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Monday, Jan 13th, 2025 - CAIRO (AP) — U.S. and Arab mediators made significant progress overnight toward brokering a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war and the release of scores of hostages held in the Gaza Strip, but a deal hasn't been reached yet, officials said Monday. Three officials acknowledged that progress has been made and said the coming days would be critical for ending more than 15 months of fighting that has destabilized ...

Monday, Jan 13th, 2025 - SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea's spy agency told lawmakers on Monday that two North Korean soldiers who were captured by Ukrainian forces while fighting alongside Russian forces in Russia's Kursk border region haven't expressed a desire to seek asylum in South Korea. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he's willing to hand over the soldiers to North Korea if the country's authoritarian leader, ...

Monday, Jan 13th, 2025 - The President-elect's brand of America First isolationism has always sat awkwardly with his Napoleonic tendencies. Vladimir Lenin famously wrote that imperialism is the "highest stage of capitalism," by which he meant that a global economy based on the profit motive would inevitably end up with rich capitalist countries subjugating less developed territories and exploiting their resources. As Donald Trump prepares ...

Sunday, Jan 12th, 2025 - President-elect Trump blasted special counsel Jack Smith as a "disgrace" to himself and the country following Smith's resignation from the Justice Department. Smith's resignation was announced in a court filing Saturday. "The Special Counsel completed his work and submitted his final confidential report on January 7, 2025, and separated from the Department on January 10," a footnote in the filing said. Trump took ...

Sunday, Jan 12th, 2025 - President-elect Trump trolled his political adversaries by posting a spoof of his conversation with former President Barack Obama on his Truth Social account, with the former president telling Trump, "I knew you'd win." The video shows Trump and Obama trashing VP Kamala Harris' doomed presidential campaign at former President Jimmy Carter's funeral, with what appears to be AI-generated dialogue that mimics the ...

Sunday, Jan 12th, 2025 - RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Germany's foreign minister said Sunday that sanctions against Syrian officials responsible for war crimes must remain in place but called for a "smart approach" to provide relief to the Syrian population after last month's overthrow of President Bashar Assad . Annalena Baerbock spoke to reporters after arriving in Saudi Arabia for a conference on Syria's future attended by top ...

Sunday, Jan 12th, 2025 - Vice President-elect JD Vance just provided the clearest explanation yet of the Trump administration 's plans to pardon Jan. 6 rioters , telling "Fox News Sunday" that while there's "a little bit of a gray area there," those who committed violence during the 2021 U.S. Capitol attack "obviously" shouldn't be pardoned. Those who protested "peacefully," however, can expect to have their records wiped clean . "I think ...