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Ukraine to sign security agreements with Japan and US at G7
KYIV - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he would sign a security agreement with Japan as well as one with the United States...
Jun 14, 20241 min read
Analysis-Lebanon's Hezbollah reveals more of its arms in risky escalation
BEIRUT - Hezbollah is drawing on more of its arsenal in its conflict with Israel even as it declares no interest in a full-scale war, an...
Jun 13, 20244 min read
US says Hamas seeks changes to ceasefire plan; Hamas denies proposing new ideas
DOHA/GENEVA/CAIRO -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that Hamas had proposed numerous changes, some unworkable, to...
Jun 13, 20243 min read
Mother of rescued Gaza hostage recounts 'hard and joyful' reunion
TEL AVIV - The mother of one of the four hostages rescued from Gaza by Israeli commandos last week described the surge of emotions that...
Jun 13, 20242 min read
Blinken says some Hamas proposals unworkable but work on ceasefire to continue
DOHA - Hamas proposed "numerous changes" in its response to a ceasefire proposal to end the Gaza war including some unworkable changes,...
Jun 12, 20242 min read
Benny Gantz, man in the middle squeezed out by Israel's Netanyahu
JERUSALEM -In the traumatic aftermath of the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, as hundreds of thousands of Israeli reservists rushed to join...
Jun 12, 20243 min read
Israel says Hamas rejects key elements of US ceasefire plan for Gaza
JERUSALEM/CAIRO -Hamas formally responded on Tuesday to a U.S. ceasefire proposal for the eight-month-old war in the Gaza Strip, and...
Jun 12, 20243 min read
China dismisses Taiwan's concerns after man arrested on river leading to Taipei
BEIJING - China's government said on Wednesday that a Chinese man arrested near Taipei after crossing the Taiwan Strait on a speedboat...
Jun 12, 20242 min read
Hong Kong uses new national security law against exiled activists
HONG KONG - Hong Kong's Security Bureau said on Wednesday it would use powers in a new national security law against six self-exiled...
Jun 12, 20242 min read
Hamas says it creates broad prospects for a ceasefire deal in Gaza
JERUSALEM/CAIRO - Hamas on Wednesday said its "positive" response to a U.S. ceasefire plan for the eight-month-old war in the Gaza...
Jun 12, 20243 min read
Russian rights commissioner calls for swift release of Russians held by Hamas
Russia's Human Rights Commissioner said on Tuesday she had issued a fresh appeal to senior U.N. and other officials to take action to...
Jun 12, 20241 min read
Jordan, Egypt say Israel must abide by UN Security Council resolution on Gaza
CAIRO - Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi urged Israel to abide by the United Nations...
Jun 12, 20241 min read
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