Barcelona and Paris-Saint Germain have booked their places in the semifinals of the Champions League but were heavily tested by Borussia Dortmund and Aston Villa, respectively, in the quarterfinal second legs. Barca went through with a 5-3 aggregate win, despite losing 3-1 at Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday, with Serhou Guirassy hitting a hat-trick. Holding a
People walk by a tent shelter near the rubble of a collapsed building in western Gaza City on April 15. OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images TEL AVIV, Israel and DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Hamas is rejecting a new Israeli proposal to pause the war in
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It was in the evening that the bombing started to intensify. Salah Jundia, his father and brothers huddled together in their home in Shujaiyya, just east of Gaza City, trying to work out what to do. It was too risky for them to leave at night. There were a lot of them too. Extended family
Sisters Hind and Heba Al-Hourani were being treated at Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital on Sunday when Israel ordered everyone in the building to evacuate in the middle of the night, before targeting the hospital. “All of a sudden, [it felt like] everyone ran out and was going to leave us behind,” said Hind, 9, whose
Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen is vowing to travel to El Salvador to negotiate the release of a wrongly deported man after the Trump administration ignored a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate his return to the U.S. In a letter sent to the El Salvadorian Ambassador on April 13 before Trump’s tête-à-tête with El Salvador
Yolande Knell Middle East correspondent Rushdi Abualouf Gaza correspondent EPA Armed members of Hamas’s military wing took part in hostage handover ceremonies during the recent ceasefire Hamas is said to have rejected an Israeli proposal for a six-week ceasefire in Gaza which called for the armed group to give up its weapons. A senior Palestinian
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Columbia University said it was holding “good faith” negotiations with U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to regain federal funding, hours after Harvard rejected the administration’s demands to audit the “viewpoint diversity” of its students and faculty, among other overhauls. Columbia’s interim president, Claire Shipman, on Monday night said the private New York school would not
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Workers transporting soil containing rare earth elements for export at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China, Oct. 31, 2010. Stringer | Reuters As China imposes export controls on rare earth elements, the U.S. would be unable to fill a potential shortfall, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies — and this could threaten Washington’s
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ODESA, Ukraine — ODESA, Ukraine (AP) — NATO’s support for Ukraine remains “unwavering,” the alliance’s secretary-general said Tuesday, emphasizing that more than 20 billion euros in security assistance have already been pledged by NATO allies in the first three months of 2025. Mark Rutte visited Ukraine on Tuesday and met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in
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(Bloomberg) — Russia’s ruble has surged to become the best performing global currency, posting this year’s strongest gains against the dollar to outpace even the traditional safe haven of gold. The ruble has strengthened 38% versus the dollar on the over-the-counter market since the beginning of this year, data compiled by Bloomberg shows. While the
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