Technical issue causes global flight disruption
29 Nov 2025
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Airbus has grounded thousands of its planes to fix a technical problem. Airlines are working to inst...
Hong Kong fire kills at least 128 people
28 Nov 2025
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The authorities in Hong Kong say fire alarms weren't working properly in the tower blocks where a bl...
National Guard member dies after shooting in Washington DC
28 Nov 2025
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President Trump says that one of the US National Guard soldiers who was shot on Wednesday in Washing...
Pope calls for peace on Turkey visit
27 Nov 2025
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Pope Leo has called for peace on the first day of his visit to Turkey, and urged Ankara to embrace t...
Dozens killed in Hong Kong fire
27 Nov 2025
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More than forty people have died and hundreds are missing after a fire engulfed high-rise apartment ...
Taiwan to boost defence spending
26 Nov 2025
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Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te says China is stepping up military preparations to take the island b...
Brazil's Bolsonaro begins jail term
26 Nov 2025
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The former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has been ordered to begin his 27 year prison sentenc...
Has the Ukraine conflict reached a turning point?
25 Nov 2025
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The Ukrainian authorities say Kyiv has reached a common understanding with the United States on the ...
Criminal cases against Trump critics dropped
25 Nov 2025
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A federal US judge has dismissed the criminal cases against the former FBI director James Comey and ...
Nigeria to recruit extra police officers after abductions
24 Nov 2025
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The Roman Catholic Church in Nigeria says 265 people are still missing after a mass kidnapping from ...
US hails 'tremendous' progress at Ukraine talks
24 Nov 2025
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The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has given an upbeat assessment of talks with Ukrainian offic...
The Global Story: The oil lobbyist who tried to sink the first big climate deal
23 Nov 2025
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The American lawyer, oil lobbyist and master strategist Don Pearlman is said to have chain-smoked hi...
COP30 deal fails to mention fossil fuels
23 Nov 2025
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The UN climate summit in Brazil has closed with a commitment to triple adaptation funding for develo...
The Happy Pod: Donating my kidney transformed a child's life
22 Nov 2025
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We hear about a rare meeting between a living organ donor and the child whose life was transformed b...
Marjorie Taylor Greene quits Congress after Trump feud
22 Nov 2025
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Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has said she's leaving office after clashing with President Don...
Russia warns Ukraine to reach deal or lose more territory
21 Nov 2025
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The US has handed Ukraine a draft peace plan which reportedly reflects many of Moscow's demands, lik...
Zelensky: Ukraine needs a 'dignified peace'
21 Nov 2025
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he will speak to Donald Trump in the coming days abo...
Ukraine's war children hoping for return to normality
20 Nov 2025
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As the US is reported to have drafted a deal with Russia on Ukraine, we look at the impact the war h...
White House to release Epstein files
20 Nov 2025
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President Trump has signed a bill that gives the US Justice Department thirty days to release its fi...
Deadly Russian strikes hit western Ukraine
19 Nov 2025
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Russian missile and drone strikes in western Ukraine have killed at least twenty-five people and inj...
US Congress votes to release Epstein files
19 Nov 2025
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Both houses of Congress in the US have passed a bill that aims to force the publication of files on ...
British MP's warned of 'relentless' China spying campaign
18 Nov 2025
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British politicians have been warned by the security services that they face a significant risk of e...
UN backs Trump's Gaza peace plan
18 Nov 2025
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The UN Security Council has approved a US-drafted resolution to move to the next stage of Donald Tru...
Ex-Bangladesh leader sentenced to death
17 Nov 2025
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Bangladesh's former prime minister Sheikh Hasina has been found guilty of crimes against humanity an...
Ecuadorian drug lord arrested
17 Nov 2025
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Ecuador's Los Lobos drug cartel leader, Wilmer "Pipo" Chavarria, has been captured in Spain. He'd be...
The Global Story; The hostage negotiator’s guide to making deals with Putin’s Russia
16 Nov 2025
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Donald Trump has spent this year trying to negotiate a deal to end the war in Ukraine. So far, Vladi...
Protests at COP30
16 Nov 2025
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Thousands of indigenous people and activists demonstrate against global warming in the Amazonian cit...
The Happy Pod: Saving a drowning man changed me
15 Nov 2025
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We speak to a woman who saved the life of a kayaker, after spotting him floating face down in Idaho'...
Trump to sue BBC for 'up to $5bn'
15 Nov 2025
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The US President has said he will begin legal action against the BBC within the next few days after ...
Russia hits Ukraine in deadly strikes
14 Nov 2025
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Russian drones and missiles hit an apartment block in eastern Kyiv, killing at least six people. Pre...
BBC refuses to pay Trump compensation
14 Nov 2025
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The BBC has sent a letter of apology to Donald Trump, saying it regrets the way a programme spliced ...
France remembers terror attacks ten years on
13 Nov 2025
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A series of events are being held in Paris to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the worst attacks...
US ends its longest-ever government shutdown
13 Nov 2025
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President Donald Trump said the country has "never been in better shape" as he signed a funding bill...
Trump 'spent time' with Epstein 'victim'
12 Nov 2025
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Democrats in the US Congress release three emails by the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein...
US-Venezuela: Trump's largest warship arrives in Latin America region
12 Nov 2025
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One of the world's most advanced aircraft carriers has arrived in the waters off Latin America as Pr...
Suicide bomber blamed for deadly attack in Islamabad
11 Nov 2025
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Pakistan's interior minister says a suicide attack has killed 12 people and injured many more near a...
Syria to join US-led coalition fighting IS group
11 Nov 2025
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The US says Syria is joining the international coalition to combat the Islamic State group, and Dama...
Donald Trump threatens to sue BBC
10 Nov 2025
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The BBC says it will respond in due course to a threat of legal action over a documentary which misr...
US Senate vote could end government shutdown
10 Nov 2025
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The longest-ever government shutdown in the United States looks to be coming to an end after a vote ...
The Global Story: The rehabilitation of Syria’s ex-jihadist president
09 Nov 2025
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After getting the red-carpet treatment at the UN in New York last week, the former al-Qaeda fighter ...
Water shortages could force evacuation of Iranian capital
09 Nov 2025
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Iran says water supplies in Tehran will suffer scheduled cuts, as the country struggles with severe ...
The Happy Pod: Atomic bomb survivors campaigning for peace
08 Nov 2025
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In this Happy Pod special we're in Munich, Germany for One Young World. We speak to survivors of the...
US exempts Hungary from Russian oil sanctions
08 Nov 2025
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President Trump grants Hungary a one-year exemption from US sanctions on Russian oil and gas purchas...
Sudan government demands international ceasefire guarantees
07 Nov 2025
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The Sudanese government calls for international guarantees that RSF rebels will stick by a ceasefire...
Elon Musk, the world's richest person, is set to be richer
07 Nov 2025
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Tesla shareholders have approved a record-breaking pay package that could make the electric car comp...
World leaders gather in Brazil for UN climate talks
06 Nov 2025
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The leaders of the three greatest producers of carbon emissions — the US, China and India — are ...
US to cut flights if government shutdown continues
06 Nov 2025
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The Federal Aviation Administration in the US has said that if the government shutdown continues, it...
US Democrats celebrate Mamdani victory
05 Nov 2025
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Zohran Mamdani is promising change and a template to defeat Donald Trump after winning the vote to b...
Zohran Mamdani wins New York mayoral race
05 Nov 2025
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Zohran Mamdani has won New York’s mayoral election after defeating former governor Andrew Cuomo an...
Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney dies
04 Nov 2025
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Dick Cheney, who became one of the most powerful vice presidents in US history as George W Bush's nu...
US government shutdown forces food aid cuts
04 Nov 2025
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The government shutdown in the United States is set to become the longest in the country's history a...
Tanzanian president sworn in after election unrest
03 Nov 2025
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Tanzania’s President, Samia Suluhu Hassan, begins her second term in office following hundreds of ...
Trump's military action threat alarms Nigeria
03 Nov 2025
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Donald Trump has suggested the US could deploy troops to Nigeria or carry out air strikes to stop wh...
Nine critically injured in mass UK train stabbing
02 Nov 2025
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In the UK, counter-terrorism police are leading an investigation into a mass stabbing on a train nea...
The Happy Pod: Soldiers' letters from 1916 finally home
01 Nov 2025
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Messages in a bottle from two Australian World War One soldiers have been found on a beach and are n...
Tanzania: Hundreds feared dead in post-election violence
01 Nov 2025
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Diplomats in Tanzania say there's credible evidence at least five-hundred people have been killed in...
Xi Jinping leads summit after Trump leaves
31 Oct 2025
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China's President, Xi Jinping, leads the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit in South Korea, w...
King strips Andrew of 'prince' title amid Epstein scandal
31 Oct 2025
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Britain's King Charles has begun the process of removing his younger brother's "prince" title and to...
UN condemns attack on key Sudanese city
30 Oct 2025
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The UN’s top humanitarian official has said there must be accountability for those carrying out th...
Trump and Xi meet to discuss trade war
30 Oct 2025
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Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have met for the first time since 2019 to discuss a possible truce in th...
Gaza: 104 reported dead in Israeli strikes
29 Oct 2025
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The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says a wave of Israeli airstrikes on Tuesday night killed more...
Israel strikes Gaza after accusing Hamas of ceasefire breach
29 Oct 2025
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Israeli strikes ordered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu kill at least 33 Palestinians in Gaza. ...
World's strongest storm of the year hits Jamaica
28 Oct 2025
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Hurricane Melissa, the world's strongest storm of the year, hits Jamaica, bringing catastrophic floo...
Jamaicans hunker down for Hurricane Melissa
28 Oct 2025
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World's strongest storm of 2025 expected to cause widespread damage in Jamaica. The Caribbean island...
Sudan's RSF rebels claim capture of El Fasher
27 Oct 2025
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Rebels from the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, in Sudan claim to have taken El Fasher, the strategica...
Face to face with IS prisoners in Syria
27 Oct 2025
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The BBC visits camps and a prison in north-eastern Syria where Islamic State fighters and their fami...
The Global Story: The Louvre daytime heist that shocked the world
26 Oct 2025
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The Louvre Museum in Paris was closed for 2 days as the police investigated a brazen heist which res...
President Trump oversees agreement between Thailand and Cambodia
26 Oct 2025
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President Trump attends ASEAN summit in Malaysia, and oversees an agreement between Thailand and Cam...
The Happy Pod: 'I'm blind but I can read a book again'
25 Oct 2025
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Doctors at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London have used microchips to help blind patients regain the ...
US deploys top aircraft carrier to Caribbean
25 Oct 2025
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Venezuela's president accuses the Trump administration of fabricating a war in sending a naval strik...
Trump ends Canada trade talks over anti-tariff advert
24 Oct 2025
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Donald Trump calls off trade talks with Canada over an anti-tariffs advert. Also: Kim Jong Un attend...
Trump pledges to 'kill people' in drug cartels
24 Oct 2025
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President Trump says declaration of war on drug cartels by Congress is not needed. Mr Trump said his...
King makes history by praying with Pope
23 Oct 2025
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King Charles becomes the first head of the Church of England to publicly pray with the Pope, five ce...
US puts sanctions on Russian oil giants over Ukraine war
23 Oct 2025
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The United States has imposed new sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Luk...
US Vice-President: We must disarm Hamas and rebuild Gaza
22 Oct 2025
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The US Vice-President JD Vance meets Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaa...
US shelves plan for Trump-Putin talks
22 Oct 2025
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President Trump has said he doesn't want a "wasted meeting" after plans for a summit on Ukraine with...
First female prime minister appointed in Japan
21 Oct 2025
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The Japanese parliament elects the new leader of the Liberal Party, Sanae Takaichi, as the country's...
Amazon glitch 'resolved' after massive outage
21 Oct 2025
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Amazon has resolved the technical glitch that brought down thousands of apps and websites and disrup...
Zelensky ready to join summit with Trump and Putin if invited
20 Oct 2025
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Long description (no character limit and should always end with the words below): Ukraine’s Presid...
Israeli air strikes test ceasefire with Hamas
20 Oct 2025
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President Trump says the ceasefire in Gaza is still in place after Israeli airstrikes killed more th...
The Global Story: A Gazan journalist’s diary
19 Oct 2025
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Reporting on the war in Gaza has only been possible because of the work of Palestinian journalists, ...
Nationwide protests against President Trump's policies
19 Oct 2025
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In the United States hundreds of thousands of people have taken part in nationwide demonstrations ag...
The Happy Pod: The healing power of singing
18 Oct 2025
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A singing group designed for women with post-natal depression has been shown to deliver long lasting...
Prince Andrew gives up royal titles
18 Oct 2025
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Britain's Prince Andrew is handing back his royal titles after new allegations emerged over his link...
Zelensky's crucial meeting with Trump in Washington
17 Oct 2025
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President Zelensky of Ukraine is in Washington ahead of crucial talks with Donald Trump. He's expect...
Trump says he'll meet Putin in Hungary for Ukraine talks
17 Oct 2025
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President Trump has said he expects to meet Vladimir Putin in Hungary "within two weeks" after holdi...
US downplays claims Hamas is violating ceasefire deal
16 Oct 2025
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The difficulty of recovering the dead bodies of Israeli hostages comes under the spotlight, as Washi...
Hamas requests help to retrieve the bodies of Israeli hostages
16 Oct 2025
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Israel's defence minister has called for a 'comprehensive plan' to defeat Hamas if it reneges on the...
Gazans 'stockpiling food' in case ceasefire breaks down
15 Oct 2025
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Palestinians in Gaza are reportedly stockpiling food amid anxiety the aid flow will stop, if the Isr...
Four more hostages' bodies returned to Israel
15 Oct 2025
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Israel says it has received four more bodies of dead hostages from Gaza as part of the latest ceasef...
Violence continues in Gaza despite peace deal
14 Oct 2025
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The day after President Trump signed off his peace plan in Egypt - what now for Gaza? Hospitals in t...
Uncertainty remains after Gaza deal
14 Oct 2025
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There is huge uncertainty over what happens next following the Gaza ceasefire deal. President Trump ...
Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners exchanged
13 Oct 2025
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More than two years after attacking Israel on October 7, 2023, Hamas has handed over the last 20 liv...
Relatives of Israeli hostages prepare for their release
13 Oct 2025
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Anticipation is growing in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv where families and friends of the remaining I...
The Global Story: Trump’s ‘CEO of everything’
12 Oct 2025
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The billionaire Larry Ellison could soon control huge portions of America’s AI, attention economy ...
Heavy clashes along Pakistan-Afghanistan border
12 Oct 2025
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Fierce fighting is taking place between the Pakistani army and Afghan Taliban forces at multiple poi...
The Happy Pod: Love, cake, and a long-lost mother
11 Oct 2025
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We hear how a man's search for his birth mother ended in an unexpected but familiar place - his favo...
Trump threatens additional 100% tariff on China
11 Oct 2025
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President Trump has said he will impose additional 100% import tariffs on Chinese goods by next mont...
Gazans return to ruined homes after ceasefire
10 Oct 2025
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Tens of thousands of Gazans make the long walk back to where they once lived after a ceasefire comes...
Israel approves Gaza ceasefire plan
10 Oct 2025
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Israel's government has agreed to the first phase of President Trump's plan to end the war in Gaza a...