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(NEW YORK) — The end of the cease-fire came after Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that governs Gaza, freed over 100 of the more than 200 people its militants took hostage during the Oct. 7 surprise attack on southern Israel. In exchange, Israel released more than 200 Palestinians from Israeli prisons. Here’s how the news […]

(NEW YORK) — More than a month after a temporary truce between Israel and Hamas ended, the Israeli military continues its bombardment of the neighboring Gaza Strip. The end of the cease-fire came after Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that governs Gaza, freed over 100 of the more than 200 people its militants took hostage […]

KeithBinns/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A U.S. fighter aircraft shot down a missile fired toward an American warship from a Houthi-controlled area of Yemen, U.S. military officials said. The USS Laboon was fired on in the Southern Red Sea at about 4:45 p.m. on Sunday, U.S. Central Command said on social media. “The missile was shot […]

ABC News All of the Ecuador prison guards and administrative employees who were being held by inmates were released, the country’s prison agency said Saturday night. As nationwide civil unrest unfolded in Ecuador, a total of 178 employees were taken hostage on Monday in at least five different prisons, according to the SNAI prisons agency. […]

North Korea launched a suspected ballistic missile on Sunday afternoon, Japan and South Korea said. The launch appeared to have been a shorter-range ballistic missile than those recently tested based on its flight time, Japan’s Defense Ministry said. South Korean officials said the missile was launched from the Pyongyang area into the East Sea just […]

While the Israeli army has gradually reduced the number of troops it has in northern Gaza, many residents and relief organizations said that part of the region had been largely isolated from humanitarian aid and is in dire need of help. “People are absolutely desperate,” United Nations Relief and Works Agency Director of Communications Juliette […]

Hours after a volcanic fissure opened north of an evacuated town in Iceland, a second fissure opened “just outside” the residential area, the Icelandic Meteorological Office said Sunday. The first fissure cracked open at about 8 a.m., releasing a slow-moving river of lava that inched south toward Grindavík for hours. The lava seemed to split […]

(NEW YORK) — More than a month after a temporary truce between Israel and Hamas ended, the Israeli military continues its bombardment of the neighboring Gaza Strip. The end of the cease-fire came after Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that governs Gaza, freed over 100 of the more than 200 people its militants took hostage […]

(YEMEN) — The U.S. launched another retaliatory strike against Houthi militants in Yemen on Friday following Thursday’s large-scale airstrikes, according to U.S. Central Command. The airstrike targeted a Houthi radar site and was a direct response to the launch earlier in the day of an anti-ship fired at a ship in the Gulf of Aden […]

shaunl/Getty Images (SOMALIA) — Two U.S. Navy SEALs are missing off the coast of Somalia after having fallen into the water during a nighttime boarding mission on Thursday, according to two U.S. officials. The officials said that the SEALs had fallen into the water one after the other during the boarding of a vessel by […]