The Israeli government approved a ceasefire deal that could bring an end to the 15 months of war in Gaza. It's slated to go into effect Sunday morning.

Hamas releases four female Israeli soldiers held captive for more than 15 months. As part of the ceasefire deal, Israel is releasing some 200 Palestinians.

President Trump has issued a 90-day pause of U.S. foreign aid. There are big questions about what this could mean for health and development projects all over the world.

The White House budget office has ordered a pause in grants, loans and other federal financial assistance, according to a memo sent to government agencies on Monday, potentially paralyzing a vast swath of programs and sowing confusion and alarm among the array of groups that depend on them.

PATIENT CONFIDENTIALITY: City Hall sought to clarify the mayor’s health status Monday evening after sparking a torrent of speculation throughout the day with a late-night post about Eric Adams’ wellbeing.

President Trump said he told King Abdullah II of Jordan during a phone call Saturday that he would like Jordan and Egypt to take in more Palestinians from Gaza, an idea that is likely to reignite debate about the future of nearly two million Palestinians.

The Coalition’s new foreign affairs spokesman, David Coleman, has declared the United Nations has “immense room for improvement”, signalling a Dutton government would push for reforms to the international body he claimed had failed to deliver outcomes in the Middle East conflict.

New opposition foreign affairs spokesman David Coleman says a Coalition government would argue for a two-state solution for the Palestinian and Israeli people, not the plan put forward by Donald Trump.

The Australian understands 39-year-old Simon Lance Nichols was arrested on January 2 by ­Organised Crime Squad officers over eight allegedly stolen vehicles that were said to have been fixed with cloned plates, with officers allegedly discovering jerry cans with fuel inside some, unrelated to the caravan incident.

The King has said the testimony of Holocaust survivors teaches us to “never be a bystander in the face of violence and hate” as he met those who lived through one of humanity’s darkest hours, 80 years on from the liberation of Auschwitz.

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The reshuffle featured the creation of a “government efficiency” portfolio dedicated to gutting social spending and the promotion into foreign affairs posts of two vehement defenders of Israel‘s genocide.