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Israel is a place where Jews are meant to be safe, and if these people didn't come home, then what is the point of Israel?

As world leaders arrived in Egypt on Monday to celebrate the first stage of the Gaza ceasefire deal and discuss the next steps, there was a curious note of disharmony between the US and the UK. Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, had appeared on the BBC on Sunday talking about the UK's key role in shaping the agreement only to be slapped down on X by the US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, who called her delusional.

India on Friday announced that it was reopening its embassy in Kabul, four years after it was shut following the 2021 return of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. The announcement was made by Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar during a bilateral meeting with his Afghan counterpart Amir Khan Muttaqi. "I am pleased to announce today the upgrading of India's Technical Mission in Kabul to the status of Embassy of India," Jaishankar said.

President Donald Trump announced a deal that aims to bring an end to the brutal war between Israel and Hamas. If it holds, brokering the agreement that leads to a lasting cease-fire and the return of all Israeli hostages could be one of the biggest accomplishments of his presidency. On the surface, this certainly sounds like the kind of thing that could win a president the Nobel Peace Prize. And as it happens, the 2025 prize will be announced on Friday.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva asked U.S. President Donald Trump during a phone conversation Monday to lift the 40% tariff imposed by the U.S. government on Brazilian imports. The leaders spoke for 30 minutes, exchanged phone numbers, and Lula reiterated his invitation for Trump to attend the upcoming climate summit in Belem, according to a statement from Lula's office.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has asked US President Donald Trump to remove tariffs on Brazilian goods and lift sanctions on Brazilian officials during a phone call, according to the presidential office in Brasilia.

President Trump hailed an apparent reduction in Israeli military strikes on Gaza, as U.S. negotiators travel to Cairo to meet with Egyptian, Qatari and Hamas negotiators in a bid to end the two-year conflict. In a social media post on Saturday, Trump urged Hamas to "move quickly" to take advantage of the latest respite in Israel's combat operations, insisting he would "not tolerate delay" from the group, and warning that, absent a swift agreement, "all bets will be off."

South Africa's ambassador to France, formerly a long-serving cabinet minister, was found dead on Tuesday outside a Paris hotel after the window of his room in the high rise building was forced open, prosecutors said. Nkosinathi Emmanuel Nathi Mthethwa, 58, usually known as Nathi Mthethwa, had "reserved a room on the 22nd floor whose secured window had been forced open," the office of the Paris prosecutor told AFP.

As Israeli representatives sat beside the Irish delegation in the vast hall of the UN General Assembly yesterday, Taoiseach Micheál Martin told leaders that Ireland would prevent members of the Israeli government from entering Ireland.

But Trump delivered a long and humiliating rant, filled with personal grievances and attacks on the UN, European leaders, migration policies and clean energy. Trump set a low bar with his often rambling and incoherent campaign speeches, but it was still an embarrassing performance for the US president on the global stage. In his past appearances before the general assembly, Trump generally stuck to his prepared remarks and did not hector US allies sitting in the audience. But this was Trump unfiltered and unleashed as

It is seen on village greens and in Test arenas alike. It is there at the start of the game, just after the coin toss, and it is there at the end when the final run is struck or wicket falls. According to research from the University of Dundee it should last between one-and-a-half and three seconds, just long enough to reassure both participants, but not so long as to feel overbearing.

During his nearly hour-long speech, he framed immigration and "green renewable energy" as destroyers of much of the free world. Speaking on foreign policy, he called for an end to the war in Ukraine - a campaign pledge he said he thought would be easy because of his relationship with Putin - and a ceasefire in Gaza. Trump also warned of the dangers of Iran possessing a nuclear weapon.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Thursday said that the US immigration raid on a Hyundai factory was "bewildering" and could have adverse effects on future South Korean investments in the US. The raid was the largest single-site anti-immigration operation conducted since US President Donald Trump cracked down on immigration, a top political priority since he returned to office in January.

I am pleased to announce that India, and the United States of America, are continuing negotiations to address the Trade Barriers between our two Nations,

I'm not happy, I'm not happy, he said when asked if he was becoming less trustful of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin. I'm not happy about the whole situation. Trump's remarks came hours after Russia launched what is said to be its largest attack on Ukraine since the conflict began, as peace talks between the nations falter. Four people were killed, and a key government building in Kyiv was damaged in the Russian strike, the Associated Press reported.

So they'll never admit that. The White House is never going to say that. But yes, we are well past the two weeks from that Alaska Summit, and there has not been any movement toward a bilat between Zelenskyy and Putin, let alone a trilat. Now, President Trump is supposed to go to Europe in the next two weeks and there is some hope by some advisers to the president President Trump that there could be some activity before that or maybe right after that.

The rift stemmed from former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's allegations that Indian agents were involved in the assassination of Sikh leader and activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Nijjar was shot dead by two masked assailants as he left a Sikh temple in the Canadian province of British Columbia in 2023Image: Darryl Dyck/ZUMA Press/IMAGO According to media reports, Nijjar was a prominent organizer in the Sikh community in Canada.

We are so delighted to be able to share that Gena, and all those taken with her, have been released following their kidnapping on 3 August, 2025, from the St Helene property in Kenscoff, Haiti.

American and European officials thought they had a real opportunity to end the war in Ukraine. President Donald Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, flew to Moscow to meet with Vladimir Putin believing that a breakthrough was possible. Trump welcomed the Russian president to America, rolling out a literal red carpet. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rushed to Washington with European leaders, some of whom even sounded optimistic. Trump "broke the deadlock" with Putin, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said at the White House. "If we play this well, we could end this."

The intensely close but complex relationship between Britain and Ireland is one that a British ambassador to Ireland observed in a 1977 dispatch: the British "take the Irish for granted, whereas (the Irish) are obsessed with us. We don't remember the past and they cannot forget it." If we think a lot about that relationship, one might think that there would be no need for a book like Philip Stephens's These Divided Isles. Too often we don't think deeply about our relationship with Britain.

Finnish president Alexander Stubb has been speaking at a press conference before the country's ambassadors' conference in Helsinki. In comments reported by the Finnish public broadcaster, Yle, he said that he hoped Trump's patience with Putin would run out soon. He insisted that Finland and other European countries will do everything we can do achieve lasting peace. He also hinted that the only way to force Putin to end the invasion of Ukraine would be by hitting his allies,