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Gaza militants release Israeli hostages, some dazed others elated

Gaza militants release Israeli hostages, some dazed others elated

Hamas paraded five Israeli hostages, some looking dazed and others elated, before cheering crowds at two meticulously recorded ceremonies in the Gaza...

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Hamas frees dazed hostages in staged Gaza ceremony

Hamas frees dazed hostages in staged Gaza ceremony

Hamas paraded five Israeli hostages, some looking dazed and others elated, before cheering crowds at two meticulously recorded ceremonies in the Gaza...

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Netanyahu orders army to step up West Bank offensive after bus bombs

Netanyahu orders army to step up West Bank offensive after bus bombs

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the army to step up its operations in the occupied West Bank on Friday as he paid a rare visit to...

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Argentina to observe two days national mourning for Bibas brothers

Argentina to observe two days national mourning for Bibas brothers

Argentina announced two days of national mourning on Thursday after the bodies of two Israeli Argentine children who had been taken hostage by Hamas...

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Daughter of British IS victim reads last texts to him at France trial

Daughter of British IS victim reads last texts to him at France trial

The daughter of murdered British aid worker this week at the Paris trial of two of his presumed Islamic State group jailers recounted her anguish...

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Hamas hands over dead Israeli hostages in black coffins

Hamas hands over dead Israeli hostages in black coffins

Hundreds watched on Thursday as four black coffins, which Hamas said held the remains of Israel's Bibas family and an elderly hostage, were carried...

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Seven civilians killed in Syria UXO blast: monitor

Seven civilians killed in Syria UXO blast: monitor

Eight civilians including three children were killed on Thursday when unexploded munitions ignited at a house in northwestern Syria, a war monitor and...

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Egypt unveils first ancient royal tomb since Tutankhamun

Egypt unveils first ancient royal tomb since Tutankhamun

Egypt's antiquities authority says it has found the ancient tomb of King Thutmose II, the first royal burial to be located since the famed discovery...

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Sabalenka thrashed in Dubai as Paolini's title defence ends

Sabalenka thrashed in Dubai as Paolini's title defence ends

World number one Aryna Sabalenka slumped to a 6-3, 6-2 loss against Denmark's Clara Tauson in the last 16 of the Dubai Championships on Wednesday, as...

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Syrian Jews say held first group prayer in decades in Damascus synagogue

Syrian Jews say held first group prayer in decades in Damascus synagogue

Syria's tiny Jewish community said they held their first group prayer in decades Wednesday, in a synagogue in Damascus's Old City, expressing joy at...

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Tunisia court orders release of top rights activist

Tunisia court orders release of top rights activist

Prominent Tunisian human rights activist Sihem Bensedrine was released from jail on Wednesday after an appeals court ruling, AFP journalists said,...

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Egypt, Spain reject US plan to displace Gazans

Egypt, Spain reject US plan to displace Gazans

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Wednesday rejected a controversial proposal by US President Donald...

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Iran's Khamenei: US plan to displace Gazans 'will go nowhere'

Iran's Khamenei: US plan to displace Gazans 'will go nowhere'

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday dismissed a proposal by the United States to displace Palestinians from the war-devastated...

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Israel withdraws but keeps five positions in south Lebanon

Israel withdraws but keeps five positions in south Lebanon

Lebanese leaders said they were in contact with the United States and France to press Israel to fully withdraw, branding its continued presence in...

19.02.2025 2

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Israel pulls out of Lebanon villages, but holds five positions

Israel pulls out of Lebanon villages, but holds five positions

Lebanese leaders said they were in contact with the United States and France to press Israel to fully withdraw, branding its continued presence in...

19.02.2025 3

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Deadline for Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon expires

Deadline for Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon expires

Lebanese leaders said they were in contact with the United States and France to press Israel to fully withdraw, branding its continued presence in...

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Rubio discusses Gaza deal with Saudi crown prince: US

Rubio discusses Gaza deal with Saudi crown prince: US

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday, during talks with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, that any deal on the future of...

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Khamenei warns of attempts to create 'discord' in Iran

Khamenei warns of attempts to create 'discord' in Iran

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Monday against what he called "soft war" tactics employed by enemies in a bid to sow discord...

18.02.2025 3

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Starmer to meet Trump 'next week': UK govt

Starmer to meet Trump 'next week': UK govt

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer will meet US President Donald Trump in Washington next week to discuss a "wide range of issues", a British government...

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Families of Israeli hostages in Gaza mark 500 days of captivity

Families of Israeli hostages in Gaza mark 500 days of captivity

Holding pictures of their loved ones, families of Israeli hostages held in Gaza marked 500 days of captivity on Monday, urging authorities to secure...

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Top Russia, US officials to meet in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday

Top Russia, US officials to meet in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday

Top US and Russian diplomats will meet in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for talks on resetting the countries' fractured relations and making a tentative...

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Hezbollah chief says Lebanon must ensure Israeli withdrawal

Hezbollah's chief said Sunday it was the government's responsibility to ensure the Israeli army withdraws from Lebanon by a looming ceasefire...

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Rubio arrives in Israel on first Middle East tour

Rubio arrives in Israel on first Middle East tour

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Israel late Saturday on the first leg of a Middle East tour, an AFP journalist reported. Rubio landed at...

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One killed in Lebanon as Israel-Hezbollah truce deadline looms

One killed in Lebanon as Israel-Hezbollah truce deadline looms

Hezbollah's chief said Sunday it was the government's responsibility to ensure the Israeli army withdraws from Lebanon by a looming ceasefire...

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Freed Israeli hostage finally learns name of youngest daughter

Freed Israeli hostage finally learns name of youngest daughter

Through tears and tight embraces, freed Israeli-American hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen on Saturday finally learnt the name of his youngest daughter, born...

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Thousands of pro-Palestinians march in UK against Trump's Gaza plan

Thousands of pro-Palestinians march in UK against Trump's Gaza plan

Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched through central London to the United States embassy on Saturday to protest against President Donald...

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Anisimova sweeps past Ostapenko to claim Doha title

Anisimova sweeps past Ostapenko to claim Doha title

Amanda Anisimova clinched the first WTA 1000 title of her career with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Jelena Ostapenko in a rain-interrupted Qatar Open final...

16.02.2025 4

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British couple detained in Iran named

British couple detained in Iran named

The UK government on Saturday named two Britons detained in Iran as Craig and Lindsay Foreman, with their family saying they are determined to ensure...

16.02.2025 3

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Freed Palestinian inmates set prison garb ablaze on return to Gaza

Freed Palestinian inmates set prison garb ablaze on return to Gaza

As Palestinian inmates released by Israel on Saturday stepped off the buses that took them to the Gaza Strip, some flashed a victory sign and swiftly...

16.02.2025 4

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Lebanon says 25 arrested after attack on UN peacekeepers

Lebanon says 25 arrested after attack on UN peacekeepers

Lebanese authorities said Saturday that more than 25 people have been arrested following an attack on a United Nations convoy that wounded two...

16.02.2025 3

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Bus carrying freed Palestinian prisoners arrives in Ramallah

Bus carrying freed Palestinian prisoners arrives in Ramallah

A bus carrying a group of Palestinian prisoners released Saturday by Israel under the Gaza ceasefire deal arrived to a cheering crowd in the occupied...

16.02.2025 2

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Lebanon president vows punishment for attackers of UN peacekeeper

Lebanon president vows punishment for attackers of UN peacekeeper

Lebanese authorities said Saturday that more than 25 people have been arrested following an attack on a United Nations convoy that wounded two...

16.02.2025 4

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Leverkusen's Boniface 'happy' despite failed Saudi move

Leverkusen's Boniface 'happy' despite failed Saudi move

Bayer Leverkusen striker Victor Boniface is "happy" and "focused" even though a potential big-money January move to Saudi Arabia fell through last...

15.02.2025 3

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Pique summoned in probe over Spanish Super Cup move to Saudi

Pique summoned in probe over Spanish Super Cup move to Saudi

Barcelona and Spain legend Gerard Pique will appear in court on March 14 in a corruption investigation into the Spanish Super Cup's move to Saudi...

15.02.2025 4

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Turkey fines Adidas $15,000 for pigskin shoes

Turkey fines Adidas $15,000 for pigskin shoes

Turkey has hit German sporting equipment giant Adidas with a fine of more than $15,000 for failing to inform customers that one of its flagship...

14.02.2025 3

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US aircraft carrier collides with merchant ship in Mediterranean

US aircraft carrier collides with merchant ship in Mediterranean

The USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier collided with a merchant vessel in the Mediterranean Sea, the US Navy said Thursday. The warship's collision...

14.02.2025 4

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Tens of thousands of Jordanians welcome king home after Trump meeting

Tens of thousands of Jordanians welcome king home after Trump meeting

Tens of thousands of Jordanians gathered at Amman's Marka airport on Thursday to express support for King Abdullah II's position on Gaza on his return...

14.02.2025 4

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PSG president Al-Khelaifi charged in French corporate abuse of power probe: source

PSG president Al-Khelaifi charged in French corporate abuse of power probe: source

French judicial authorities have charged the president of Paris Saint-Germain football club, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, with complicity in abuse of power...

14.02.2025 3

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UN envoy warns Syria against retribution campaign

UN envoy warns Syria against retribution campaign

The United Nations envoy for Syria on Wednesday called on its new authorities to prevent a "cycle of retribution and revenge" after the overthrow of...

14.02.2025 3

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Wife of Colombian-Israeli hostage receives proof of life

Wife of Colombian-Israeli hostage receives proof of life

The wife of Elkana Bohbot, a Colombian-Israeli man being held hostage by Hamas, said Wednesday she had received proof he was alive and denounced the...

14.02.2025 5

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Indonesia's Prabowo, Turkey's Erdogan agree to bolster ties

Indonesia's Prabowo, Turkey's Erdogan agree to bolster ties

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed a series of agreements Wednesday to boost trade and defence ties...

13.02.2025 4

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Indonesia's Prabowo, Turkey's Erdogan agree to bolster ties

Indonesia's Prabowo, Turkey's Erdogan agree to bolster ties

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan held talks Wednesday, signing a series of agreements to boost trade and...

13.02.2025 3

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Swedish woman jailed for keeping Yazidi slaves in Syria

Swedish woman jailed for keeping Yazidi slaves in Syria

A Swedish court on Tuesday sentenced a 52-year-old woman to 12 years in prison on genocide charges, in the country's first court case over crimes by...

12.02.2025 6

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Syrians back to famed Palmyra ruins scarred by IS

Syrians back to famed Palmyra ruins scarred by IS

Syrians are once again picnicking and smoking shisha amid the ruins of ancient Palmyra, once desecrated by jihadists but still awe-inspiring, and open...

12.02.2025 6

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US, Egyptian security personnel inspect traffic on key Gaza route

US, Egyptian security personnel inspect traffic on key Gaza route

At the key intersection of Gaza's Netzarim Corridor and the Salaheddin Road, US and Egyptian security personnel, armed and wearing military fatigues,...

12.02.2025 7

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Iranian schools and offices shut as cold snap bites

Iranian schools and offices shut as cold snap bites

Authorities in Iran ordered schools and offices in at least 10 provinces to close on Sunday to conserve energy amid a severe cold snap and heavy...

10.02.2025 2

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Thai hostage freed from Gaza says feels 'reborn' after return home

Thai hostage freed from Gaza says feels 'reborn' after return home

A Thai farm worker held hostage in Gaza for more than a year said he felt "reborn" as he and four compatriots arrived home on Sunday to tears of joy...

10.02.2025 5

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PlayStation Network back online after 24-hour outage

PlayStation Network back online after 24-hour outage

Sony PlayStation's online services came back online on Saturday, the Japanese group said, after a 24-hour outage frustrated gamers around the world. ...

10.02.2025 3

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Thousands rally in Paris against Iran's leaders

Thousands rally in Paris against Iran's leaders

Several thousand Iranians came from across Europe to rally in Paris on Saturday, calling on world leaders to put greater pressure on the Islamic...

10.02.2025 5

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Prisoners released in Gaza return to territory transformed by war

Prisoners released in Gaza return to territory transformed by war

More than 100 Palestinians freed into Gaza on Saturday returned to the territory to find it rendered unrecognisable by 15 months of war, while for...

09.02.2025 1

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