Around us, a cacophony of sound – the wails of sirens blended with chants, shouts and revving engines. Ramallah is never a quiet city but today, here in its heart, it was frenetic. Ahead of us, three coaches edged their way through the crowds, accompanied by motorbikes and Palestinian police officers, pushing people out of
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Four female Israeli soldiers taken hostage by Hamas on 7 October 2023 have been released as part of a ceasefire agreement which also saw 200 Palestinian prisoners freed. Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy and Liri Albag, all aged between 19 and 20, were released to the Red Cross in Gaza City during a heavily-choreographed
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Hamas released four female Israeli army soldiers on Saturday as part of a hostage-for-prisoner exchange, more than a year after the women were taken captive during the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, that started the war. In a choreographed release, the four hostages wore military-style fatigues as they walked onto a
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The country’s road ahead looks increasingly bleak, but it has great countercyclical expansion potential via domestic and international rebalancing In a daring thought experiment, imagine just for a moment that you are the powerful president of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). You are sitting next to a cozy fireplace in a mountain retreat, looking
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A man sits in the rubble of his destroyed home in Rafah as Palestinians return to the southern Gaza Strip city for the first time in months, after Israeli troops withdrew to the border, Jan. 20. Anas Baba/NPR hide caption toggle caption Anas Baba/NPR RAFAH, Gaza Strip — For nearly 16 months, Israeli airstrikes pounded
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The women were reunited with their families soon after and then flown aboard helicopters to a hospital in central Israel. Photos published by the Israeli military showed them embracing tightly with their parents, in smiles and tears. Hamas fighters in central Gaza ahead of the release of the four women. Credit: AP The 200 Palestinians
The world’s focus will be on the remaining survivors of Nazi Germany’s atrocities on Monday as world leaders and royalty join them for commemorations on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The main observances take place at the site in southern Poland where Nazi Germany murdered over a million people, most of them Jews, but also Poles,
Four female Israeli soldiers who had been held hostage by Hamas returned safely to Israel Saturday after the militants paraded them in front of a crowd of thousands in Gaza City and then handed them over to the Red Cross. In exchange, Israel released 200 Palestinian prisoners as part of the fragile ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. The four
At the age of 33, I sometimes feel like I’ve already lived a thousand lives. I’m originally from Los Angeles, and over the last decade, I’ve done everything from teaching English in China to serving as an emergency aid worker in Turkey during the war in Syria. After I completed my master’s degree in London,
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