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• Conclave and The Brutalist win big at the Baftas

  16-02-2025 23:50 via bbc.com
  
  Pope drama and immigration epic win four apiece; there are also wins for Zoe Saldana and Mikey Madison.
  
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• Shakira cancels Lima concert after being hospitalised during global tour

  16-02-2025 23:43 via theguardian.com
  
  The Colombian star went to the emergency room in Peru’s capital on Saturday night, days after launching her first worldwide tour in seven yearsShakira cancelled her concert in the Peruvian capital on Sunday after being hospitalised with abdominal pain, a setback that comes days after she launched her first worldwide tour in seven years.The 48-year-old Colombian star posted on her social media accounts that she had gone to the emergency room on Saturday night and remained in hospital. Conti
  
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• At least nine dead in US floods and heavy rain

  16-02-2025 23:39 via bbc.com
  
  Kentucky has seen the worst effects of the rain thus far, reporting at least eight dead.
  
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• WATCH: Flashback: When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio became Pope Francis

  16-02-2025 23:31
  A look back at when Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio became Pope Francis on March 13, 2013.
  
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• 'I've seen thousands of bodies' - life of boy volunteer at a Gaza hospital

  16-02-2025 23:06 via bbc.com
  
  Zakaria, 11, volunteered at a busy Gaza hospital during the war - one of three children in a new BBC documentary.
  
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• Watch: Trump's motorcade drives lap of Daytona 500 racetrack

  16-02-2025 22:43 via bbc.com
  
  The president opened the Nascar season with a flyby and lap in front of the racing cars.
  
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• In pictures: Stars grace the red carpet for Bafta Film Awards

  16-02-2025 22:25 via bbc.com
  
  Stars including Cynthia Erivo, Mikey Madison, Adrien Brody and Ariana Grande were in their finest outfits.
  
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• Maddison does 'talking on the pitch' in response to critics

  16-02-2025 22:21 via bbc.com
  
  James Maddison did his best to "block out the noise" by scoring the winner as he helped Tottenham beat Manchester United in the Premier League on Sunday.
  
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• 'My job is so hard' - Amorim frustrated as Man Utd lose again

  16-02-2025 22:14 via bbc.com
  
  Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim says his job is "so hard" after defeat at Tottenham on Sunday leaves his side 15th in the Premier League.
  
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• Shakira hospitalized, postpones concert in Peru

  16-02-2025 22:07 via nbcnews.com
  
  Shakira said on X that she has been hospitalized and will have to postpone her scheduled concert Sunday in Peru.
  
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• Full list of winners at Baftas 2025

  16-02-2025 22:05 via bbc.com
  
  The winners of the stars and films at the Bafta Film Awards, celebrating the best in big screen action over the past 12 months, have been revealed.
  
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• Rwanda-backed M23 rebels breach second major city in Congo's mineral-rich east

  16-02-2025 21:42 via foxnews.com
  
  Rwanda-backed rebels have "occupied" a second major city in mineral-rich eastern Congo, Congo's government said Sunday, as M23 rebels positioned themselves at the governor's office in Bukavu and pledged to clean up after the "old regime."Associated Press journalists witnessed scores of residents cheering on the rebels after they entered Bukavu following a dayslong march from Goma, a city of 2 million people they seized last month.The rebels saw little resistance from government forces against th
  
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• Sam Fender's new album drops, and The White Lotus is back: What to stream this week

  16-02-2025 21:31 via bbc.com
  
  Other highlights this week include EastEnders turning 40, Tate McRae's new album, and the release of Avowed.
  
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• Trump border czar Tom Homan call Eric Adams quid pro quo allegation 'ridiculous'

  16-02-2025 21:29 via nbcnews.com
  
  President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan denied allegations of a quid pro quo between the administration and New York Mayor Eric Adams, calling the notion that the Justice Department moved to dismiss criminal charges against Adams in exchange for the mayor's cooperation on Trump’s immigration plan “ridiculous.”
  
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• Baftas 2025: Conclave beats The Brutalist to best picture as Mikey Madison scoops best actress

  16-02-2025 21:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Both Edward Berger and Brady Corbet’s dramas take four awards while Demi Moore denied comeback prize as competition heats up for next month’s Oscars
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  • Baftas 2025 red carpet: sequins, satin and a ski mask – in picturesConclave, Edward Berger’s Vatican-set thriller starring Ralph Fiennes as a cardinal overseeing the election of a new pope, went into this
  
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• 'Everyone gets nervous' - what title race looks like after Liverpool win

  16-02-2025 20:44 via bbc.com
  
  The Premier League title race is heading towards the final straight - after Liverpool edged past Wolves, how does their run-in compare to Arsenal's?
  
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• Trump under fire for likening himself to Napoleon amid attacks on judges

  16-02-2025 19:52 via theguardian.com
  President posted ‘he who saves his country does not violate any laws’ quote attributed to French emperorCritics rounded on Donald Trump on Sunday for likening himself to Napoleon in a “dictatorial” social media post echoing the French emperor’s assertion that “he who saves his country does not violate any laws”.The post came at the end of another tumultuous week early in Trump’s second presidency, during which acolytes questioned the legitimacy of
  
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• More than 10 dead in Kentucky flooding with number expected to increase

  16-02-2025 19:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Heavy snowfall expected in New England, with bone-chilling cold predicted for northern plainsMuch of the US faced another round of biting winter weather on Sunday, with torrential rains causing intense flooding in Kentucky and resulting in multiple deaths.Kentucky governor Andy Beshear on Sunday said at least 11 people were dead, with the number expected to increase. Continue reading...
  
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• Raducanu beats Sakkari in Dubai to end losing run

  16-02-2025 19:28 via bbc.com
  
  Britain's Emma Raducanu ends her losing run with a straight sets victory over Greece's Maria Sakkari in the first round of the Dubai Tennis Championships.
  
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• MLK’s family fear new batch of assassination files will have FBI ‘smears’

  16-02-2025 19:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Family of Martin Luther King Jr says Trump mandate could revive J Edgar Hoover’s efforts to discredit revered activistThe family of Martin Luther King Jr has expressed concern over Donald Trump’s executive order to release records surrounding the civil rights leader’s assassination, saying the president’s mandate could revive efforts to discredit the revered activist with the public.Speaking to Axios, a friend of the King family said: “We know J Edgar Hoover tried t
  
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• Couple held in Iran need 'prompt' UK action, says Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband

  16-02-2025 19:21 via bbc.com
  
  Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband urges the government to work "more promptly" than it did on her case.
  
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• UK weather: temperatures could hit 14C this week after ‘anticyclonic gloom’

  16-02-2025 19:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Met Office says snowfall may continue briefly in parts of UK before milder conditions well above February averageThe UK will have warmer weather this week and sunshine in a number of areas on Monday, forecasters have said.After snow and torrential rain in parts of the country over the weekend, rising temperatures will bring a welcome respite. Continue reading...
  
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• Macron convenes European leaders for Ukraine summit amid tension with US

  16-02-2025 19:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Paris meeting aims to retake initiative on talks about Ukraine’s future as US and Russian delegates prepare to meetThe sudden transatlantic chasm over Ukraine will be laid bare on Monday when US officials start preliminary talks in Riyadh with Russian counterparts over a ceasefire just as Emmanuel Macron hosts a Paris summit of European defence powers to demand the US ends the lockout of Europe and Kyiv from the process.The US and Russia talks come ahead of a planned meeting this week betw
  
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• ‘Karla Sofía I kiss you’: Emilia Pérez director extends Bafta olive branch to absent star

  16-02-2025 19:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Jacques Audiard thanks lead actor Gascón during Bafta acceptance speech after weeks of controversy over her social media postsEmilia Pérez director Jacques Audiard has thanked his lead actor, Karla Sofía Gascón, during an acceptance speech at the Baftas – following weeks of controversy surrounding her bigoted social media posts.Emilia Pérez beat out four other films in the best film not in the English language category: Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagin
  
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• Weekend voting among changes needed to overhaul UK elections system, officials say

  16-02-2025 18:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Fewer polling stations and earlier deadline for postal vote applications also recommended to modernise electionsThe UK’s elections system needs a fundamental overhaul including weekend voting and a cut in the number of polling stations, the group representing electoral officials has said.Years of changes in everything from postal voting to mandatory ID, with more reforms planned, has involved “bolting 21st century voter expectations on to 19th century infrastructure”, the Assoc
  
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• Egypt draws up Gaza reconstruction plan that would exclude Hamas

  16-02-2025 18:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Alternative to Trump plan would involve committee of technocrats but future military status of Hamas unresolvedAn alternative to Donald Trump’s plan to turn the Gaza Strip into a US-owned “Riviera of the Middle East” is being prepared by Egypt in conjunction with the World Bank, under which Hamas would be formally excluded from governance and control of the territory’s reconstruction.The process would be handed over on an interim basis to the control of a social or commun
  
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• Trump’s return means UK must swiftly find a way to increase defence spending | Peter Walker

  16-02-2025 18:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Under Biden, the move could wait until the UK worked out how to meet its 2.5% GDP commitment. Not nowIt has been one of the few political constants in a turbulent period for British politics: an agreement that defence spending really should increase. But in the second era of Donald Trump, what was a consensual background hum has suddenly become an ear-splitting alarm.European Nato members, the UK among them, have long been used to US presidents urging them to spend 2% of GDP at a bare minimum, s
  
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• Ukraine recaptures frontline village amid signs of slowing Russian advance

  16-02-2025 18:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Pischane in Donetsk back under Kyiv’s control as Zelenskyy renews call for fighting to end ‘with just and lasting peace’Ukrainian forces have recaptured a village on the frontline in the country’s east, amid signs Russia’s advance may be slowing down and as Volodymyr Zelenskyy renewed his call for the fighting to end “with a just and lasting peace”.On Sunday Ukrainian forces took back the village of Pischane, south-west of the city of Pokrovsk, military
  
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• US isolation threatens global democracy, warns former PM Major

  16-02-2025 18:16 via bbc.com
  
  Sir John Mayorsays US policy will embolden Russia and China, with gains since the fall of the Soviet Union being reversed.
  
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• Gold mine collapse in Mali kills 42, injures several others

  16-02-2025 18:10 via nbcnews.com
  
  BAMAKO, Mali — A gold mine collapsed in eastern Mali, killing dozens of people and injuring many more, according to Malian television and officials in the Kéniéba district where the accident occurred.
  
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• Secondary school teacher paid damages after alleged harassment by pupils’ parents

  16-02-2025 18:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Kevin Flanagan, headteacher at Pensby High School, said Keith and Stephanie Critchley harassed him in person and onlineA secondary school headteacher has been paid damages in the settlement of a legal claim against abusive parents who he alleged launched a campaign of harassment against him, including turning up at his family home and verbally abusing him at the school gates.Kevin Flanagan, the headteacher of Pensby High School in Birkenhead, was successful in his claim against Keith and Stephan
  
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• Embrace of Indigenous artists reaches London thanks to influence of Venice Biennale

  16-02-2025 17:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Curators and artists say this is a time of overdue recognition but others are cautious about the longevity of the momentAt last year’s Venice Biennale, the pavilions were packed with indigenous art from around the world.Artists from the Tupinambá community in Brazil sat alongside work by the late Rosa Elena Curruchich, who made pieces about Indigenous women in Guatemala. The Amazonian artist Aycoobo was celebrated, as were carvings by the Māori artist Fred Graham. The eventual
  
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• UK must act more promptly over latest Iran detentions, says Richard Ratcliffe

  16-02-2025 17:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe expresses concern for Craig and Lindsay Foreman who were held in JanuaryThe husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has called on ministers to act “more promptly” than they did to help free his wife, after Iran detained a British couple on a motorcycle trip.Richard Ratcliffe, whose wife was freed in 2022 after five years in a Tehran prison, expressed fears that the couple would now face the “brutal theatre” of court process to “get
  
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• Austria stabbing attack suspect is Syrian migrant who pledged allegiance to Islamic State, officials say

  16-02-2025 17:19 via foxnews.com
  
  Austrian authorities said Sunday that the suspect who they believe fatally stabbed a 14-year-old boy and wounded five others in the village of Villach is a Syrian refugee who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. At a press conference, Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said the 23-year-old Syrian national was arrested seven minutes after Saturday's attack unfolded in the village of just about 60,000 people bordering Italy and Slovenia. "This is an Islamist attack with an IS
  
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• ‘The US is ready to hand Russia a win’: newspapers on Europe’s Trump shock

  16-02-2025 17:05 via theguardian.com
  
  European papers express deep alarm at declaration of an ‘ideological war’, while the NYT says Putin may soon ‘realise his dream’This year’s Munich security conference exposed the chasm in core values separating the Trump administration from most Europeans and sparked deep alarm at US efforts to control the Ukraine peace process and exclude European governments from it.Here is what some of the main European and US newspapers had to say about it. Continue reading...
  
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• I signed up for disaster training in LA. I had no idea I’d need it so soon

  16-02-2025 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Four months ago, I took an emergency response course. Then the wildfires came, and I realised, in an era of disasters, how vital trained neighbors areKelley McIntosh is the kind of person who gives her friends fire extinguishers as housewarming gifts. In other words, my kind of person: as a climate journalist who’s spent eight years reporting on adaptations critical to life in our burning, storming, fevered world, I’ve been known to gift-wrap prepper items, too. Loved ones have sighe
  
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• John Major accuses US of ‘cuddling’ up to Putin and condemns JD Vance’s Munich speech – as it happened

  16-02-2025 16:46 via theguardian.com
  
  The former UK prime minister says democracy in Europe and across the globe is ‘under threat’. This live blog is closed‘We can’t just be supine’: UK Liberal Democrat leader urges Starmer to stand up to ‘bully’ TrumpFrance’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot has warned against “over-dramatising” the meeting between European leaders in Paris on Monday.France is due to host the summit of European leaders to discuss the Ukraine war and Europ
  
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• President Trump urged to confront Iranian regime over repression of Christians

  16-02-2025 16:42 via foxnews.com
  
  Iran is reported to have launched a new crackdown against Iranian Christians this month following the re-arrest of two men.According to a Feb. 10 report on the website of the U.K.-based NGO Article18, which seeks to protect religious freedom in Iran, "Two Christians in their 60s who were released after a combined six years in prison on charges related to their leadership of house-churches have been re-arrested."Iranian regime intelligence agents re-arrested the two Christians, Nasser Navard Gol-
  
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• South Korean actress Kim Sae-ron, 24, found dead

  16-02-2025 16:17 via bbc.com
  
  Kim began her career as a child actor and was seen as one of the country's most promising actresses.
  
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• Zelenskyy says Russia will ‘wage war on Nato’ if US support for Ukraine wanes

  16-02-2025 16:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Ukrainian president tells NBC’s Meet the Press that Putin’s next targets may be Poland and LithuaniaVolodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday predicted Russia would “wage war against Nato” if the US stepped back from its support of Ukraine – and that he had seen intelligence suggesting that the Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin, was building up troops for a possible military invasion of another European country.The Ukrainian president made the claim on the NBC show Meet the Pres
  
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• John Major: Trump’s US isolationism threatens global democracy

  16-02-2025 15:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Former UK prime minister says US may regret ceding world stage to China and condemns ‘hypocritical’ JD Vance speechDemocracy around the globe is under threat from the retreat of Donald Trump’s US into isolationism and its likely replacement by China on the world stage, John Major has said.The former UK prime minister, who rarely offers direct opinion on contemporary politics, used an interview with BBC Radio 4 to say Trump’s administration was unlike anything he had seen
  
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• FBI assisting UK investigation into Southport killer Axel Rudakubana

  16-02-2025 15:48 via theguardian.com
  
  US Department of Justice also involved in what are thought to be efforts to recover deleted internet search historyThe FBI and the US Department of Justice have joined the investigation into the Southport killer, Axel Rudakubana, and are reported to be helping UK police recover his deleted internet search history.Rudakubana, 18, was jailed for a minimum of 52 years in January for murdering three young girls and attempting to murder eight others in a knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance cl
  
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• Five charged with trans man’s murder in New York after ‘repeated acts of torture’

  16-02-2025 15:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Police in upstate New York say Sam Nordquist, 24, who was from Minnestoa, endured weeks of tortureFive people in New York have been charged with subjecting a transgender man from Minnesota to “repeated acts of violence and torture” before murdering him, according to police.The allegations come after the discovery of human remains believed to be those of Sam Nordquist, 24, in a field near Canandaigua in upstate New York on 13 February. Continue reading...
  
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• Manhunt continues after Valentine's Day shooting

  16-02-2025 15:30 via bbc.com
  
  Police say they are "not ruling out the possibility" that the suspect may have entered the Thames.
  
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• Reporter's Notebook: Ukrainian spiritual leader says Russian Orthodox Church extension of Kremlin

  16-02-2025 15:19 via foxnews.com
  
  As President Donald Trump's administration works toward a diplomatic end to the war in Ukraine, the leaders of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) are warning that Vladimir Putin's Russia believes it's actually fighting a "holy war" against the West.A delegation from the OCU was in the United States recently for the International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington, D.C. The group was led by His Beatitude Metropolitan Epiphany, leader of Kyiv and all of Ukraine.His translator spoke to Fox Ne
  
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• ‘We live in constant fear’: Alawites in Syria’s Homs terrified of reprisals

  16-02-2025 15:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Diverse city has grown tense since fall of Assad regime, as security forces target groups loyal to the former dictatorOutside the deserted Homs political security directorate building, a group of freshly recruited armed guards were engaged in a heated debate about justice. Sado Junaid, whose sister and brother-in-law were detained and tortured in the squat facility’s underground prison, sided with Mahmoud al-Bashar, who as they spoke sometimes held the black coil of wire and a black-and-wh
  
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• Climate 200 to help bankroll candidates in four Labor seats at federal election

  16-02-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: After supporting 23 candidates in 2022, including six successful teal independents, fundraising body to support 35 campaigns in this year’s ballotGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastClimate 200 will help bankroll independent candidates in four Labor seats – including one held by a cabinet minister – among 35 campaigns it will back at the federal election.The fundraising vehicle’s final list of target electorates confirms it will support f
  
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• Netanyahu says Israel working closely with US on Trump’s plan for Gaza

  16-02-2025 14:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Israeli PM and US secretary of state express joint support for ‘bold vision’ that would force 2 million people to leaveBenjamin Netanyahu has said his government is working closely with the US to implement Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza, which involves US ownership of the coastal strip, the removal of more than 2 million Palestinians and the redevelopment of the occupied territory as a resort.The Israeli prime minister was speaking after a meeting in Jerusalem with the US secreta
  
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• Austria attack that killed teen linked to IS, officials say

  16-02-2025 14:47 via bbc.com
  
  A 14-year-old boy was killed and five others were wounded in the attackin Villach.
  
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• Secretary of State Rubio meets with Netanyahu over ceasefire

  16-02-2025 14:34 via today.com
  Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the ongoing ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Their meeting comes just one day after three more hostages were released by Hamas.
  
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