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Hamas releases 3 frail-looking Israeli captives for Palestinian detainees under Gaza ceasefire


DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Hamas-led militants launched three gaunt, frail-looking Israeli captives and Israel released almost 200 Palestinian detainees Saturday in the newest exchange of a ceasefire that has stopped briefly 16 months of war in Gaza.


The hostages ´ condition and scenes of Hamas requiring them to speak in a handover ceremony sparked outrage in Israel and might increase pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to extend the ceasefire beyond its current six-week phase.


Netanyahu has indicated he would resume the war, even if that means leaving lots of captives in captivity. "President Trump entirely concurred with me: We will do everything to return all the captives, but Hamas will not be there," Netanyahu said after the exchange.


Civilians Eli Sharabi, 52; Ohad Ben Ami, 56; and Or Levy, 34, were amongst about 250 people taken throughout the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, that stimulated the war.


Israelis' happiness turned to shock and tears when they saw their emaciated state.


Released Thai hostages return to Bangkok after being held for over a year in Gaza


BANGKOK (AP) - Five Thai workers released after being imprisoned for over a year in Gaza got here in Bangkok on Sunday.


Sarusak Rumnao, 32, photorum.eclat-mauve.fr Watchara Sriaoun, 33, Sathian Suwannakham, 35, Pongsak Thaenna, 36, and Bannawat Saethao, 27, were freed on Jan. 30 as part of an exchange plan.


They were welcomed by member of the family, some of whom wept, in the arrivals hall at Suvarnabhumi airport. Thai Foreign Minister Maris Sagniampongsa and the Israeli Ambassador to Thailand Orna Sagiv were both at the airport to invite home the released captives.


"We are all really grateful and very delighted that we get to return to our homeland. All of us would really like to thank you. I put on ´ t understand what else to state," Pongsak told a press conference at the airport.


Maris said the Thai government "never ever offered up hope and here is the result today. The tears of joy are our encouragement." He included that Bangkok would continue working to secure the release of the remaining Thai captive.


Trump says some white South Africans are oppressed, might be resettled in the US. They say no thanks


CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - Groups representing a few of South Africa's white minority reacted Saturday to a plan by President Donald Trump to offer them refugee status and resettlement in the United States by saying: thanks, however no thanks.


The strategy was detailed in an executive order Trump signed Friday that stopped all aid and monetary support to South Africa as penalty for what the Trump administration said were "rights infractions" by the government against a few of its white citizens.


The Trump administration implicated the South African government of allowing violent attacks on white Afrikaner farmers and presenting a land expropriation law that allows it to "take ethnic minority Afrikaners' agricultural residential or commercial property without compensation."


The South African government has actually rejected there are any collective attacks on white farmers and has actually said that Trump's description of the colony law has lots of misinformation and distortions.


Afrikaners are come down from mainly Dutch, but likewise French and German colonial inhabitants who initially showed up in South Africa more than 300 years ago. They speak Afrikaans, a language obtained from Dutch that developed in South Africa, and are distinct from other white South Africans who originate from British or other backgrounds.


Trump's 3rd week saw more executive orders, a trade war that wasn't and a Mideast jolt


WASHINGTON (AP) - Three weeks in, President Donald Trump keeps cranking out executive orders developed to remake the federal government while billionaire Elon Musk hunts for more ways to upend the federal labor force.


Trump also provoked - then cancelled - trade wars with Canada and Mexico however allowed one with China to progress. He apparently played down possibly tough political concerns while insisting he was severe about the United States seizing Gaza, emptying out its homeowners and redeveloping the area into "the Riviera of the Middle East." It was a concept that friend and enemy alike around the world declined.


Here are some Week 3 takeaways:


Trump has actually spent 20 days in office, and on almost each of them, he has signed executive orders - typically a number of.


Similar To Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden before him, Trump used Inauguration Day to put pen to paper on actions suggested to eliminate great deals of his predecessor's policies. Trump also issued Day 1 orders to pardon most members of the mob that attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, withdraw the U.S. from the Paris environment accord and keep TikTok operating.


31 thought Maoist rebels and 2 policemans are killed in forest combat in main India


PATNA, India (AP) - At least 31 believed Maoist rebels and 2 police officials were killed on Sunday in the most dangerous combat up until now this year in main India, police said.


Numerous police and paramilitary soldiers introduced an operation in the forests of the Indravati location of Chhattisgarh state based on intelligence that large number of rebels had gathered there, said state authorities Inspector General Pattilingam Sundarraj.


Sundarraj said as the troops performed a search operation battling emerged in the forest, eliminating at least 31 insurgents and 2 police authorities. Two other police were hurt. He said search operations were continuing in the location and the soldiers had recuperated some arms and ammunition, consisting of automated rifles.


There was no immediate statement from the rebels.


Sunday's fighting is the greatest up until now this year and the second significant clash in less than a month in Chhattisgarh, according to cops officer Jitendra Yadav.


2 mass graves with bodies of nearly 50 migrants found in southeastern Libya


CAIRO (AP) - Libya authorities discovered nearly 50 bodies this week from 2 mass graves in the country ´ s southeastern desert, officials said Sunday, in the newest catastrophe including people seeking to reach Europe through the chaos-stricken North African nation.


The very first mass tomb with 19 bodies was discovered Friday in a farm in the southeastern city of Kufra, the security directorate said in a statement, including that authorities took them for autopsy.


Authorities posted images on its Facebook page showing law enforcement officer and medics digging in the sand and recuperating dead bodies that were wrapped in blankets.


The al-Abreen charity, which helps migrants in eastern and southern Libya, said that some were obviously shot and eliminated before being buried in the mass grave.


A separate mass tomb with a minimum of 30 bodies was likewise found in Kufra after raiding a human trafficking center, according to Mohamed al-Fadeil, head of the security chamber in Kufra. Survivors said almost 70 individuals were buried in the grave, he included. Authorities were still browsing the area.


Rescuers hunt for 28 individuals still missing after a landslide in southwest China; 1 body recuperated


BEIJING (AP) - Emergency teams in China's southwestern Sichuan province battled against time Sunday to locate 28 individuals missing after a rain-triggered landslide eliminated a single person and bybio.co buried homes.


Nearly 1,000 personnel, of armed cops, firemens and doctor, continued to work in the rescue operation following the landslide in the village of Jinping in Junlian county on Saturday. Some officers navigated through the remains of collapsed buildings, utilizing drones and life-detection radars to find any signs of life with the aid of regional authorities who recognized with the area, state broadcaster CCTV said.


They rescued 2 hurt individuals and left about 360 other people after 10 homes and a production structure were buried, CCTV reported.


At a news conference Sunday, authorities said preliminary assessments associated the catastrophe to current heavy rainfall and local geological conditions. They said these factors changed a landslide into a particles circulation, leading to an accumulation of particles extending about 1.2 kilometers (more than half a mile) in length, with an overall volume surpassing 100,000 cubic meters (3.5 million cubic feet).


Chinese Vice Premier Liu Guozhong was at the website to direct the rescue operation and checked out the impacted citizens. He prompted authorities to strive to browse for the missing people, according to main news company Xinhua.


Kosovo elect new parliament as foreign aid dwindles and talks with Serbia are stalled


PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) - Kosovars cast their votes Sunday in a parliamentary election considered an essential test for Prime Minister Albin Kurti as talks on stabilizing ties with competing Serbia remain stalled and foreign funding for among Europe's poorest nations in concern.


Kurti ´ s left-wing Vetevendosje!, or Self-Determination Movement Party, is viewed as the front-runner but is not anticipated to win the essential bulk to govern alone, leaving open the possibility the other two contenders join ranks if he fails to form a Cabinet.


The other oppositions are the Democratic Party of Kosovo, or PDK, whose main leaders are detained at a worldwide criminal tribunal at The Hague accused of war criminal activities, and the Democratic League of Kosovo, or LDK, the oldest celebration in the country that lost much of its assistance after the death in 2006 of its leader, Ibrahim Rugova.


The parties made big-ticket promises to increase public wages and pensions, enhance education and health services, and battle poverty. However, they did not explain where the cash would come from, nor how they would bring in more foreign investment.


Kurti has actually been at chances with Western powers after his Cabinet took numerous actions that raised tensions with Serbia and ethnic Serbs, including the ban on the use of the Serbian currency and dinar transfers from Serbia to Kosovo ´ s ethnic Serb minority that depends on Belgrade ´ s social services and payments. The U.S., the European Union and the NATO-led stabilization force KFOR have urged the federal government in Pristina to refrain from unilateral actions, fearing the revival of inter-ethnic dispute.


Here's what we know about a commuter airplane crash in Alaska that eliminated 10 people


JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Authorities are working to recuperate the wreckage of an airplane crash in western Alaska that eliminated 10 individuals while detectives are attempting to identify what triggered the little commuter aircraft to decrease in the icy Bering Sea.


The single-engine turboprop airplane was taking a trip from Unalakleet to the center neighborhood of Nome when it disappeared Thursday afternoon. The Bering Air airplane was discovered the next day after a substantial search. Nine guests and the pilot were killed.


Crews on Saturday was successful in recovering the remains of those killed in the crash from a wandering ice floe before the awaited onset of high winds and snow.


Here are things to learn about the airplane crash, which is among the deadliest airplane crashes in the state in 25 years.


Officials said contact with the Cessna Caravan was lost less than an hour after it left Unalakleet on Thursday. Authorities said the flight was a frequently scheduled commuter journey, and the aircraft went missing out on about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southeast of Nome.


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Trump's AI aspiration and China's DeepSeek overshadow an AI top in Paris


PARIS (AP) - The geopolitics of expert system will remain in focus at a major summit in France where world leaders, executives and professionals will work out pledges on directing the advancement of the quickly advancing technology.


It's the most current in a series of worldwide discussions around AI governance, but one that comes at a fresh inflection point as China's buzzy and budget-friendly DeepSeek chatbot shakes up the market.


U.S. Vice President JD Vance - making his first journey abroad considering that taking workplace - will go to the Paris AI Action Summit beginning Feb. 10, while China's President Xi Jinping will be sending his special envoy, signaling high stakes for the meeting.


Here's a breakdown:


Heads of state and top federal government authorities, tech managers and researchers are gathering in Paris for the two-day top cohosted by French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The occasion aims to resolve how to harness synthetic intelligence ´ s potential so that it benefits everyone, while containing the innovation ´ s myriad threats.