Deal reached. Israel and Hamas agreed to a four-day cease-fire. According to various sources, Hamas will release 50 hostages it captured during its Oct. 7 attack on Israel, while Israel will release 150 Palestinian prisoners as part of the deal, which was brokered by Qatar, the U.S. and Egypt. Israel will also allow more fuel […]
Almost there. Israel and Hamas continue to progress toward a temporary cease-fire to allow the exchange of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. The Israeli...
Last week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Central Asia twice. He first went to Uzbekistan to attend a summit of the Economic Cooperation...
Someone else’s problem. Rebuffing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remark about an indefinite Israeli security presence in the Gaza Strip, the U.S. proposed that...
Discord. Ties between Turkey and Israel are deteriorating. On Wednesday, Turkey's energy minister said talks on energy-related projects with Israel would be conditioned on...
Reboot. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese held talks in Beijing on Monday in another sign of easing tensions between...
No more inspections. Russia will not resume inspections under the New START arms control treaty with the U.S. unless Washington stops supplying Ukraine with...
Turkic unity. The Organization of Turkic States is holding a leaders' summit in Kazakhstan. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev called on Turkic states to unite...
Economic update. Inflation in Germany fell to 3 percent in October, its lowest level since August 2021, according to the German statistics agency. Core...
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