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Red Cross says it's started 'a multi-phase operation' to oversee hostage and prisoner releases as part of Gaza ceasefire

1:04 AM on Monday, October 13

Red Cross says it's started 'a multi-phase operation' to oversee hostage and prisoner releases as part of Gaza ceasefire

The Israeli military says Red Cross is on its way to collect several hostages held by Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip

12:50 AM on Monday, October 13

The Israeli military says Red Cross is on its way to collect several hostages held by Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip

Hamas publishes a list of over 1,900 Palestinian prisoners it says will be released in Israel-Hamas war ceasefire

12:35 AM on Monday, October 13

Hamas publishes a list of over 1,900 Palestinian prisoners it says will be released in Israel-Hamas war ceasefire

Hamas publishes list of 20 living hostages it will release as part of Israel-Hamas war ceasefire

12:13 AM on Monday, October 13

Hamas publishes list of 20 living hostages it will release as part of Israel-Hamas war ceasefire

Congregants stand outside Maple Valley Baptist Church in McEwen, Tenn., Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025, about 3 miles from Accurate Energetic Systems, an explosives plant where a blast Friday killed 16 people. (AP Photo/Obed Lamy)

Community near site of deadly Tennessee plant blast recalls the lives of the 16 killed

4:52 PM on Sunday, October 12

Churches near the site of a devasting blast at a rural Tennessee plant devoted Sunday services to the 16 victims and their families as surrounding communities mourn

Palestinians walk among destroyed buildings in Gaza City, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025, after Israel and Hamas agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israel expects hostages to be freed from Gaza 'in a few hours' as ceasefire holds

4:36 AM on Sunday, October 12

Israel says it expects all of the 20 living hostages held in the Gaza Strip to be released Monday in its breakthrough ceasefire deal with Hamas

Tal Hartuv, who survived an attack by Palestinian militants armed with machetes in 2010, poses for a photo at her home in Zikhron Ya'akov, northern Israel, March 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

For some Israelis, saving hostages held in Gaza means freeing militants who killed their loved ones

12:08 AM on Sunday, October 12

Survivors and family members of Palestinian attacks in Israel have faced a wrenching dilemma throughout the war

A displaced Palestinian man carries his belongings as he walks past destroyed buildings in the heavily damaged Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025, after Israel and Hamas agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Many unresolved questions remain as a ceasefire holds in Gaza

2:42 PM on Saturday, October 11

A ceasefire is holding in Gaza between Israel and Hamas after two years of war

Life Guard Squadron Leader Major Tom Stewart says goodbye to Household Cavalry horse Quaker as he begins his retirement at The Horse Trust sanctuary, Thursday , Oct. 9, 2025, in Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, England. (Jonathan Brady/PA via AP)

British army horse that galloped through London after being spooked gets well-deserved retirement

12:53 PM on Saturday, October 11

One of the five British Cavalry horses that made headlines when they broke away from their trainers and galloped thorough the streets of London last year has been retired to the country without ever returning to active service

Displaced Palestinians ride donkey carts loaded with belongings past destroyed buildings in Gaza City, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025, after Israel and Hamas agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Drone footage above Gaza City shows the toll of 2 years of war

10:59 AM on Saturday, October 11

New drone footage shows what remains of Gaza City after two years of war as a ceasefire holds in its second day

FILE -In this photo taken Aug. 4, 2018, pastor Jin Minri leads a class on the basics of Christian beliefs at the Zion Church in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan), File)

Zion Church pastor has been detained in China, his daughter and a religion monitoring group say

8:46 AM on Saturday, October 11

Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri of the Zion Church has been detained in China, according to his daughter and a monitoring group

Holding up signs with images depicting the U.S. President Donald Trump people take part in a rally in support of hostages kidnapped by Hamas, at a plaza known as hostages square, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025, ahead of the expected release of the hostages held in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Palestinians return to ruins and US expects hostages freed on Monday as Gaza ceasefire holds

7:53 AM on Saturday, October 11

Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians are returning to neighborhoods in Gaza as a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is in its second day

UN will begin delivering scaled-up humanitarian aid into Gaza on Sunday as ceasefire takes effect, UN official says

11:29 AM on Friday, October 10

UN will begin delivering scaled-up humanitarian aid into Gaza on Sunday as ceasefire takes effect, UN official says

In this image taken from video provided by VTM, a police officer stands behind a cordon during an investigation in Antwerp, Belgium, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. (VTM via AP)

Dutch far-right politician Wilders fears he may have been a target of Belgian attack plotters

10:38 AM on Friday, October 10

Dutch far right politician Geert Wilders says he’s suspending campaigning for national elections later this month amid reports that he was a possible target of a suspected plot in Belgium to kill politicians using a drone carrying explosives

FILE - Members of the Jewish community comfort each other near to the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue, in Crumpsall, Manchester, England, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025 after Police reported that two people were killed and three others were seriously injured in a synagogue attack in northern England. (Peter Byrne/PA via AP, File)

Fear and vigilance rise as attacks on houses of worship intensify worldwide

7:06 AM on Friday, October 10

Statistically, attending a weekly worship service is a remarkably safe thing to do

Displaced Palestinians walk along the coastal road near Wadi Gaza in the central Gaza Strip, moving toward northern Gaza, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Yousef Al Zanoun)

The Latest: Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza return north as ceasefire takes effect

6:36 AM on Friday, October 10

Tens of thousands of Palestinians are starting to walk north to return to their homes after the Israeli military said the ceasefire agreement with Hamas came into effect at noon local time and that troops were withdrawing to the agreed-upon deployment lines

Police personnel take cover behind shields to save themselves from stones thrown by supporters of Islamist party 'Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan' during clashes ahead of their pro-Palestinian march toward capital Islamabad, in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Violence erupts in eastern Pakistan as Islamists try to march on capital for pro-Palestinian rally

6:08 AM on Friday, October 10

Pakistani officials say violent clashes have erupted between police and Islamists in the eastern city of Lahore

An elderly displaced Palestinian woman carries an item past destroyed buildings in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining hostages. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Thousands of Palestinians return to what's left of their homes as Gaza ceasefire takes effect

5:31 AM on Friday, October 10

Tens of thousands of Palestinians headed back to the heavily destroyed northern Gaza Strip as a U.S.-brokered ceasefire came into effect on Friday

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, Loyola Chicago's beloved chaplain, dies at 106

12:19 AM on Friday, October 10

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the beloved chaplain for Loyola Chicago's men's basketball team, has died at 106

Fadwa al-Ghalban holds a cellphone showing a photo of her son, Mosaab, at her tent in Muwasi, along Gaza's southern coast, Oct. 3, 2025. She has had no word from him since July, when his cousins last saw him near their house as an Israeli strike destroyed it in the southern town of Maan. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Thousands in Gaza are missing 2 years into the war. Tormented families search for clues

12:04 AM on Tuesday, October 7

Two years since the war in Gaza began, thousands of Palestinians there are looking for relatives who have gone missing in one of the most destructive conflicts of the past decades

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