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The group included several children, including a 4-year-old Israeli-American girl, and a Russian-Israeli who is the first man to be released.

Authentic cuisine. Authentic voice. Authentic self. Authenticity as artifice. Lookups for the word are routinely heavy on the dictionary company’s site but were boosted to new heights throughout the year.

Police Chief Jon Murad says a white man with a gun approached the trio, who were walking, and fired at least four rounds before fleeing. Murad says the shooting may have been a hate crime.

Hamas and Israel hint at extending their truce as more hostages are planned to be freed. Annual climate negotiations begin this week in Dubai. (Image credit: Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty Images)

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New Zealand has scrapped the world’s first generational smoking ban, a year after the country passed the legislation. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, who was sworn in on Monday, announced his decision to repeal the tobacco restrictions before they ever came

The former president’s chief rivals are running low on time to make a statement in Iowa’s caucuses, which could determine whether the Republicans’ nominating contest is seriously contested at all.

The entrepreneur visited a kibbutz attacked by Hamas together with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He will later meet the Israeli president and relatives of some Gaza hostages.

Israel and Hamas mediators work to draft a fresh list of hostages to be freed in the final hours of the four-day truce.

Over 400,000 people in Crimea were left without power on Monday, after hurricane force winds and heavy rains battered the Russian-annexed peninsula over the weekend. One local official said a man on the peninsula’s southern coast was killed, according to