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Activist Greta Thunberg answers reporters as she arrives from Israel at Charles de Gaulle airport, north of Paris, Tuesday, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Israel deports Greta Thunberg after Gaza-bound ship she was on was seized

Israel has deported activist Greta Thunberg a day after Israel’s military seized the Gaza-bound ship she was on. Thunberg spoke in Paris on Tuesday and described a “quite chaotic and uncertain” situation during the detention.
 
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man shouts during a protest against army recruitment in Bnei Brak, Israel, Thursday, June 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Netanyahu’s government could collapse over Israel’s ultra-Orthodox military draft law

 
Palestinians carry bags containing food and humanitarian aid packages delivered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organization, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, June 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Palestinians say Israel and its allies fired on a crowd near Gaza aid site. Hospital says 14 killed

 
The Gaza-bound aid boat, Madleen, under escort of Israeli naval forces enters to Ashdod Port in southern Israel after being seized by Israeli forces, Monday, June 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Gaza-bound aid boat with Greta Thunberg on board arrives in Israel after its seizure

 
Iranian Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib attends the inauguration ceremony of the 6th term of the Assembly of Experts in Tehran, Iran, May 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran claims without evidence that it took Israeli nuclear files

 

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Israeli operations continue in southern Gaza while the humanitarian situation remains critical

Explosions sent plumes of smoke into the air on Monday as Israeli operations continued in southern Gaza. The humanitarian situation in the enclave remains critical. (AP video shot by Mohammad Jahjouh)
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Manual Aslim walks through the rubble of her destroyed home, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, days after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas came into effect. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israel’s top general resigns over Oct. 7 failures, adding to pressure on Netanyahu

 
Members of the Abu Sheiban family salvage what they can of their belongings from under rubble of their destroyed home, days after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Palestinians confront a landscape of destruction in Gaza’s ‘ghost towns’

 
Greenpeace activists show a poster during a protest at the Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

As Davos 2025 reacts to Trump tack, EU chief leads defense against climate change

 
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a nominee for Secretary of State, attends the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP)

Senate confirms Marco Rubio as secretary of state, giving Trump the first member of his Cabinet

 
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a nominee for Secretary of State, attends the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP)

A wave of Trump-demanded departures hits the State Department

 
Fighters from the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, control the crowd as Red Cross vehicles manoeuvre to collect Israeli hostages to be released under a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Abed Hajjar)

After 15 months of war, Hamas still rules over what remains of Gaza

 
This undated photo provided by the Hostages Family Forum shows Sagui Dekel Chen, who was abducted and brought to Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. (Hostages Family Forum via AP)

Who are the hostages freed by Hamas as part of the ceasefire in Gaza?

 
Displaced Palestinians leave parts of Khan Younis as they go back to their homes in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Palestinians trek across rubble to return to their homes as Gaza ceasefire takes hold

 
Itamar Ben-Gvir, the minister of national security in Benjamin Netanyahu's new government, attends a weekly cabinet meeting on Jan. 3, 2023, in Jerusalem. (Atef Safadi/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Who is Itamar Ben-Gvir, the far-right minister who resigned from Netanyahu’s Cabinet?

 

Israel says it recovered the body of a soldier killed in 2014 hours before Gaza ceasefire

 
Khalida Jarrar, 62, a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, is greeted after disembarking from a bus following her release from an Israeli prison, in the West Bank city of Beitunia, early Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

As ceasefire takes hold, Hamas returns 3 Israeli hostages and Israel frees 90 Palestinian prisoners

 
This photo provided by the Israeli Government Press Office, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, convened his security Cabinet to vote on a ceasefire deal after confirming an agreement had been reached that would pause the 15-month war with Hamas in Gaza, in Jerusalem, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. (Koby Gideon/Israeli Government Press Office via AP)

What to know about the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas

 

Netanyahu says Israel has retained ‘right to return to fighting if needed’ in Gaza

 
President-elect Donald Trump, standing with Melania and Barron Trump, waves as they board an Air Force Special Mission airplane at Palm Beach International Airport Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025 in West Palm Beach, Fla., en route to Washington. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Trump’s family circle has a different look as he returns to the White House

 
This is a locator map for Iran with its capital, Tehran. (AP Photo)

Gunman shoots dead 2 judges in Iran’s capital tied to 1988 mass executions

 

Sirens sound in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem after projectiles launched from Yemen

 
Balloons are released to mark the second birthday of hostage Kfir Bibas as demonstrators hold portraits of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip during a protest calling for their immediate release in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday Jan. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Ceasefire between Israel and Hamas will go into effect Sunday morning, officials say

 

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An Ultra-orthodox Jewish man walks past graffiti portraits of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, in Jerusalem, on Monday, Jan. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)

Israel prepares for hostages’ return with scant knowledge of their condition

 

Blinken tells AP there’s ‘no guarantee’ Trump follows through on Biden administration efforts in Middle East and Ukraine

 
Secretary of State Antony Blinken bids farewell to diplomats and staff at the State Department in Washington, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Blinken tells AP he’s worried Trump administration may abandon key Biden foreign policy initiatives

 

Demonstrators in Afghanistan welcome announcement of Gaza ceasefire

 
Cyprus' deputy Minister of Migration and International Protection Nicholas Ioannides, right, and the EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner shake hands before their meeting at the Deputy Ministry of Migration and International Protection in capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

More than 1,000 Syrians have withdrawn asylum applications in Cyprus, another 500 have returned home

 
On this photo o released by the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, left, and Syria's de facto leader Ahmad al-Sharaa talk during their meeting at the International Criminal Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. (International Criminal Court via AP)

International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor meets with Syrian leader in Damascus

 

Israeli security cabinet recommends approving ceasefire deal

 
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during a Department of Defense Commander in Chief farewell ceremony at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Austin, the first Black defense secretary, ends his term marred by Afghanistan but buoyed by Ukraine

 
This photo provided by the Israeli Government Press Office, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, convened his security Cabinet to vote on a ceasefire deal after confirming an agreement had been reached that would pause the 15-month war with Hamas in Gaza, in Jerusalem, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. (Koby Gideon/Israeli Government Press Office via AP)

Israel’s Cabinet approves a deal for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of dozens of hostages

 
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian attend a signing ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. (Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool Photo via AP)

Russia and Iran sign a partnership treaty to deepen their ties in the face of Western sanctions

 
French President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he speaks with journalists after his meeting with Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, right, upon his arrival at Beirut's Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

France’s Macron expresses support for new leadership in Lebanon as it recovers from crisis

 

Huge blasts seen over the Gaza skyline from southern Israel

 
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