February 20, 2024: 1. The United States has proposed a rival draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a temporary ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war and opposing a major ground offensive by its ally Israel in Rafah, according to the text seen by Reuters. 2. The first human patient implanted with a brain-chip from Neuralink appears to have fully recovered and is able to control a computer mouse using their thoughts, the startup's founder Elon Musk said late on Monday. 3. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange began what could be his last chance to stop his extradition from Britain to the United States on Tuesday, with his lawyer saying his case was politically motivated and a concern to journalists across the world. 4. A Haitian judge in charge of the investigation into the 2021 assassination of the Caribbean nation's last president has charged some fifty people, including his widow and a former prime minister, according to a document leaked to local media. 5. The trees are splintered, the houses wrecked, the surviving civilians live in basements, NATO ammunition has been abandoned - this is the picture shown by footage released by Russia from the ruins of the Ukrainian town of Avdiivka. #israel #israelhamaswar #israelhamas #gaza #rafah #unitednations #usa #ceasefire #palestinian #neuralink #elonmusk #julianassange #wikileaks #haiti #caribbean #nato #ukraine #russia #morningnews #headlines #news #reuters #Newsfeed 👉 Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/reuterssubscribe 00:00 US proposes rival temporary ceasefire draft to UN 00:15 Elon Musk's Neuralink 00:28 Julian Assange 00:39 Judge in Haiti charges ex- prime minister's widow 00:52 Ukraine war Keep up with the latest news from around the world: https://www.reuters.com/ Follow Reuters on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Reuters Follow Reuters on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Reuters Follow Reuters on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reuters/?hl=en