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When word reached the White House on Friday afternoon that Hamas had, after nearly five days, responded to President Donald Trump’s 20-point proposal to end the war in Gaza, officials were so quick to embrace the group’s statement they posted it in full on social media, at one point mistakenly attributing it to Trump himself. Hamas’ response stopped well short of …

US President Donald Trump said Friday he believed Hamas was ready for “lasting peace” and told Israel to stop bombing Gaza, after the Palestinian militant group declared it was ready to free hostages under his ceasefire plan. Trump’s statement marked the first time since his return to power in January that he has explicitly called on key US ally Israel …

Former Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila has been sentenced to death in absentia for war crimes and treason. The charges concern accusations that Kabila has been supporting the M23, a rebel group who have wreaked devastation across the country’s eastern region. Joseph Kabila returned to DR Congo in May after a period of self-imposed exile Kabila was convicted …

The funding crisis that resulted in the United States (US) government shutdown deepened on Friday as senators voted for a fourth time to reject a funding fix proposed by President Donald Trump’s Republicans. The Senate’s failure to agree on the government funding is set to stretch the shutdown into next week as federal agencies have been out of money since …

“Machines don’t see gender; they see your strength,” says Surekha Yadav, who has been driving India’s trains for over three decades. Earlier this week, Ms Yadav bade farewell to her job after 36 years of service, retiring as India’s first female train driver. Surekha Yadav joined the Indian Railways as an assistant train driver in 1989 Over the years, she …

U.S. District Court Judge Arun Subramanian sentenced Sean Combs to 50 months behind bars. Prosecutors had sought an 11-year, three-month prison term for his Mann Act conviction, while the defense was aiming for a 14-month sentence, which would have amounted to time served. Combs, 55, was taken into custody in September last year so he’ll have more than a year of credit …

Sean “Diddy” Combs will be sentenced Friday for his conviction on two prostitution-related counts, crimes prosecutors say deserve more than a decade behind bars as the music mogul seeks “mercy” and a swift release. Following two months of often searing testimony and arguments in the New York federal case, jurors in July rejected the most serious charges of sex trafficking …

Mediators have made contact with the head of Hamas’s military wing in Gaza, who has indicated he does not agree to the new US ceasefire plan, the BBC understands. Israel has pressed on with its offensive in Gaza City since President Trump unveiled his peace plan Izz al-Din al-Haddad is thought to believe the plan was designed to finish Hamas, …

Dozens of activists, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, have been detained by Israeli forces after a flotilla carrying aid bound for Gaza was intercepted. Israel’s Foreign Ministry said several vessels from the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) had been “safely stopped” and those aboard were being transferred to an Israeli port to be deported. The boats intercepted were in international …

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government was thrown into a shutdown Wednesday with no easy endgame in sight, as Democrats held firm to their demands to salvage health care subsidies that President Donald Trump and Republican in Congress have dismissed as something to possibly discuss later. The White House threatened mass layoffs of federal workers, rather than simply the normal furloughs, in a matter of days, seizing …