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U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive to hold a news conference at the White House in Washington on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Feb 5, 2025
Trump's Gaza stunner builds on his expansionist aims
Since Trump's return to the White House a little more than two weeks ago, his "America First" approach seems to have morphed into "America More."
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 5, 2025
Trump says U.S. should control Gaza, sparking rebukes and ridicule
The proposal, at odds with Mideast reality and America’s fraught history in the region, quickly drew sharp opposition from Saudi Arabia.
Palestinians who were emprisoned by Israel are welcomed by family and friends upon their arrival in the Gaza Strip on Saturday.
WORLD
Feb 2, 2025
Netanyahu to begin talks on second phase of Gaza truce
A date for formal talks involving mediators and delegations from Hamas and Israel has not been set, with the 42-day first phase due to end next month.
Palestinians collect food aid packages from a UNRWA warehouse in Deir Al-balah, Gaza, on Jan. 23.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 29, 2025
Israel defies U.N. and vows to cut ties with UNRWA, with U.S.' blessing
UNRWA's offices and staff in Israel play a major role in the provision of health care and education to Palestinians, including those living in Gaza.
Displaced Gazans walk toward Gaza City on Saturday after crossing the Netzarim corridor from the southern Gaza Strip.
WORLD
Jan 28, 2025
Gaza residents stream home to the north after hostage breakthrough
Gaza's Hamas authorities said Monday that more than 300,000 people had crossed into Gaza City and the north edge of the enclave.
Demonstrators raise placards bearing the names of hostages held captive in Gaza since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Palestinian militants, during an anti-government protest calling for action to secure their release, in front of the Israeli Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 27, 2025
Israel’s ceasefire deals face test with Gaza refugee impasse
Israel’s agreements in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip came under strain from deadly violence and a dispute with Hamas over the fate of an Israeli hostage.
An Israeli military vehicle uses a laser, on the day of an Israeli raid in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Tuesday.
WORLD
Jan 22, 2025
Israel launches 'significant' military operation in West Bank
The move into Jenin, where the Israeli army has carried out multiple raids and large-scale incursions in recent years, comes two days after the start of a ceasefire in Gaza.
Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Majed Al-Ansari, looks at a paper as he speaks after Qatar helped mediate a ceasefire agreement in Gaza, in Doha on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 21, 2025
Mediators on standby for obstacles as Gaza ceasefire starts
"These kinds of deals are never easy to maintain," said a spokesperson for Qatar's foreign ministry, which helped broker the ceasefire.
Former Israeli hostage Romi Gonen with her mother Merav at an undisclosed location in Israel on Sunday after a ceasefire and hostage-prisoner exchange deal in the war between Israel and Hamas was implemented.
WORLD
Jan 20, 2025
Israel and Hamas swap hostages and prisoners as ceasefire starts
The six-week truce aims for the gradual release of 33 of the almost 100 Israeli hostages still held in Gaza, and of around 1,000 Palestinians in prison in Israel.
French workers load a replica of the Statue of Liberty, or Lady Liberty, onto a truck outside the Musee des Arts et Metiers in Paris in June 2021, before it departs for Ellis Island in New York to arrive on Independence Day.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 19, 2025
Liberal democracy faces doubts. But collapse? Not likely.
Democracy, it is often heard these days, is in crisis.
Demonstrators in Rabat, Morocco, on Thursday show support for Palestinians following the news of a ceasefire and hostage release deal between Hamas and Israel.
COMMENTARY
Jan 17, 2025
Gaza ceasefire deal is a win for Trump
Donald Trump secured a Gaza ceasefire by pressuring Israel into an agreement, but achieving a lasting peace will depend on resolving deeper regional issues.
Israel delayed meetings expected on Thursday when the cabinet was expected to vote on the ceasefire. But in the early hours of Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said approval was imminent.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 17, 2025
Israel set to approve Gaza ceasefire deal, Netanyahu's office says
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he’s confident implementation of the Gaza deal will begin as scheduled on Sunday once "loose ends” are resolved.
People wave Palestinian flags while celebrating the announcement of a ceasefire in Ramallah in the West Bank on Wednesday.
WORLD
Jan 16, 2025
Israel and Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza
Israel and Hamas have reached a ceasefire agreement that includes a phased withdrawal of Israeli forces, the release of hostages and humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Smoke plumes rise from explosions above destroyed buildings in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jan 14, 2025
Final draft of Gaza truce deal shown to sides after 'breakthrough'
Both sides are "closer than we've ever been" to a deal, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.
U.S. Vice President-elect JD Vance following a meeting with Republican Senators in Washington on Jan. 8
WORLD / Politics
Jan 13, 2025
JD Vance predicts hostage deal before Trump’s return to White House
JD Vance says a hostage deal with Hamas is likely before Trump’s inauguration, crediting tough rhetoric for pushing negotiations forward.
Palestinians at the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, on Thursday.
WORLD
Jan 10, 2025
Gaza death toll 40% higher than recorded, peer-reviewed study estimates
New study used data from Gaza's health ministry, an online survey and social media obituaries to reach a best estimate of 64,260 deaths by June 30 last year.
Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jewish men stand on a hill in the southern city of Sderot as they watch Israeli forces bombard the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday.
WORLD
Jan 6, 2025
Hamas and Israel wrangle over talks as Israeli strikes in Gaza intensify
Israeli airstrikes in Gaza killed 105 Palestinians this weekend, according to medics.
Former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks to members of the press shortly after he was sacked by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who cited a lack of trust, at the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv, Israel, of Nov. 5.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 2, 2025
Israel's ex-defense chief Gallant says he’s leaving parliament
His replacement would be more likely to support the ruling coalition, which has struggled at times to muster the votes it needs in parliament.
Palestinians gather to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Dec. 4.
WORLD
Dec 31, 2024
As Gaza suffers, experts call on hunger monitor to redefine famine
Many food-security experts, aid workers and doctors say famine took hold in Gaza many months ago.
The silhouettes of a military vehicle and a soldier are seen near the Gaza border on Dec. 16.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 26, 2024
Hamas and Israel blame each other for Gaza cease-fire delay
Hamas said Israel laid down further conditions, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the group of going back on understandings already reached.

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