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Hamas releases 3 more Israeli hostages for dozens of Palestinian prisoners under Gaza ceasefire

Hamas-led militants have released three gaunt, frail-looking Israeli civilian men held for the past 16 months and Israel is freeing dozens of Palestinian prisoners as part of a fragile agreement that has paused the war in the Gaza Strip More »

 

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Judge blocks Trump from placing thousands of USAID workers on leave and giving them 30-day deadline

A federal judge has dealt President Donald Trump and billionaire ally Elon Musk their first big setback in their dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, ordering a temporary halt to plans to pull thousands of agency staffers off the job More »

 

Iran supreme leader criticizes proposed nuclear talks with US, upending push to negotiation

Iran’s supreme leader says that negotiations with America “are not intelligent, wise or honorable” after President Donald Trump floated nuclear talks with Tehran More »

 

Trump pauses tariffs on millions of low-value packages from China

President Donald Trump has paused the imposition of tariffs on small-value packages arriving from China More »

 

Trump says he wants to negotiate about Ukraine. It's not clear if Putin really does

Nearly three years after President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, his troops are making steady progress on the battlefield More »

 

State Department lays out plans for $7 billion-plus arms sale to Israel as Netanyahu visits DC

The State Department has told Congress that it plans to sell more than $7 billion in weapons to Israel, including thousands of bombs and missiles, just two days after President Donald Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House More »

 

A family fleeing violence in eastern Congo sees little hope as rebels grab more land

Thousands of families have been displaced by violence in eastern Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels last month seized the key city of Goma in a blitz offensive in the mineral-rich region More »

 

Russia claims it's taken another eastern Ukraine town. Kyiv officials make no comment

Russia’s Defense Ministry is claiming that its forces have captured the coal mining town of Toretsk, their latest breakthrough in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, where Ukrainian defenses are creaking More »

 

Federal prisons being used to detain people arrested in Trump’s immigration crackdown

President Donald Trump’s administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown More »

 

Chemical weapons watchdog delegation meets with Syria's new leaders

A delegation from the global chemical weapons watchdog has arrived in Damascus to meet with Syria’s new leaders for the first time since the fall of former President Bashar Assad More »

 

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