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GAZA/TEL AVIV, ISRAEL — Some hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip following the militant group’s attack last month on Israel could be released as early as Thursday, after an agreement announced by Qatar that includes Israeli forces pausing their attacks on Gaza for four days. Qatar said Hamas would release 50 women and children, […]

Best Buy cut its full-year sales outlook Tuesday, as the company weathers a period of cooler demand and prepares for price-conscious holiday shoppers. The consumer electronics retailer beat Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations, but fell short on revenue. Best Buy said it now expects revenue to range from $43.1 billion to $43.7 billion for the fiscal […]

WASHINGTON. – U.S. President Joe Biden turns 81 on Monday, a milestone likely to draw attention to his status as the oldest person to ever occupy the Oval Office, with opinion polls showing Americans worried he is too old for the post he is seeking reelection to. Biden has addressed those who worry that he […]

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS Two Palestinians were killed overnight in Israeli raids on the occupied West Bank. 31 babies have been evacuated from Shifa Hospital Israeli airstrikes kill scores at a school in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza. President Biden said Saturday the Palestinian Authority should ultimately govern the Gaza Strip and the West Bank […]

Airlines expect record travel demand this Thanksgiving. Executives say they’re prepared for the hordes. The Transportation Security Administration expects to screen 30 million passengers from Nov. 17 through Nov. 28, the most ever. The Sunday after Thanksgiving is expected to be the busiest day during that period with an estimated 2.9 million passengers taking to […]

SUKHBAATAR, MONGOLIA — The moon glowed in the predawn Mongolia sky as Agvaantogtokh and his family prepared for another big move. On horseback, he rode to a well with nearly a thousand sheep and goats. Occasionally, he and his wife, Nurmaa, stopped to help struggling young ones, weak after a harsh winter. Thousands of miles away […]

U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT — The United States on Thursday removed the Chinese Ministry of Public Security’s Institute of Forensic Science (IFS) from a trade sanctions list, in a bid to move forward with counternarcotics cooperation with China. The decision comes as U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration is negotiating with China to resume bilateral cooperation and establish […]

More than 2,400 Ukrainian children have been taken to Belarus since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, according to new research published Thursday by Yale University. The findings by the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health are the most extensive yet about Belarus’ alleged role in Russia’s forced relocation of Ukrainian children. The […]

ABUJA, NIGERIA — Nigerian experts are hopeful that deals reached last week with Saudi Arabia will boost local oil production and help grow the economy. The deals included a pledge by Saudi officials to fix Nigeria’s four broken oil refineries, which haven’t worked in years, forcing Africa’s second-largest oil producer to import all of its fuel. […]

WASHINGTON — With Israel under increasing pressure due to a steadily rising death toll in Gaza and images of Palestinian suffering flooding social media, the United States turned to a familiar page in its foreign policy playbook: it declassified and released some intelligence. Both the White House and Pentagon on Tuesday announced the U.S. had information […]