62 m. ago Gaza ceasefire plan live: Israel’s government approves deal for hostages’ release as US troops to ‘oversee’ truce

Ceasefire supposed to begin immediately after early Friday’s cabinet approval under deal, says Israeli officialIsraeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner after a government meeting to approve the US-brokered deal to release all hostages and implement a ceasefire in Gaza.The Times of Israel reports that Gaza’s civil defence service has issued a warning to Palestinians not to approach the areas where the Israeli forces are present, particularly towards the border, until the IDF has officially announced their withdrawal and officials confirm this. Continue reading...

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63 m. ago Trump will learn if he has won Nobel Peace Prize for Gaza deal TODAY: Netanyahu posts AI image of President with medal as Donald complains Obama got it for 'doing nothing'

The image, posted on the Israeli prime minister's X account, shows Trump lifting his hands as he sports an oversized medal and is showered in confetti as a cheering crowd waves Israeli flags.

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2 h. ago Hamas insists 'all factions reject' plans for Tony Blair to run Gaza despite agreeing to Trump

Donald Trump had proposed a transitional 'Board of Peace' headed up by himself and former prime minister Sir Tony Blair to oversee an interim governing authority in Gaza.

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2 h. ago Five executions in eight days. Why the death penalty is being used more and more

Executions have been carried out this year in Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas

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2 h. ago Israel approves Trump's Gaza ceasefire and hostage release plan as Hamas says war 'over'

Israeli hostages expected to be released early next week and ceasefire begin on Saturday after Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet ratified the peace agreement

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3 h. ago Nobel Peace Prize winner to be announced today – here's who could beat Donald Trump

The Norwegian Nobel Committee will announce Friday who has won the Nobel Peace Prize, a highly coveted but notoriously unpredictable award. Here's who's in the running

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3 h. ago National Guard set to patrol Memphis but blocked in Illinois for 2 weeks

National Guard troops are expected to begin patrolling in Memphis

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3 h. ago The winner of the coveted but unpredictable Nobel Peace Prize will be announced Friday

The Norwegian Nobel Committee will announce on Friday who has won the Nobel Peace Prize, a highly coveted but notoriously unpredictable award

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4 h. ago Federal judges in 2 states are considering challenges to the government's treatment of Abrego Garcia

Federal judges in two states are considering challenges to the government’s treatment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

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7 h. ago FACT FOCUS: Trump paints a grim portrait of Portland. The story on the ground is much less extreme

President Donald Trump and his administration have described Portland, Oregon, as a city under siege by antifa, labeling it a war zone

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7 h. ago Venezuela asks UN Security Council for emergency session over US military actions in the Caribbean

Venezuela's government has requested an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council

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8 h. ago RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: This deal would never have flown without the force of nature that is Donald J. Trump

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Mr President. The gratitude of the families of the Israeli hostages who will soon be returned home was unconfined.

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8 h. ago JAN MOIR: No matter what your beliefs, what kind of unfeeling ogre vandalises other people's markers of grief?

After all the devastation of the past two years, a Gaza peace deal has been reached and Donald Trump says all that remains is 'getting the final word down in concrete'.

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8 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: 23 children and adolescents brought out of Russian

Rescue was carried out under Zelenskyy’s ‘Bring Kids Back UA’ programme; Trump ‘stepping up pressure’ to end war. What we know on day 1,325Twenty-three Ukrainian children and adolescents have been brought out of Russian-occupied areas of the country to territory under Kyiv’s control, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of staff said on Thursday. Andriy Yermak, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said the rescue was carried out under the president’s “Bring Kids Back UA” programme aimed at bringing to safe areas children deported to Russia or confined to Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine.US President Donald Trump said Thursday that Washington and Nato allies were “stepping up the pressure” to end the war in Ukraine, after his outreach to Russia’s Vladimir Putin failed to achieve a ceasefire. “Yeah, we are stepping up the pressure,” Trump said in an Oval Office during a meeting with Finnish President Alexander Stubb. “We’re stepping it up together. We’re all stepping it up. Nato h...

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9 h. ago Israeli Cabinet approves 'outline' of deal to release hostages held by Hamas

Israel’s Cabinet has approved President Donald Trump’s plan for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of all the remaining hostages held by Hamas, a key step toward ending a ruinous two-year war that has destabilized the Middle East

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9 h. ago Trump runs ads for his ‘Fight, Fight, Fight’ watch collection regularly on Newsmax

‘Hello everyone it’s President Donald J Trump and it’s Trump time,’ the president says in one of the latest ads

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10 h. ago Most states with National Guard troops in DC plan to withdraw this fall

More than half the states contributing National Guard troops to President Trump's federal law enforcement initiative in Washington, D.C. have set target dates for withdrawal later this fall

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10 h. ago MARK ALMOND: For this to last, ordinary Gazans need to see a peace dividend

Donald Trump deserves three cheers for knocking heads together. He pushed his natural ally, Israel, to swallow a ceasefire deal that will see it withdraw from a quarter of the territory it occupies

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10 h. ago Donald Trump speaks out and wards off bad luck before physical exam

U.S. President Donald Trump was asked about his health during a press conference with Finnish President Alexander Stubb and insisted that he's "in great shape"

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11 h. ago The Latest: New York Attorney General Letitia James indicted on fraud charge, AP source says

A grand jury has indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on a fraud charge, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press

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