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Dalal and Tal Shoham, who were released from captivity in February 2025, spoke ahead of the hostage release. Hours before Monday’s expected hostage handover, Tal Shoham, who spent more than 500 days in Hamas captivity, and Ilan Dalal, father of hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal — with whom Shoham was held — expressed gratitude to both President…

Mark Sanchez is out of the hospital. The former quarterback appeared at Marion County Jail on Sunday to have his fingerprints and a mugshot taken. It was his first public appearance since he was arrested and charged with a felony and multiple misdemeanors in a stabbing incident. Sanchez, who was stabbed in an altercation with…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Their faces stare down from every street corner in Israel on posters now sun-faded and ripped. Their stories, told by anguished family members, are almost as well-known as celebrities. They are civilians and soldiers, fathers and sons. Some were at the Nova music festival, where almost 400 people were killed…

  (Reuters) -China has intensified enforcement of its import restrictions on U.S. chips, including Nvidia’s artificial intelligence processors, the Financial Times reported, as Beijing sharpens its focus on promoting home-grown semiconductor production. Chinese customs officials were dispatched to key ports to conduct strict checks on semiconductor shipments, the newspaper said on Friday, citing unidentified sources….

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Wednesday that it has fired a U.S. diplomat over a romantic relationship he admitted having with a Chinese woman alleged to have ties to the Chinese Communist Party. The dismissal is believed to be the first of its kind for violating a ban on such relationships that was…

STRASBOURG (Reuters) -Recent drone incidents and other airspace violations show Europe is facing hybrid warfare to which it must respond with measures that go beyond traditional defence, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday. “This is not random harassment,” von der Leyen said in a speech in European Parliament in Strasbourg. “It…

Russian president Vladimir Putin “lied to Donald Trump” about his intentions to put an end to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Trump’s former envoy for Ukraine negotiations told Euronews. And this is why “it’s quite possible that the US will send Tomahawks to Ukraine,” Kurt Volker said. On 19 August, just days after Trump’s meeting…

LONDON (Reuters) -British police will get powers to restrict repeat protests held in the same place, the government said on Sunday, a day after the latest pro-Palestinian demonstration went ahead despite requests to cancel it in the wake of a deadly attack at a synagogue. The new powers will allow senior police officers to consider…

TOKYO (Reuters) -Sanae Takaichi is likely to be Japan’s first female prime minister after winning the race on Saturday to lead the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. The former internal affairs minister, a conservative nationalist with an expansionary agenda, is expected to replace Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba since the LDP is the largest in parliament. Below…

Health officials are warning of a seasonal surge in flu and Covid-19 as autumn arrives, but as the two viruses share many symptoms, it’s difficult to tell them apart. When a sniffle seems to progress further than “just a cold”, it’s hard to know what it might be – but there are differences in how…