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Israel’s new defense policy keeps troops abroad, maybe for good

From Syria and Lebanon to Gaza and the West Bank, Israeli troops are establishing positions they are unlikely to abandon anytime soon. Quietly, as a result of the Hamas attack in October 2023, Israel has changed its defense policy. At the time, the Gaza border was assumed secure thanks to a small group of soldiers standing guard and high-tech fencing. The intelligence assessment was that the ...

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Zelenskyy offers partial ceasefire with Russia to restart peace talks

KYIV, Ukraine – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy proposed a new framework for a partial ceasefire with Russia on Tuesday, posting on X that Kyiv would be willing to release prisoners and agree to a truce that would ban long-range attacks on civilian and energy infrastructure.
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Arab leaders to endorse Gaza building plan to counter Trump

Leaders of Arab countries are meeting in Cairo to endorse a Gaza reconstruction plan to counter the controversial ideas of US President Donald Trump, though a number of crucial details need to be ironed out before the proposal is finalized.
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Washington, D.C., now ‘largely aligns’ with Moscow’s vision, Kremlin says

The Trump administration’s rewrite of decades of U.S. foreign policy on Russia, laid bare in the Oval Office confrontation between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is bringing Washington, D.C., into alignment with Moscow, the Kremlin said Sunday, a shift that could upend the geopolitics that have governed international relations since War World II.
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Israel accepts US proposal for Gaza truce, urges Hamas to join

Israel has accepted a new Gaza ceasefire proposal from the U.S., Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced, hours before a suspension of hostilities with Hamas was due to end. If Hamas also accepts the deal offered by White House envoy Steve Witkoff, designed to span the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan and the Jewish festival of Passover, Israel is ready to enter implementation ...
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Pope Francis suffers a setback, inhaling vomit

After days of a cautious optimism and two weeks in a hospital with pneumonia in both lungs, Pope Francis on Friday suffered another respiratory crisis, renewing concerns about the prognosis for the leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Trump, Zelenskyy fail to sign minerals deal after argument

Plans to sign a critical minerals deal between the United States and Ukraine were scrapped after Donald Trump’s meeting Friday with Volodymyr Zelenskyy quickly devolved into a fiery exchange over the Ukrainian leader’s doubts that the U.S. president’s efforts to broker a deal with Russia would yield lasting peace.