Author: Olive Metuge

Israel has received via the Red Cross in Gaza two coffins which the Palestinian armed group Hamas says contain the bodies of deceased hostages, according to the Israeli prime minister’s office.Israeli forces will now transfer the bodies to Israel’s National Centre of Forensic Medicine for identification.Hamas’s armed wing announced earlier that it had recovered the bodies of Israeli hostages Amiram Cooper and Sahar Baruch.On Tuesday, the Israeli government accused Hamas of violating the Gaza ceasefire deal after the group handed over a coffin containing human remains that did not belong to one of the 13 deceased Israeli and foreign hostages…

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he had agreed with President Xi Jinping to trim tariffs on China in exchange for Beijing cracking down on the illicit fentanyl trade, resuming U.S. soybean purchases and keeping rare earths exports flowing.Trump’s face-to-face talks with Xi in the South Korean city of Busan, their first since 2019, marked the finale of the U.S. president’s whirlwind Asia trip on which he also touted trade breakthroughs with South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian nations.”I thought it was an amazing meeting,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One shortly after he departed Busan, ranking the talks a “12 out of 10.”Trump said tariffs imposed on Chinese imports would be…

In Rico v. United States, the Supreme Court will consider whether the fugitive-tolling doctrine – the legal principle that a criminal defendant should not receive credit toward his sentence for time spent as a fugitive – applies when a defendant absconds from (that is, flees from or evades) supervised release, thereby preventing the term of supervision from expiring while the defendant is on the lam. Although fugitive status can be evocative in popular culture, as illustrated by the FBI’s ten most wanted list launched in March 1950, the circumstances of fugitives from supervised release tend to revolve around the sad, gritty facts of…

Here’s your chance to take a long break and turn the last UAE public holiday of 2025 into a nine-day escapeEid Al Etihad is the final UAE public holiday of the year, and with a little planning, you can combine it with weekends and annual leave to enjoy an extended break. Whether you want to relax at home or travel, now is the perfect time to make the most of your remaining days off of 2025.When is Eid Al Etihad 2025The official dates haven’t been announced yet, but the holiday is expected to fall in the middle of the week.…

The Trump administration is making it more difficult for veterans with a rare but deadly cancer to get their health care needs covered by the government. The new policy, involving breast cancer in men, is laid out in a Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica. The previously undisclosed document does not cite any evolving science. Rather, it relies on an order that President Donald Trump issued on his first day in office titled: “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” An agency spokesperson confirmed the change. “As of Sept. 30, the…

Paul Kirby,Europe digital editor and Anna Holligan,Hague correspondent in LeidenEPARob Jetten, 38, led a highly polished campaign and outperformed his rivals in TV debatesRob Jetten’s centrist-liberal party D66 are in a neck-and-neck race with anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders in the Dutch election, according to latest vote projections.With more than 90% of votes counted, both D66 and Wilders’ Freedom Party were heading for 26 seats in the 150-member parliament, a projection from Dutch news agency ANP said early on Thursday.Initial exit polls had put Jetten in the lead. “Millions of Dutch people have turned a page; they’ve said goodbye to a…

U.S. President Donald Trump, ahead of his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, said he has instructed the Department of Defence to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons on an “equal basis” with other nuclear powers, something the U.S. has not done in 33 years.”Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately,” Trump said on his social media platform, Truth Social, ahead of the meeting with Xi in South Korea.”Russia is second, and China is a distant third, but…

The Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon asked the litigants in the challenge to President Donald Trump’s effort to deploy the National Guard to Illinois to file supplemental briefs addressing the interpretation of the law on which Trump relied in his Oct. 4 memorandum calling up the National Guard. Trump cited efforts “to disrupt the faithful enforcement of Federal law” by “violent groups” that “have sought to impede the deportation and removal of criminal aliens through violent demonstrations, intimidation, and sabotage of Federal operations.” Based on his determination that “the regular forces of the United States are not sufficient to ensure the laws of the…

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Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground across Oklahoma. It has bubbled up near homes and a school — and it has killed farmers’ crops and ranchers’ calves. These incidents, sometimes called “purges,” have also contaminated the private water wells of people in rural areas.  Over the years, some Oklahoma residents have made complaints. But they haven’t always found an easy solution.  A rancher in northeastern Oklahoma told us he’s complained for years about wells leaking oil. The state plugged one well, which he said shot salt water and oil 40 feet in the air, but…