Palestinian militant group Hamas released the first set of Israeli hostages on Friday, according to national media. The group, which had been held captive in Gaza since October 7, has already crossed from Gaza into Egypt, the Times of Israel reported. The release of the 13 hostages was reportedly supervised …
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Hamas has released two American captives, a spokesman for the Palestinian militant group said on Friday. The group said that it freed the hostages to prove US President Joe Biden’s “fascist” administration wrong. “In response to Qatari efforts, Al-Qassam Brigades released two American citizens for humanitarian reasons,” Abu Obaida said …
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The Pentagon has released a video, which it said was shot from a US MQ-9 Reaper drone during a close encounter with a Russian Su-27 fighter jet, after which the American aircraft plunged into the Black Sea earlier this week. The 50-second clip provided to the media shows an interceptor …
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Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has made public a video of Ukrainian national Natalya Vovk, identified as the prime suspected in Saturday’s car bombing that killed journalist Darya Dugina in Moscow. The footage published Monday shows Vovk and her teenage daughter entering Russia, inside the building where Dugina lived, and …
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Beijing wants peaceful reunification with Taiwan, but foreign powers meddling in Chinese domestic affairs and encouraging secession on the self-ruled island make it necessary to retain the use of force as an option, a Chinese white paper has said. “We will work with the greatest sincerity and exert our utmost …
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The Swiss government on Thursday reported that 6.3 billion Swiss francs ($6.33 billion) worth of Russian assets have been frozen under the country’s sanctions. The report said the figure indicates a decrease from the roughly 7.5 billion Swiss francs (over $7 billion) in funds the government reported frozen on April …
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The Turkish Defense Ministry has released footage of its military offensive against Kurdish forces in northern Iraq. Ankara launched its latest campaign against the militants, who it considers terrorists, on Sunday evening. NATO-member Turkey labels the assault a “special operation.” The video shows fighter jets, attack helicopters, artillery, and ground forces …
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The Russian Ministry of Defense has released a video showing the crew of the Black Sea Fleet flagship Moskva, which sank on Thursday following a fire on board. The soundless video, which was posted on the ministry’s Telegram channel on Saturday, shows several dozen sailors lined up during a meeting …
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An article with the attention-grabbing headline “Just one wrong move!” appeared in state-run English-language newspaper the Tehran Times on Tuesday. “An intensification of the Israeli military threats against Iran seems to suggest that the Zionist regime has forgotten that Iran is more than capable of hitting them from anywhere,” the …
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Brent crude futures fell 0.4% to $83.43 a barrel by 4:00am GMT. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures lost 0.5%, trading at $83.17. The downward trend came after China’s National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration announced that it had released gasoline and diesel reserves to the market on …
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