(BBC News) Hamas says 110 Palestinian prisoners have been freed as buses arrive in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
It is the third release of hostages since the ceasefire deal between Israel and Gaza began earlier this month.
Earlier, seven hostages – two Israelis and five Thais – were freed in Khan Younis, as hundreds of people swarmed round the hostages' vans in chaotic scenes.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said they were "shocking scenes".
An eighth hostage, Agam...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) More than 60 people are believed to have been killed after an American Airlines plane collided with an army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport near the District of Columbia in the US.
American Airlines said on Thursday that 60 passengers and four crew members were on board the jet travelling from Wichita, Kansas, to the United States capital. An unnamed army official confirmed that the helicopter, on...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has been named president for a transitional period, the Syrian state news agency (SANA) has reported.
Al-Sharaa was also authorised to form a temporary legislative council for the transitional phase that will carry out its task until a new constitution is adopted, SANA reported on Wednesday, citing military official Hassan Abdel Ghani.
Al-Sharaa is the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a former opposition armed group...
(BBC News) Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen visited three European capitals on Tuesday, days after US President Donald Trump reiterated his interest in acquiring Greenland.
Over the space of a day, Frederiksen met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin, French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, and NATO leader Mark Rutte in Brussels.
Although the leaders were said to have discussed issues including Ukraine and hybrid Russian attacks in the Baltic Sea, the Danish PM's whirlwind...
(BBC News) US President Donald Trump warns Chinese startup DeepSeek is a wake-up call for America's technology industry.
The emergence of DeepSeek's low-cost AI chatbot caused shockwaves on Wall Street, with Nvidia losing more than $500 billion in market value.
Shares in other major technology firms fell steeply in value when markets opened on Monday. That day, DeepSeek said it was hit by a "large-scale malicious attack".
Tech-focused shares in Japan fell on Tuesday, while stock...
(BBC News) US President Donald Trump has said he wants Egypt and Jordan to take in Palestinians from Gaza.
Trump said he had made the request to Jordan's King Abdullah and planned to ask Egypt's president on Sunday, too.
Describing Gaza as a "demolition site", Trump said: "You're talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing." He added that the move "could be temporary" or "could be...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) US President Donald Trump has ordered tariffs and visa restrictions on Colombia after Bogota turned away two US military aircraft transporting migrants being deported under Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Washington will slap Colombia with 25 percent “emergency tariffs” on all goods coming into the US, which would then be raised to 50 percent in a week, Trump wrote on Truth Social, the social media platform that he owns on Sunday.
He added that...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Hamas has released four female Israeli soldiers held in Gaza, and 200 Palestinian prisoners have been released from Israeli jails as part of the ceasefire agreement that halted more than 15 months of war.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirmed on Saturday that it had transferred 128 Palestinian detainees to Gaza and the West Bank while local authorities handled the release and transfer of the remainder, completing the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) At least 12 peacekeepers, including two from the UN peacekeeping force MONUSCO, have been killed in fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), authorities said.
Congolese troops and peacekeepers have been battling in recent days to stop an advance by M23 rebels on the city of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province.
The three-year M23 rebellion in Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich east has intensified in January with rebels seizing control of...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The Israeli army’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon will last beyond the 60 days agreed in a ceasefire deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says, claiming the agreement has not yet been fully enforced by Lebanon.
The statement on Friday came after the Israeli army attacked towns in the border region of southern Lebanon just two days before it is supposed to withdraw troops under the ceasefire with Hezbollah.
Lebanon’s official National News Agency...
