. Kyiv has pressed for a longer-term ceasefire.

Women in traditional Spanish garb gather before a bullfight in Aguascalientes, Mexico, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)Mexican bullfighter Diego Silveti gestures to fans in the bullring after a bullfight in Aguascalientes, Mexico, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the remains of 51 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes in the past 24 hours, the local Health Ministry said Sunday, bringing the Palestinian death toll from the 18-month-old, and has been carrying out daily waves of strikes. Ground forces have expanded a buffer zone and encircled the southern city of Rafah, and now control

Israel has also sealed off Gaza’s 2 million Palestinians from all imports, including food and medicine,

. Aid groups say supplies will soon run out and that thousands of children are malnourished.BEIRUT (AP) — As an al-Qaida fighter in Iraq, he was detained by the American military. As the leader of a U.S.-designated terror group fighting in Syria’s civil war, he had a $10 million bounty on his head.

As the leader of a fast-changing Syria, Ahmad al-Sharaa, who later described him as a “young, attractive guy” with a “very strong past.”

The handshake, at a meeting orchestrated by the leaders of Saudi Arabia and Turkey, captured al-Sharaa’s long journey from hardened jihadi to the leader of a country that is gradually shedding its pariah status as it cements ties with America’s top allies in the Middle East.Trump said he would lift crippling sanctions that were imposed on the government of deposed Syrian President Bashar Assad,