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(Douglas Sacha/Getty Images) (LONDON) — Munich police said “around 20” people were injured after a “vehicle drove into a group of people” in the center of the city on Thursday morning. “The driver was able to be secured on site and currently poses no further danger,” police said in a post in German on social […]

Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images (LONDON) — The United States is preparing to return cybercrime kingpin Alexander Vinnik to Russian custody as part of an exchange for American Marc Fogel, a U.S. official said Wednesday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to identify Vinnik but acknowledged earlier Wednesday that a Russian citizen was freed in exchange […]

(WASHINGTON) — Belarusian journalist Andrei Kuznechyk was released from prison on Wednesday after serving more than three years in prison, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. The terms of the deal were not immediately clear. “This is a joyous day for Andrey, his wife, Alesya, and their two young children. After more than three years […]

Doaa Albaz/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON and NEW YORK) — Many Palestinian doctors who worked in the Gaza Strip are either dead, have fled the territory or are in prison, U.S. doctors told the United Nations. Four U.S. medical doctors who have worked in the Gaza Strip for periods throughout the past 15 months spoke about […]

Ron Sachs/Pool via Bloomberg (LONDON) — Egypt plans to “present a comprehensive vision for the reconstruction” of the Gaza Strip that does not require the displacement of Palestinians, the country’s foreign ministry said. Cairo said it will work with President Donald Trump’s administration “to achieve a comprehensive and just peace in the region by reaching a […]

Mohammad Mansour/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — Israel has occupied the Gaza Strip and West Bank since its victory in the Six-Day War in 1967. Palestinians hope that one day both territories will become part of a nation-state they can call their own. But that dream seems further away than ever following Hamas’ attack on […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (LONDON and THE PENTAGON) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared at his first meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group on Wednesday to tell allies that the liberation of all Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory “is an unrealistic objective.” “The bloodshed must stop and this war must end,” Hegseth said, in one of the […]

Viktor Kovalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images (LONDON) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine called on Western partners to apply more pressure to Russia after an overnight ballistic missile and drone strike killed at least one person and set multiple fires in the capital Kyiv. “Apartment buildings, office buildings and civilian infrastructure were damaged,” Zelenskyy […]

(WASHINGTON) — American Marc Fogel, who has been held in Russia since being arrested on drug charges in 2021, has been freed, according to the White House. “Today, President Donald J. Trump and his Special Envoy Steve Witkoff are able to announce that Mr. Witkoff is leaving Russian airspace with Marc Fogel, an American who […]

Omar Al-qattaa/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — If Hamas doesn’t return Israeli hostages by Saturday afternoon, “the ceasefire will be terminated,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday in a statement following a meeting with his security cabinet. “The decision that I passed unanimously in the cabinet is this: If Hamas does not return our […]