(Al Jazeera Media Network) Israeli prison authorities say a second batch of 39 Palestinians have been released after 13 Israeli hostages and four foreigners were released by Hamas from the Gaza Strip.
The transfer on the second day of the scheduled four-day truce was delayed for hours over Hamas allegations that Israel was violating truce deal.
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(Al Jazeera Media Network) After seven weeks of war, the four-day truce between Israel and Hamas began on Friday morning. Under this truce, 39 Palestinian women and children were released on Friday.
Here is what’s known about those released and those who might be released in the coming days.
Of the 39 Palestinians released by Israel, 17 are minors.
They are:
Yousef Mohammad Mustafa Ata from Ramallah
Qusai Hani Ali Ahmad from Bethlehem
Jibreel Ghassan Ismail Jibreel from Qalqilya
Mohammad Ahmad...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Palestinian armed group Hamas has released 24 hostages held captive in Gaza for almost seven weeks, and Israel has released 39 Palestinian prisoners, hours after an Israel-Hamas truce mediated by Qatar came into effect.
Among the captives released were 13 Israelis, 10 Thai nationals, and one Filipino citizen, Majed al-Ansari, a spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry in Qatar, said on Friday.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Israel and the...
(BBC News) OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman will return as boss just days after he was fired by the board, the firm has said.
The agreement "in principle" involves new board members being appointed, the tech company added.
Altman's sacking on Friday astonished industry watchers and led to staff threatening mass resignations unless he was reinstated.
"I am looking forward to returning to OpenAI," Altman said in a post on X.
He added: "I love OpenAI, and everything I've...
(BBC News) The unexpectedly meaty win for controversial, hard-right politician Geert Wilders in Wednesday's general election in the Netherlands set international headlines on fire.
Right-wing nationalists across Europe rushed to congratulate the populist politician, sometimes dubbed the Dutch Trump – partly for his dyed, bouffant-like hairdo, and partly for his famously firebrand rhetoric.
Wilders' publicly expressed views – including linking Muslim immigration with terrorism and calling for a ban on mosques and the Quran – are...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Authorities in the United States have thwarted a plot to kill a Sikh separatist in the country and issued a warning to India over concerns the government in New Delhi was involved, the Financial Times has reported.
Citing unnamed sources, the FT on Wednesday identified Gurpatwant Singh Pannun as the target of the allegedly foiled plot.
The report said Pannun had declined to say whether U.S. authorities had warned him about the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Israel’s prime minister managed to secure a truce with Hamas with the backing of the far-right coalition partners he needs to stay in power, but several cabinet members expressed their displeasure at giving the Palestinian group too many concessions.
The agreement between Israel and Hamas reached early on Wednesday, with mediation from Qatar, includes a multi-day truce and the release of 50 hostages being held in Gaza in exchange for 150 Palestinians jailed...
(BBC News) A vehicle has exploded at a bridge between the U.S. and Canada, with FBI describing the situation as "very fluid."
Two people inside the vehicle died in the explosion. Witnesses have described seeing a car approaching the bridge at high speed, followed by a large explosion.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer was injured in the blast and has been transported to hospital, says the BBC.
Rainbow Bridge is in Niagara...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Leaders of major emerging economies called for an end to Israel’s war on Gaza on Tuesday, and for a cessation of hostilities on both sides to ease the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
In a virtual summit chaired by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, the BRICS grouping denounced attacks on civilians in Palestine and Israel, with many leaders calling the forced displacement of Palestinians, within Gaza or outside...
(BBC News) Microsoft has offered to match the pay of any staff who join it from crisis-ridden OpenAI.
Sam Altman was controversially sacked as CEO on Friday, leading to a job offer at Microsoft to lead "a new advanced AI research team."
Almost every staff member at OpenAI has threatened to leave unless Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman are reinstated.
It is still unclear whether Altman will ultimately join Microsoft, which is OpenAI's biggest investor by far.
Evan Morikawa, an...
