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A handout picture provided by the office of the Kurdistan Democratic Party leader on Feb. 16, 2025, shows KDP chief Masoud Barzani (center-right) meeting with co-leader of the People's Democratic Party Pervin Buldan (center-left), joined by other delegation members in Irbil.

FILE - The Deepseek logo is seen in this illustration taken Jan. 27, 2025.

FILE - Aslam Longton (bottom right) and amil Longton (bottom left) are seen at Kenya National Human Rights Commission in Nairobi, Feb. 2, 2025. (Credit: Kenya National Human Rights Commission) FILE - Police on horses surround protesters during protests against abductions in Nairobi, Dec. 30, 2024.

President Donald Trump arrived in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday afternoon and held a press gaggle where he briefly discussed a potential peace deal with Ukraine and Russia.

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels are reportedly occupying Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the second major city in the country's mineral-rich east to fall under their control.

Israel's prime minister vowed to "open the gates of hell" if Hamas does not return all its hostages and praised President Trump's "bold vision for Gaza's future."

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to “finish the job” against Iran with the support of US President Donald Trump.

Leila Soueif, who has been on hunger strike seeking the release of her son Alaa Abdel Fattah from prison in Egypt, stands outside Downing Street in London, Feb. 5, 2025.

Ukrainian service members of the 68th Jaeger Brigade named after Oleksa Dovbush load a rocket into a BM-21 Grad multiple launch system at their position near the frontline town of Pokrovsk, in Donetsk region, Feb. 14, 2025.

Irish jockey Michael O'Sullivan died on Sunday after suffering injuries in a fall during a race earlier this month, the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board said. He was 24.

European leaders felt certain about one thing after a whirlwind tour by Trump officials — they were entering a new world where it was harder to depend on the United States.

A senior Ukrainian Orthodox Church official recently warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin thinks the Kremlin is in a 'holy war' with the West.

A hockey match between rivals the United States and Canada descended into chaos from the moment the puck was dropped as three fights broke out in the first nine seconds.

Candles mark the site of a stabbing attack in Villach, Austria, Feb. 16, 2025.

A visitor tries out installations set up with a series of sound-producing devices and mechanisms at an exhibition entitled 'Iran's Sound Scene' in Tehran, Iran, on Feb. 4, 2025. A visitor tries out an installation set up with a series of sound-producing devices and mechanisms at an exhibition entitled 'Iran's Sound Scene' in Tehran, Iran, on Feb. 4, 2025.

People walk past an independence square in Bukavu, eastern Congo, Feb. 15, 2025.

President Trump’s approach to foreign policy deals is reviving a bygone imperial approach that may backfire, experts say.

Passengers are pictured at India's New Delhi railway station on Feb. 16, 2025.

Malcolm Weale, a detectorist who found the item displays an early medieval silver penny of Guthrum of East Anglia, the first silver coin minted by a Viking ruler in Britain, at the British Museum's annual treasure launch in London, Feb. 11, 2025.

FILE - Hippos are known to be territorial and aggressive at times. This photo provided by Craig Manders shows his wife, Lisa, in Zambia in mid-2024. Lisa Manders was killed in a hippopotamus attack during this trip while on a safari with her husband and died on June 5.

Tires burn as supporters of Lebanese Shiite Islamist movement Hezbollah stand before Lebanese Army soldiers during a Hezbollah-organized rally to block the road to Beirut International Airport over a decision to bar two Iranian flights from landing there, Feb. 15, 2025.

President Volodymyr Zelensky publicly faulted the American offer, which is tied to continued aid, because it did not include security guarantees.

FILE - In this Dec. 23, 2021, file photo, Pope Francis, left, shakes hands with Sister Raffaella Petrini at the Vatican. On Saturday, she was named president of the Vatican City State.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio boards a plane to the Munich Security Conference in Germany from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Feb. 13, 2025.

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Student protesters in Iran called out officials at the University of Tehran for a second day on Saturday following the murder of a business student on campus.

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Three Israeli hostages were handed over to the Red Cross in Gaza by Palestinian militants on Saturday, in the sixth exchange of hostages and Palestinian prisoners under the ceasefire deal that came into effect last month.

Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk have challenged decades-long approaches to political extremism that were designed to prevent another Hitler.

FILE - Sebastian Gorka, left, speaks during a press conference outside Manhattan criminal court on May 21, 2024, in New York. Gorka, now a senior U.S. counterterrorism official, said on Feb. 11, 2025, that the threat from jihadists is growing.

Pope Francis is hospitalized with a respiratory tract infection at Rome's Gemelli Hospital, shown here on Feb. 15, 2025.

Top-ranked tennis player Jannik Sinner accepted a three-month ban in a settlement with the World Anti-Doping Agency and said Saturday the agreement ends a case that was "hanging over me" since his two positive doping tests nearly a year ago.

Pope Francis slept well during a first night in the hospital after being admitted with a respiratory tract infection, the Vatican said Saturday.

American-Israeli hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen embraced his wife on Saturday after being apart from her for nearly 500 days.

A screen displays Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as he speaks during the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Feb. 15, 2025.

Israel's United Nations ambassador dismisses Palestinian plan for Gaza in an exclusive statement to Fox News Digital.

Firefighters extinguish a burning UNIFIL vehicle, set ablaze by protesters, on the road leading to Beirut's international airport on Feb. 14, 2025.

American-Israeli Sagui Dekel-Chen, 36, was among three hostages released by Hamas on Saturday morning after being held in captivity in Gaza for almost a year and half. The other two hostages handed over to Red Cross personnel in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis were Israelis Sasha Troufanov, 29, and Iair Horn, 46.

In return, Israel is expected to free hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. The exchange would extend a fragile cease-fire that appeared on the brink of collapse earlier this week.

FILE - A USAID flag flutters outside as the USAID building sits closed to employees after a memo was issued freezing funding, in Washington, Feb. 3, 2025.

A new series released on Amazon, YouTube nd Google TV uncovers the little-known details about the team of women who tasked to special forces during the War on Terror and helped change the course of U.S. history.

FILE - Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown speaks during a plenary session at the COP29 UN Climate Summit, Nov. 13, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan.

A view of a selection of the mummified bodies in the exhibition area of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. (Emma Paolin via AP) Emma Paolin, a researcher at University of Ljubljana, background, and Dr. Cecilia Bembibre, lecturer at University College London, take swab samples for microbiological analysis at the Krakow University of Economics. (Abdelrazek Elnaggar via AP)

FILE - Myanmar's military commander in chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, attends a military exercise at Ayeyarwady delta region in Myanmar, Feb. 3, 2018. FILE - Aung San Suu Kyi, then Myanmar's leader, delivers a speech in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, Jan. 28, 2020.

FILE - Kurdish-led fighters backed by the U.S. escort suspected Islamic State militants in Hasakah, Syria, Jan. 26, 2022.

Hitmen gunned down an Ecuadoran air force colonel Friday in a city hard hit by drug crime that has turned the once-peaceful South American country into one of the most violent, authorities said.

Israel has announced the names of the three hostages set to be released Saturday, in what would be the sixth exchange of hostages and Palestinian prisoners under the ceasefire deal that came into effect last month.

Vice President JD Vance scolded an audience in Munich, saying Europe was failing to uphold democratic values. He said nothing about President Trump’s talks with Russia to end the war in Ukraine, which have stirred anxiety on the continent.

The 24-year-old Afghan suspected of carrying out the Munich car attack appears to have been motivated by Islamic extremism, prosecutors revealed Friday.