Teams from the Palestinian militant group Hamas and mediator Qatar arrived in the Egyptian capital on Saturday for further talks on a ceasefire and hostage release deal with Israel, sources at the Cairo airport said. Both teams arrived aboard a flight from Qatar, they added. Egypt's state-affiliated broadcaster al-Qahera News also reported the arrival of a Hamas delegation in Cairo and cited "significant progress" in negotiations to reach the deal. The broadcaster, citing what it termed as a hig
President Volodymyr Zelensky offered words of encouragement and unity to Ukrainians as the country marked its third Easter at war on Sunday. God is on Ukraine's side, Zelensky said, and "with an ally like that, life will definitely triumph over death." He also called for people to be united in a "common prayer" for the Ukrainian soldiers who will once again have to spend an Easter in the trenches at the war's front line. In Ukraine, as in Russia, many Orthodox Christians do not celebrate Easter
Teams from the Palestinian militant group Hamas and mediator Qatar arrived in the Egyptian capital on Saturday for further talks on a ceasefire and hostage release deal with Israel, sources at the Cairo airport said. Both teams arrived aboard a flight from Qatar, they added. Egypt's state-affiliated television al-Qahera News also reported the arrival of a Hamas delegation in Cairo and cited "significant progress" in negotiations to reach the deal. The broadcaster, citing what it termed as a high
Five Palestinians were killed and a police officer injured in an anti-terrorist operation by Israeli security forces in the West Bank on Saturday. During a twelve-hour operation north of the town of Turkam, soldiers and police surrounded a house in which suspected members of a terrorist cell were staying, according to a police spokesman. After shots were fired from the building, the security forces returned fire with various weapons systems. The building was also attacked twice by an Israeli dro
Pope Francis has warned against the excessive commercialization of art and the destructive impact of the market on creativity during a speech to artists at the Venice Art Biennale. "Certainly, the market promotes and canonizes, but there is always the risk that it 'vampirizes' creativity, robs innocence and ends up deciding coldly what is to be done," the leader of the Catholic Church said in a speech on Sunday. "Today it is more necessary than ever to make a clear distinction between art and th