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Israel releases more Palestinian prisoners on sixth day of Gaza truce after Hamas frees 16 hostages
By Wafaa Shurafa, Jack Jeffery And Melanie Lidman, The Associated Press on November 29th, 2023
JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel released another group of Palestinian prisoners early Thursday in exchange for 16 hostages freed hours earlier by the Islamic militant group Hamas in Gaza. A bus carrying some of the Palestinian detainees was seen arriving in the West Bank city of Ramallah before dawn. The releases came on the sixth day ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Senator: White House not seeking conditions on military aid to Israel, despite earlier Biden comment
By Seung Min Kim, The Associated Press on November 29th, 2023
WASHINGTON (AP) – National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told lawmakers this week that the White House is not seeking to place conditions on U.S. military assistance to Israel, days after President Joe Biden signaled openness to the notion that was being pushed by some Democrats as the civilian death toll in Gaza from Israel’s war ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Israeli military says 10 Israelis, four Thai nationals, have been released by Hamas
By Wafaa Shurafa, Jack Jeffery And Melanie Lidman, The Associated Press on November 29th, 2023
JERUSALEM (AP) – The Israeli military said 10 Israelis and four Thai nationals were released late Wednesday from captivity in the Gaza Strip. The hostages crossed into Egypt and were to be transferred to Israel. It was the sixth such release under a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. Israel is to release 30 Palestinian prisoners ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Last planned release of hostages in Gaza begins, as mediators aim to extend Israel-Hamas truce
By Wafaa Shurafa, Jack Jeffery And Melanie Lidman, The Associated Press on November 29th, 2023
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) – International mediators on Wednesday worked to extend the truce in Gaza, encouraging Hamas militants to keep freeing hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners and further relief from Israel’s air and ground offensive. The cease-fire will otherwise end within a day. Two Russian-Israeli women freed by Hamas ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!As last planned hostage releases begin, mediators aim to extend Israel-Hamas truce in Gaza
By Wafaa Shurafa, Jack Jeffery And Melanie Lidman, The Associated Press on November 29th, 2023
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) – International mediators on Wednesday worked to extend the truce in Gaza, encouraging Hamas militants to keep freeing hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners and further relief from Israel’s air and ground offensive. The cease-fire will otherwise end within a day. Hamas freed two Russian-Israeli women, who ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Israel says 2 hostages released by Hamas in Gaza are now in Egypt, 10 others expected to be freed
By Wafaa Shurafa, Jack Jeffery And Melanie Lidman, The Associated Press on November 29th, 2023
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) – The Israeli military says Hamas has begun releasing 12 hostages from captivity in the Gaza Strip. The army said the first two hostages were transferred to Egypt late Wednesday. Ten others were expected to soon be freed. It was the sixth release of Israeli hostages under a cease-fire between ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Mediators aim to extend Israel-Hamas truce in Gaza as last planned hostage releases begin
By Wafaa Shurafa, Jack Jeffery And Melanie Lidman, The Associated Press on November 29th, 2023
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) – International mediators on Wednesday worked to extend the truce in Gaza, encouraging Hamas militants to keep freeing hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners and further relief from Israel’s air and ground offensive. The cease-fire will otherwise end within a day. Ahead of the swap of 10 ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!US authorities charge man from India in plot to kill a Sikh separatist leader in New York City
By Ashok Sharma, The Associated Press on November 29th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – U.S. authorities announced murder-for-hire charges Wednesday against a man from India who they say plotted to pay an assassin $100,000 to kill a prominent Sikh separatist leader living in New York City after the man advocated for the establishment of a sovereign state for Sikhs. U.S. Attorney Damian Williams announced the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Court clears France’s justice minister of conflict of interest
By The Associated Press on November 29th, 2023
PARIS (AP) – A special court has cleared France’s justice minister of conflict of interest, ruling he was not guilty of having used his office to settle personal scores. Once a high-profile lawyer, Eric Dupond-Moretti was accused of abusing his position to order probes targeting magistrates who investigated him, his friends and his former clients. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Wolverines threatened with extinction as climate change melts their snowy mountain refuges, US says
By Matthew Brown, The Associated Press on November 29th, 2023
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – The North American wolverine will receive long-delayed federal protections under a Biden administration proposal released Wednesday in response to scientists warning that climate change will likely melt away the rare species’ snowy mountain refuges. Across most of the U.S., wolverines were wiped out by the early 1900s from unregulated trapping and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!At least 40 civilians killed by al-Qaida-linked rebels in a Burkina Faso town, UN rights office says
By Chinedu Asadu, The Associated Press on November 29th, 2023
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) – At least 40 civilians were killed last weekend by al-Qaida-linked rebels trying to take control of a besieged town in Burkina Faso’s hard-hit northern region, the United Nations’ rights office said, calling the attack a war crime. In one of the largest clashes in recent years in the West African nation ... Read More »
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