The Trump administration's blueprint to "secure and govern" Gaza won strong approval at the United Nations, a crucial step that provides international support for US efforts to move the devastated territory toward peace following two years of war. The US resolution that passed the UN Security Council authorises an international stabilisation force to provide security in Gaza, approves a transitional authority to be overseen by President Donald Trump and envisions a possible future path to an independent Palestinian state.

"This will go down as one of the biggest approvals in the History of the United Nations, will lead to further Peace all over the World, and is a moment of true Historic proportion!" Trump posted on social media. The vote endorses Trump's 20-point ceasefire plan and builds on the momentum of the fragile ceasefire he helped broker with allies. It marks a key next step for American efforts to outline Gaza's future after the Israel-Hamas war destroyed much of the territory and killed tens of thousands of people.

India's anti-terrorism agency said it had arrested four more people, including three doctors, in connection with last week's deadly car blast in Delhi, the first such attack in the heavily-guarded capital in more than a decade. The car bomb killed 10 people and wounded 32 outside the historic Red Fort on November 10. The four "prime accused" have been identified by the National Investigation Agency as Dr. Muzammil Shakeel Ganai, Dr. Adeel Ahmed Rather, and Mufti Irfan Ahmad Wagay who come from Indian Kashmir, and Dr. Shaheen Saeed from the northern city of Lucknow.

The NIA said that it had arrested two other people earlier. It named them as Amir Rashid Ali, in whose name it said the car was registered, and Jasir Bilal Wani, who it said provided technical help to suicide bomber Umar Un Nabi, also a doctor. Ganai, Rather, and Wagay were previously in the custody of Jammu and Kashmir police, who arrested them last week saying they were part of a terrorist unit.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recast the vaccine safety section of its website to align with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr's belief that childhood vaccines cause autism, countering decades of science showing them to be safe. The US public health agency's website was changed to say, "The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism' is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism."

It added that health authorities have "ignored" studies supporting the link between the two. Public health experts, doctors and scientists decried the update as the kind of misinformation the CDC has fought for decades as it promoted the use of life-saving childhood vaccines both in the US and abroad. Until Kennedy, a longtime 'anti-vaxxer', took up his current role, the CDC was a key opponent of growing global anti-vaccine sentiment. Some of that can be traced to a now discredited 1998 study that linked the measles vaccine to autism.

Pakistani security forces raided two Pakistani Taliban hideouts in the country's northwest near the Afghan border, triggering intense shootouts that left 23 militants dead, the military said Thursday(Nov. 20). There were no details on any casualties among the military. The raids took place in Kurram, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to a military statement. The operation followed raids earlier this week across northwestern Pakistan that the army said killed 38 militants.

The military identified the killed militants as "Khawarij," a term authorities use for militants they allege are backed by Afghanistan and India, including those linked to the banned Pakistani Taliban, a charge Kabul and New Delhi deny. Also Thursday, a roadside bomb targeting a police vehicle killed two police officers and wounded four in the northwestern Dera Ismail Khan district, according to local police. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.