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US President Donald Trump hailed a “tremendous day for the Middle East” as he and regional leaders signed a declaration Monday meant to cement a ceasefire in Gaza, hours after Israel and Hamas exchanged hostages and prisoners. Trump made a lightning visit to Israel, where he lauded Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an address to parliament, before flying to Egypt ...

At least five people were killed and dozens injured during violent clashes between Pakistan police and hardline group Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) on Monday, officials reported. The protest, called by TLP a week before US President Donald Trump’s Gaza ceasefire announcement, has a history of turning violent in previous demonstrations. The march, covering nearly 400 kilometers from Lahore to the capital ...

Hamas will begin releasing Israeli hostages held in Gaza on Monday morning, according to a senior official from the group, marking the start of a major prisoner exchange deal ahead of an international summit in Egypt focused on Middle East peace. The release is part of the first phase of a broader agreement in which Hamas will free 20 Israeli ...

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, has dedicated the award to US President Donald Trump and the people of Venezuela. The Nobel Committee announced her as the laureate on Friday, recognizing her “tireless efforts to uphold the democratic rights of the Venezuelan people and her struggle for a just and peaceful transition from ...

A paramilitary drone strike killed at least 30 people at a displacement shelter in the besieged city of El-Fasher in western Sudan on Saturday, a local activist group said. The resistance committee for El-Fasher said the Rapid Support Forces hit the Dar al-Arqam displacement centre on the grounds of a university. Bodies remained trapped in underground shelters, the committee said ...

A ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas for the Gaza Strip came into effect at noon local time, the Israeli military said Friday, adding that troops were withdrawing to agreed-upon deployment lines. The announcement came hours after Israel’s Cabinet approved President Donald Trump’s plan for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the release of the remaining hostages and of Palestinian ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said in a Fox News interview late Wednesday that he believes all hostages held in Gaza — including the bodies of those killed — will be returned on Monday, following a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. “So much is happening to get the hostages freed, and we think they’ll all be coming back on Monday,” ...

At least 15 people were killed late Tuesday when debris from a massive landslide struck a passenger bus in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, local authorities confirmed. The incident occurred near Bilaspur district, a hilly area that has been battered by continuous torrential rains since Monday. The bus, carrying between 20 and 25 passengers, was travelling through the ...

Ukraine carried out a second consecutive night of large-scale drone attacks on Russian territory, with Russia claiming to have shot down 184 drones, mostly over the Kursk and Belgorod regions, the Russian defence ministry said on Tuesday. This follows one of Kyiv’s largest drone offensives on Monday, when Russia reported intercepting 251 drones in a single day. The attacks have ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for their groundbreaking discoveries related to peripheral immune tolerance — a key mechanism that prevents the immune system from attacking the body’s own cells. The announcement was made by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on Monday, ...