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Former US Sen. Bob Menendez gets 11 years in prison for taking bribes and acting as agent of Egypt

Jan. 29, 2025 20:06 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez was sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in prison for accepting bribes of gold and cash and acting as an agent of Egypt — crimes his lawyer said he’s been mocked for as “Gold Bar Bob.” The judge delivered the sentence after Menendez...

Hamas will free 3 Israelis and 5 Thais in next hostage release Thursday

Jan. 29, 2025 15:13 PM EST

JERUSALEM (AP) — Hamas will release three Israelis, including two women and an 80-year-old man, as well as five Thai nationals during the next hostage release set for Thursday, Israel and Hamas said Wednesday as their tenuous ceasefire moves ahead. The Israeli women are Arbel...

Palestinians celebrate their return to northern Gaza after 15 months of war

Jan. 27, 2025 19:44 PM EST

WADI GAZA, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians streamed into Gaza’s most heavily destroyed area on Monday after Israel opened the north for the first time since the early weeks of the war with Hamas, a dramatic reversal of their exodus 15 months ago. As a...

Trump’s Palestinian refugee idea falls flat with Arab allies and confounds a Republican senator

Jan. 26, 2025 22:51 PM EST

DORAL, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s push to have Egypt and Jordan take in large numbers of Palestinian refugees from besieged Gaza fell flat with those countries' governments and left a key congressional ally in Washington perplexed on Sunday. Fighting that broke out in...

Trump wants Egypt and Jordan to take in Palestinians from Gaza. Here's why the idea is rejected

Jan. 26, 2025 19:26 PM EST

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — President Donald Trump's suggestion that Egypt and Jordan take in Palestinians from the war-ravaged Gaza Strip was met with a hard “no" Sunday from the two U.S. allies along with the Palestinians themselves, who fear Israel would never allow them to return. ...