Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced Sunday that an agreement has been reached with Hamas to release additional hostages starting this Thursday, while also allowing Palestinians to return to the northern part of the Gaza Strip beginning Monday morning. Qatar helped mediate the agreement, which is expected to ease the first major crisis of … Read more
The Israeli military raided the Jerusalem home of a Hamas member released as part of an exchange for Israelis being held hostage in Gaza, detaining one person and roughing up others on Saturday evening, including a New York Times reporter conducting interviews at the scene. A squad of soldiers forced its way into the house … Read more
Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on Jan. 21, 2025. NYSE Stock futures traded lower on Sunday night as investors look ahead to a major earnings week. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 85 points, or 0.2%. S&P futures shed 0.5%, while Nasdaq 100 futures slid 245 points, or 1.1%. … Read more
Wedaeli Chibelushi in London and Emery Makumeno in Kinshasa BBC News Mbelechi Msochi Inga I and II were built in the 1970s and 1980s, while construction for Inga III was supposed to begin in 2020 From a set of roaring rapids, comes a grand vision. There are plans to build a magnificent, multi-billion dollar mega-dam … Read more
Swastik Pal Kakoli Das with a photographer of her six-year-old son Ishan, who drowned three months ago Mangala Pradhan will never forget the morning she lost her one-year-old son. It was 16 years ago, in the unforgiving Sundarbans – a vast, harsh delta of 100 islands in India’s West Bengal state. Her son Ajit, just … Read more
Drone point view of the Shanghai skyline at sunrise. Aerialperspective Images | Moment | Getty Images Japan and Hong Kong markets opened higher Monday, ahead of China’s manufacturing and industrial profit data. Japan’s Nikkei 225 rose 0.55% at the open, while the Topix added 0.92%. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index futures last traded at 20,147, … Read more
Hamas will release six hostages this week and Israel will allow Gazans to return to homes in the north from Monday, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says. The hostages include Arbel Yehud – the civilian at the centre of a row which has led to Israel delaying the return of Gazans to northern Gaza. Hamas … Read more
Tens of thousands of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo are fleeing towns in the east of the country as rebel forces close in on the city of Goma. Explosions and gunshots were heard in city – home to more than a million people – late on Sunday evening, according to local media reports. … Read more
People walk towards their homes through the destroyed streets of Gaza City on January 19, 2025. T Abood Abusalama | Afp | Getty Images Mediator Qatar announced early Monday that an agreement has been reached to release an Israeli civilian hostage and allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza, easing the first major crisis of … Read more
The World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 6, 2023. Aly Song | Reuters BEIJING — A slew of releases last week demonstrate how Chinese companies such as DeepSeek and ByteDance have moved quickly with artificial intelligence models that compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Now, many companies in China are increasingly building on that foundation … Read more