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CNN  —  Israel and Hamas have reached a deal for a four-day pause in fighting and the release of at least 50 women and children held hostage in Gaza, marking a major diplomatic breakthrough nearly seven weeks after the start…

Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly with his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida on Saturday 27 August, 2022. Photo courtesy of Egyptian cabinet Facebook page.  The two premiers discussed various topics to boost economic cooperation between the two countries in a video meeting on Saturday with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on the…

Officials identified the man stabbed and killed in the Downtown Commons area of Sacramento. The person believed to be responsible for the attack has yet to be found. The Sacramento County Coroner's Office identified the man killed as 22-year-old Laronn Derose Willson II, and the Sacramento Police Department also confirmed that as the…

This is a story about a story that nobody else seems to think is a story. When the story is about the Governor-General’s rather odd $18 million pet charity, hot on the heels of the Governor-General’s rather odd silence at the time of Scott Morrison’s rather odd secret…

A passenger wearing a face mask gets off an S-Bahn train in Berlin, capital of Germany, April 1, 2022. (Photo by Stefan Zeitz/Xinhua)In the coming weeks, Germany's Robert Koch Institute expects to see continued high numbers of hospitalizations, both COVID-19 patients requiring intensive care and fatalities from the disease, particularly in the…

Placeholder while article actions loadWe should not read too much into Kansas voters’ surprisingly lopsided rejection last week of an amendment that would have declared that the state’s constitution does not guarantee a right to abortion. After all, this is one result in a single state — fewer than 1 million people voted.But I do think the…

Senate Democrats have reached an accord on changes to their marquee economic legislation, they announced late Thursday, clearing the major hurdle to pushing one of President Joe Biden's leading election-year priorities through the chamber in coming days. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., a centrist who was seen as the pivotal vote, said in a…

Japanese shogi prodigy Sota Fujii received the Prime Minister's Award on Monday for his achievement in becoming the first player ever to hold all eight major titles in the traditional board game. The government commended the 21-year-old player, who secured the last remaining Oza title in October, for inspiring dreams and…

Ukrainian soldiers in a muddy trench in March show the difficult conditions both sides could face as winter arrives. AP Photo/Libkos Russian troops are living in grueling conditions on the front line in Ukraine, the UK MoD said. Soldiers described being "wet from head to toe" for weeks at a time, per the report. They also described eating…

David Dee Delgado/Getty Images Former US President Donald Trump after completing his testimony at his civil fraud trial in New York State Supreme Court on November 06, 2023 in New York City.…