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Middle East latest: Deal reached to release Israeli hostage and allow Palestinians into north Gaza
January 26, 2025 - 3:12 PM

Mediator Qatar announced early Monday that an agreement has been reached to release an Israeli civilian hostage and allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza, easing the first major crisis of the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, turn to faith amid deportation fears
January 26, 2025 - 3:09 PM

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — At the end of his Sunday service, the pastor of the First Haitian Evangelical Church of Springfield, Ohio, asked ushers and musicians to form a circle around him as he knelt in prayer, flanked by the flags of Haiti and the United States.
Qatar says a deal is reached to release an Israeli hostage and allow Palestinians into northern Gaza
January 26, 2025 - 3:08 PM

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Qatar announced early Monday that an agreement has been reached to release an Israeli civilian hostage and allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza, easing the first major crisis of the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
AP News in Brief at 6:04 p.m. EST
January 26, 2025 - 3:05 PM

Qatar says agreement reached to release Israeli hostage, allow Palestinians to return to north Gaza
Rwanda-backed rebels enter outskirts of strategic city in what Congo calls 'declaration of war'
January 26, 2025 - 2:59 PM

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels entered the outskirts of eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, on Sunday, causing what the United Nations called “mass panic” among its 2 million people and leading Congo’s government to call it a “declaration of war.”
Sacai brings wild nostalgia to Paris Fashion Week
January 26, 2025 - 2:46 PM

PARIS (AP) — Sacai, Japan’s biggest fashion powerhouse, brought the wild side to Paris Fashion Week with Sunday's collection that reimagined childhood nostalgia through a lens of cutting-edge design.
Protesters in over a 100 cities in Greece and abroad demand justice for 2023 rail crash victims
January 26, 2025 - 2:32 PM

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Tens of thousands of Greeks took to the streets in 110 cities Sunday, including 13 locations abroad, to demand justice for the 57 victims of the country’s deadliest rail disaster in 2023.
White House says Israel and Lebanon have extended deadline for troop withdrawal to Feb. 18
January 26, 2025 - 2:30 PM

MAYS AL-JABAL, Lebanon (AP) — The White House said Sunday that Israel and Lebanon have agreed to extend the deadline for Israeli troops to depart southern Lebanon until Feb. 18, after Israel requested more time to withdraw beyond the 60-day deadline stipulated in a ceasefire agreement that halted the Israel-Hezbollah war in late November.
Sweden seizes vessel suspected of 'sabotage' after undersea data cable rupture in Baltic Sea
January 26, 2025 - 2:26 PM

RIGA, Latvia (AP) — Swedish prosecutors announced Sunday night that they have opened a preliminary investigation into suspected aggravated “sabotage” and ordered the detention of a vessel in the Baltic Sea suspected of damaging an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland earlier that day.
Trump’s Palestinian refugee idea falls flat with Jordan and confounds a Senate ally
January 26, 2025 - 1:44 PM

DORAL, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s push to have Egypt and Jordan take in large numbers of Palestinian refugees from besieged Gaza fell flat with those countries' governments and left a key congressional ally in Washington perplexed on Sunday.
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Middle East latest: Deal reached to release Israeli hostage and allow Palestinians into north Gaza

Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, turn to faith amid deportation fears

Qatar says a deal is reached to release an Israeli hostage and allow Palestinians into northern Gaza

AP News in Brief at 6:04 p.m. EST

Rwanda-backed rebels enter outskirts of strategic city in what Congo calls 'declaration of war'

Sacai brings wild nostalgia to Paris Fashion Week

Protesters in over a 100 cities in Greece and abroad demand justice for 2023 rail crash victims

White House says Israel and Lebanon have extended deadline for troop withdrawal to Feb. 18

Sweden seizes vessel suspected of 'sabotage' after undersea data cable rupture in Baltic Sea

Trump’s Palestinian refugee idea falls flat with Jordan and confounds a Senate ally

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