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The right-wing Asfura, representing the National Party, edged out Salvador Nasralla of the centre-right Liberal Party with 40.27 percent of the vote to Nasralla's 39.53 percent. Today, with deep gratitude, I accept the honour of being able to work for you. I extend my hand so we can walk together with determination to work tirelessly for Honduras. I will not fail you, Asfura said in a video statement released on Wednesday night.

The US President's original 28-point peace plan, which was accepted by the Kremlin, had called for a "neutral, demilitarized buffer zone" to be established once Ukrainian troops withdraw from the Donbas region and the Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts, in preparation for Kyiv to cede territory.

Donald Trump has said Volodymyr Zelenskyy isn't ready to sign off on a US-authored peace proposal aimed at ending the war between Russia and Ukraine, at the end of three days of talks between Washington and Kyiv in Florida. I'm a little bit disappointed that President Zelenskyy hasn't yet read the proposal, that was as of a few hours ago. His people love it, but he hasn't, Trump claimed as he spoke with reporters on Sunday night.

US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that Kazakhstan was joining the Abraham Accords. "Kazakhstan is the first country of my second term to join the Abraham Accords, the first of many," Trump posted on his Truth Social platform. In 2020, Trump brokered the Abraham Accords — a series of agreements to normalize relations between Israel and Muslim-majority nations. Kazakhstan's move is largely symbolic as the country already has full diplomatic relations and economic ties with Israel. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is currently in Washington for talks with Trump.

Biden hammered out the first deal toward an armistice on Nov. 23 of that year, just a month and a half after the war began. It called for a four-day ceasefire, the release of 50 Israeli hostages and 50 Palestinian prisoners, and the release of 10 more with each day's extension of the truce. Biden's hope was that the incentive would lead to the freeing of all hostages and a permanent peace.

A US president, after months of tacit encouragement, has finally intervened to end an Israeli military offensive that has reduced swaths of a Middle Eastern city to rubble, leaving thousands dead and prompting global outrage. For months, the UN has looked on, impotent, as Israeli air raids and artillery shelling has pummelled apartment blocks and refugee camps beside the Mediterranean.