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Hamas ready to release four more Israeli hostages
AFP, Published on 24/01/2025
» CAIRO - Hamas has released the names of four Israeli women hostages who will be freed on Saturday in the second exchange of the ceasefire agreement.
400,000 displaced by DR Congo conflict
AFP, Published on 24/01/2025
» GOMA, DR Congo - The DR Congo army and M23 on Friday clashed near the main city in the country’s volatile east as the UN warned the raging conflict had displaced over 400,000 people this year and could spark a regional war.
Trump's deportation operation underway, hundreds of migrants arrested
AFP, Published on 24/01/2025
» WASHINGTON - Hundreds of migrants in the United States were arrested Thursday and others flown out of the country on military aircraft as President Donald Trump's promised mass deportation operation got underway, the White House said.
US Typhon missile to stay in Philippines
Reuters, Published on 24/01/2025
» MANILA — The United States military's Typhon launchers which can fire multi-purpose missiles up to thousands of kilometres will stay in the Philippines for the time being, the national security adviser to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Friday.
Tajikistan launches crackdown on 'witchcraft' and fortune-telling
AFP, Published on 24/01/2025
» DUSHANBE, Tajikistan — In a block of flats in Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe, a turbaned woman cautiously opened the door of her apartment a chink, letting out a waft of incense.
Survivors strive to ensure young do not forget Auschwitz
AFP, Published on 24/01/2025
» PARIS - On a frosty Polish winter evening, 96-year-old Esther Senot told the 100 or so shivering students at Auschwitz-Birkenau how she was a teenager much like them when she was first brought to the Nazi death camp on September 2, 1943.
'Living in a cage': West Bank checkpoints proliferate after Gaza truce
AFP, Published on 24/01/2025
» TAYBEH (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Father Bashar Basiel moved freely in and out of his parish in the occupied West Bank until Israeli troops installed gates at the entrance of his village Taybeh overnight, just hours after a ceasefire began in Gaza.
Federal judge blocks Trump bid to restrict birthright citizenship
AFP, Published on 24/01/2025
» LOS ANGELES - A federal judge blocked Donald Trump's attempt to restrict birthright citizenship in the United States on Thursday as liberal states scored their first victory against the new president's hardline agenda.
Bamboo farm gets chopping for US zoo's hungry new pandas
AFP, Published on 24/01/2025
» FRONT ROYAL (UNITED STATES) — On a snow-blanketed field in Virginia, a handful of workers were silent but for the groan of a chainsaw chopping through bamboo -- a delicacy for their furry clients down the road in the US capital of Washington.
242 million children's schooling disrupted by climate shocks in 2024: Unicef
AFP, Published on 24/01/2025
» UNITED NATIONS (UNITED STATES) - Extreme weather disrupted the schooling of about 242 million children in 85 countries last year -- roughly one in seven students, the UN children's agency reported Thursday, deploring an "overlooked" aspect of the climate crisis.