Reuters

The Biden administration has decided to lift a ban on U.S. sales of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia, the State Department said on Friday, reversing a three-year-old policy to pressure the kingdom to wind down the Yemen war.

The State Department was lifting its suspension on certain transfers of air-to-ground munitions to Saudi Arabia, a senior department official confirmed. “We will consider new transfers on a typical case-by-case basis consistent with the Conventional Arms Transfer Policy,” the official said

Sao Paulo plane crash: All 61 on board killed

CGTN

A passenger plane crashed into a gated residential community in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state on Friday, killing all 61 aboard, the airline company Voepass confirmed.

The airline Voepass said that its plane, an ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop, was headed for Sao Paulo’s international airport Guarulhos with 57 passengers and 4 crew members aboard when it crashed in Vinhedo. It provided a flight manifest with passenger names, but not their nationalities. A prior statement had said there were 58 passengers.

JPMorgan Asset gameplans for risk BOJ hikes are done this year

Japan Times

The Bank of Japan will avoid raising interest rates again anytime soon, with further tightening likely dependent on the fate of the U.S. economy, according to the head of global rates at JPMorgan Asset Management.

Gaza reports school strike, 100 feared dead

DW

Authorities in Gaza said an Israeli strike on a Gaza City school being used as a shelter for displaced people killed dozens early on Saturday. The official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported between 90 and 100 dead, and Gaza civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal told the AFP news agency that the death toll was between 90 and 100.

The civil defense agency spoke of a “horrific massacre” and said some bodies caught fire. Bassal said three Israeli rockets hit the facility in Daraj in eastern Gaza City.