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French gangster Mohamed Amra, who was freed after a violent prison van ambush in May, was arrested in Romania on Saturday, the French interior minister said. His escape sparked a nationwide manhunt and political outcry over drug crime. 

Washington has called on United Nations members to support its resolution on the war in Ukraine, despite criticism over its controversial language. Diplomatic sources reveal that the resolution omits references to Ukrainian territory occupied by Russia and focuses instead on urging a swift end to the conflict without addressing Kyiv's […]

Lebanon’s Hezbollah will on Sunday hold a funeral for its former leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in the southern suburbs of Beirut. The public ceremony for Nasrallah, who was killed by an Israeli strike in September, is set to be “highly political” says expert Albert Kostanian, who hosts one of Lebanon’s leading politics broadcasts.

In exchange for the six Israeli hostages, Israel was supposed to release 602 Palestinians who have been held in its prisons, though that portion of the agreement has reportedly been delayed for several hours. For more, we spoke with Palestinian journalist Shrouq Al-Aila in Deir al-Balah, Gaza.

Hamas freed six more Israeli hostages in Gaza on Saturday in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in the seventh hostage-prisoner swap under the first phase of a fragile ceasefire. Their release came after the remains of a body returned by Hamas on Friday was identified as Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas.

A judicial investigation into charges of rape and sexual assault at the Notre-Dame de Bétharram school in southwestern France was opened against a former school employee Friday. French PM François Bayrou, whose children attended the school, has come under increasing scrutiny after a former teacher accused him and his wife of having turned a […]

The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously adopted a resolution calling Rwanda to end its support for the M23 rebel group and withdraw troops from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Ahead of the snap federal elections in Germany this Sunday, the Green Party held a rally in Hamburg. Two-week polling averages show that 13% of voters intend to vote for the historically ecologist party. In recent years, the Greens have taken a more centrist line on economic policies and an interventionist line in foreign affairs. The dominance […]

Saturday's exchange marks the final swap of living hostages under the first phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement. Joining us from Washington, Aaron David Miller, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, explains the three possible options for the continuation of the phases amid the ceasefire deal between Israel and […]

US President Donald Trump is pressuring Ukraine to give US companies preferential access to the war-torn country's mineral deposits, saying the country's leadership "don't have any cards, but they play it tough". Kyiv has been pushing for security guarantees from Washington in return.