(Al Jazeera Media Network) Hamas released three more Israeli captives in the Gaza Strip in the sixth such exchange following days of tense negotiations that threatened to undo the precarious ceasefire.
In return, Israel began returning 369 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails on Saturday, most without any charges or convictions. It is the largest number of Palestinians to be freed since the beginning of the truce.
Footage showed a busload of Palestinian prisoners from Ofer Prison arriving in Ramallah...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) As United States President Donald Trump barrels forward with tariff threats against key trading partners Canada and Mexico, a renegotiation of the three countries’ trade agreement could be in the offing.
In his first term as president, Trump pushed to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement with the current United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA.
Under Trump’s leadership, the US added a clause, Article 34.7, which requires a joint review of the...
(BBC News) Pope Francis will be admitted to hospital in Rome to undergo treatment and tests for bronchitis, the Vatican has said.
The 88-year-old will arrive at the Gemelli hospital after his morning audiences on Friday, a short statement said.
The Pope has had bronchitis symptoms for several days and has delegated officials to read his prepared speeches at recent events.
"This morning, after his audiences, Pope Francis will be admitted to the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic for...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) As the mother of an 18-month-old daughter, Laila Lubis is busy experiencing the challenges and joys of new motherhood.
Though her daughter only recently uttered her first words, Lubis is already thinking about how the internet and social media could shape her development long into the future.
“I will never give a mobile phone to my child,” Lubis, who works as a humanitarian worker in Mandailing Natal, North Sumatra, told Al Jazeera.
“I will not allow...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) US President Donald Trump says Russia’s Vladimir Putin has agreed in a phone call to begin negotiations to bring the war in Ukraine to a “successful conclusion”.
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth tells NATO leaders in Brussels that ending the war is a top priority for Trump but adds that a return to Ukraine’s 2014 borders is “an unrealistic objective”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/12/donald-trump-live-news-pentagon-chief-hegseth-heads-to-nato
(BBC News) The UK and US have not signed an international agreement on artificial intelligence (AI) at a global summit in Paris.
The statement, signed by dozens of countries including France, China and India, pledges an "open", "inclusive" and "ethical" approach to the technology's development.
In a brief statement, the UK government said it had not been able to add its name because of concerns about national security and "global governance."
Earlier, US Vice President JD Vance...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened to resume the war on Gaza unless Hamas releases captives by Saturday.
The ceasefire has been called into question as Hamas claims Israel violated key provisions of the agreement, prompting it to call off the release of three more captives on Saturday.
“If Hamas does not return our hostages by Saturday noon, the ceasefire will end, and the IDF will return to intense fighting...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) At least 51 people have died and others have been injured when a bus plunged into a polluted ravine outside Guatemala City, according to Guatemalan officials.
Mynor Ruano, a spokesman for the city’s fire service, told reporters on Monday that efforts were under way “to save other people who are trapped” in the wreckage. The bodies of 36 men and 15 women have been sent to a provincial morgue.
The bus was...
(BBC News) "What my parents taught me is that they used to live in peace and calm, without having to have any fear in their own country," says 19-year-old Nick. "I would like to live in a country where I don't have to be afraid."
I meet him in a small bar on a street corner in the ex-mining town of Freiberg, Saxony – where he is playing darts.
It's a cold, foggy night in February...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Libya authorities have uncovered nearly 50 bodies from two mass graves in the country’s southeastern desert, in the latest tragedy involving people seeking to reach Europe through the North African country.
The security directorate said in a statement on Sunday that one mass grave found on Friday in a farm in the southeastern city of Kufra contained 19 bodies. The remains were taken for autopsy.
Mohamed al-Fadeil, head of the security chamber...
