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Welcome to SBS News in Easy English. I'm Greg Dyett
United States President Joe Biden has urged Israel's Prime Minister to call a ceasefire in the fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants.
Israel has continued to use air strikes on Gaza and Palestinian militants continue to fire rockets at Israeli cities.
At least 212 Palestinians have been killed in more than a week of fighting and ten people have been killed in Israel.
Carrying knives in New South Wales public schools will be banned from Wednesday.
The state government will change the law which currently allows members of the Sikh community to carry ceremonial daggers to school for religious reasons.
New South Wales Education Minister Sarah Mitchell says the ban is in response to a stabbing at a high school in Sydney's northwest two weeks ago.
"This is not in line with community expectations. We will be working to make that legislative change."
The ban will apply to all students, staff and visitors to NSW public schools.
Members of the state's Sikh community have defended the right of their children to carry ceremonial daggers to school.
They say imposing a ban would compromise their ability to observe their faith.
Business groups and some health officials are calling on the federal government to map out a plan to re-open Australia's international borders.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says opening borders is dependent on the country's vaccination rate, and has suggested that those who are fully vaccinated should be free to move across the country, regardless of outbreaks or local lockdowns.
The United States will share an additional 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines with the world between now and the end of June.
President Joe Biden says the US will send a total of 80 million doses to other countries.
"This will be more vaccines than any country has actually shared to date, five times more than any other country, more than Russia and China, which have donated 15 million doses."
Coronavirus restrictions are easing across the United Kingdom.
People in England, Scotland and Wales can sit indoors in pubs and restaurants and can hug each other again.
Scottish venues where this was already possible can now serve alcohol indoors again.
Across Britain, larger groups of people can meet socially.
Pools around Australia are struggling to recruit qualified swimming teachers and lifeguards to keep people safe in the water.
Royal Life Saving Australia has warned it is threatened by an acute shortage of staff, which is hampering the aquatic industry's attempts to rebuild post-pandemic.
In basketball,
Australia's first female Indigenous referee Jacqui Dover is to make her debut during N-B-L Indigenous Round later this month.
Ms Dover earned her opportunity after working as a referee in the women's basketbal.
I'm Greg Dyett and this is SBS News in Easy English
