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Hamas to free 6 more Israeli hostages from Gaza Strip …

Relatives and friends of Omer Wenkert, 23, gather to watch the TV broadcast of his release by Palestinian militants in Gaza, in Herzliya, Israel, Saturday Feb. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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After years of firm support, 10 days upended the US approach …

U.S. Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg, right, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy talk during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Pope Francis isn’t out of danger but his condition isn’t …

A cameraman scans a marble statue of late Pope John Paul II outside the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome where Pope Francis is being treated for pneumonia, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Thousands rally in Slovakia to mark the 2018 slayings …

People gather in Bratislava, Slovakia on Friday Feb. 21, 2025, to mark the seventh anniversary of the slayings of an investigative journalist and his fiancee, Jan Kuciak and Martina Kusnirova. Banner reads: "Martina and Jan: We will never forget". (Vaclav Salek/CTK via AP)

An encroaching desert threatens to swallow Mauritania’s …

A dead palm tree trunk sits submerged in sand in Chinguetti, Mauritania on Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Khaled Moulay)

Sinn Féin leaders won’t attend St. Patrick’s event at …

FILE - President Clinton greets Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams, right, as Social Democratic Labor Party leader John Hume stands at left, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 17, 2000. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Vance criticizes Germany’s free speech laws in remarks …

Vice President JD Vance, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2025, at the National Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Md., Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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Rwanda expresses solidarity with military general …

M23 rebels have claimed another town in eastern Congo. (AP Digital Embed)

Macron’s message to Trump: ‘You can’t be weak in …

France's President Emmanuel Macron waits for Romania's Interim President Ilie Boloja, before a meeting on European security, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, at the Elysee Palace in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Pakistan security forces kill 6 militants in a raid …

European troops, US support are part of an emerging …

FILE - Ukrainian infantrymen train with French soldiers to learn combat skills, in France, on Nov. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, File)

Trump’s attempts to denigrate Zelenskyy have led …

In this photo provided by the Kherson Regional Military Administration on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, a building is seen heavily damaged by a Russian strike in Kherson, Ukraine. (Kherson Regional Military Administration via AP)

China issued ‘disconcerting’ warning of live-fire …

In this photo provided by the Australian Defense Force, the HMAS (His Majesty's Australian Ship) Arunta, left, shadows the People's Liberation Army-Navy Jiangkai-class frigate Hengyang and a Fuchi-class replenishment vessel in the Tasman Sea, on Feb. 13, 2025. (Australian Defense Force via AP)

UK foreign secretary questions Russia’s ‘appetite’ …

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrives at the opening session of the G20 foreign ministers meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)