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The Palestinian militant movement Hamas is expected to release four female Israeli soldiers on Saturday in exchange for a group of Palestinian prisoners under a ceasefire agreement aimed at ending the 15-month-old war in Gaza.

A fire engulfed a hotel at a ski resort in northwestern Turkey on Tuesday, killing at least 76 people and injuring at least 51 more, the interior minister said. Witnesses said desperate guests had tried to escape using ropes, and video showed bedsheets hanging from the windows.

Donald Trump vowed a new US "golden age" as he took the oath for a historic second presidential term Monday, January 20, but focused most of his dark inaugural speech on touting hardline policies to reverse what he called "American decline."

The auto-rickshaw driver, Bhajan Singh Rana, who drove an injured Saif Ali Khan from his Bandra apartment to Lilavati Hospital said that when the Bollywood actor boarded his vehicle, he was "soaked in blood". The actor was clad in a white kurta and pyjama, the auto-rickshaw driver added.

Nepal has qualified for the semi-finals in both the men's and women's Kho Kho World Cup which is taking place in New Delhi, India.

Sri Lanka earned approximately 3.17 billion U.S. dollars from tourism in 2024, latest statistics from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) shows.

Donald Trump on Friday became the first felon in the White House after a US court upheld his conviction in a hush money case. He has been sentenced to an 'unconditional discharge' for covering up unaccounted payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.

The known death toll in the fires that are ravaging Los Angeles County this week rose to 11 on Friday, the Los Angeles Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed, as firefighters struggling against high winds all week were given a reprieve on the fourth day of seemingly unstoppable blazes that have d...

Chinese seismologists have registered 515 aftershocks in the disaster zone in the Tibet Autonomous Region, which occurred in the last 24 hours after the main, most destructive earthquake, China Central Television reported.

The blast is suspected to have occurred during the mixing of chemicals, flattening the factory and killing six.