exports, an official said on Saturday.

Executive Director of the BI's Communication Department Ramdan Denny Prakoso explained that the triple intervention involves intervening in the foreign exchange spot market, the Domestic Non-Deliverable Forward market, and the secondary market for government securities. (Indonesia-Rupiah-U.S. Tariff)

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SANAA -- At least one person was killed and four others wounded when airstrikes by U.S. forces hit a solar energy store and a house in Yemen's northern city of Saada late on Saturday, medics reported.

Medics described the casualty toll as preliminary, adding that civil defense teams were working to extinguish fires and search for victims at the targeted sites in the Hafsin area of western Saada city, the capital of the namesake Saada province. (Yemen-U.S.-Airstrikes)

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TRIPOLI -- Libyan security forces aligned with the country's eastern government arrested some 570 undocumented migrants of various nationalities and several suspected human traffickers near the border town of Imsa'ed on Saturday, eastern authorities said.

The arrests near Imsa'ed, close to Libya's border with Egypt, followed investigations that uncovered several hideouts used by the migrants, the eastern security directorate said in a statement. (Libya-Illegal Migrants-Arrest) Enditem

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