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Fighting between Hamas and Israel has resumed in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces said Friday. The resumption, the IDF said, follows Hamas’ violation of a temporary truce and the militant group’s launching of a rocket attack on Israel. Even as the sounds and smells of war return to Gaza, international mediators are continuing to negotiate […]

TOKYO — Japan’s coast guard has found a person and debris in the ocean where a U.S. military Osprey aircraft carrying eight people crashed Wednesday off southern Japan, officials said. The cause of the crash and the status of the person and the others on the aircraft were not immediately known, coast guard spokesperson Kazuo Ogawa […]

JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON — Hamas said its armed wing has handed over 13 Israeli hostages and four foreign nationals to the International Red Cross in Gaza Saturday night. The group is traveling to Egypt’s shared border with the enclave, a Qatari source told Reuters. Qatar Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed Al Ansari echoed this in an earlier social media […]

Ukraine said Wednesday Russia launched 14 drones and a cruise missile as part of its latest attacks. The Ukrainian air force said its air defenses downed all of the drones, which were directed at parts of central, southeastern and western Ukraine. There were no immediate reports of major damage or casualties. The Ukrainian military also […]

GAZA/TEL AVIV, ISRAEL — Some hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip following the militant group’s attack last month on Israel could be released as early as Thursday, after an agreement announced by Qatar that includes Israeli forces pausing their attacks on Gaza for four days. Qatar said Hamas would release 50 women and children, […]

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS Two Palestinians were killed overnight in Israeli raids on the occupied West Bank. 31 babies have been evacuated from Shifa Hospital Israeli airstrikes kill scores at a school in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza. President Biden said Saturday the Palestinian Authority should ultimately govern the Gaza Strip and the West Bank […]

More than 2,400 Ukrainian children have been taken to Belarus since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, according to new research published Thursday by Yale University. The findings by the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health are the most extensive yet about Belarus’ alleged role in Russia’s forced relocation of Ukrainian children. The […]

ABUJA, NIGERIA — Nigerian experts are hopeful that deals reached last week with Saudi Arabia will boost local oil production and help grow the economy. The deals included a pledge by Saudi officials to fix Nigeria’s four broken oil refineries, which haven’t worked in years, forcing Africa’s second-largest oil producer to import all of its fuel. […]

Israeli soldiers are continuing operations in and around Gaza’s Shifa Hospital, which they raided early Wednesday in pursuit of Hamas militants just minutes after warning health ministry officials of the impending operation. The Israel Defense Forces described its operation as “precise and targeted.” Israel says Hamas used the hospital as a command center, and patients […]

The Ukraine’s president is saying Russia was experiencing more losses there than it did in nearby Bakhmut, another war hotspot. In other news, Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely to announce his intention to run in the 2024 presidential election campaign during his annual press conference and public phone-in, the U.K.’s Ministry of Defence said […]