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Hamas released three Israeli hostages on Saturday in the sixth swap underpinning a fragile truce that came close to collapse this week. JD Vance vented at European leaders Friday, telling them that the biggest threat to their security was “from within,” rather than China and Russia. The Trump White House says it will bar AP from future events in the Oval Office and Air Force One. 

U.S. Vice-President JD Vance says Moscow could face potential military action if Putin fails to agree a peace deal that guarantee's Kyiv's long-term independence. Ukraine says a Russia drone attack hits Chernobyl nuclear plant. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Gaza ceasefire will end if Hamas does not release Israeli hostages on Saturday. Marc Fogel, an American history teacher who was deemed wrongfully detained by Russia, has been released and returned to the U.S. in what the White House described as a diplomatic thaw that could advance negotiations to end the war in Ukraine

Russian officials believe western pressure is hampering Moscow’s efforts to draw former Soviet nations closer into its orbit and build economic ties with the global south. Donald Trump said if Hamas did not release all the remaining Israeli hostages by noon Saturday, the cease-fire agreement with Israel should be canceled and “all hell is going to break out.”

Donald Trump said he will slap  a 25% import tax on all steel and aluminium entering the US, a move that will have the biggest impact in Canada. Billionaire Elon Musk is bringing his unorthodox methods to Washington, where they are clashing with the traditionally staid and steady federal workforce.

North Korea is expected to start producing drones this year that will be co-developed with Russia. Donald Trump’s nominee to be FBI director, was paid $25,000 last year by a film company owned by a Russian national who also holds U.S. citizenship. Spring break in Miami Beach downs local businesses 

Hamas has freed three Israeli hostages in Gaza, while Israel released 183 Palestinian prisoners. WFP ordered by Washington to stop work on dozens of U.S.-funded grants. Emerging evidence suggests Donald Trump’s bent towards expansionism has to do with minerals.

Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle USAID has left American workers in limbo and threatens billions of dollars the agency spends on American businesses and organizations. Israeli forces and settlers have increased the use of extreme physical violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since the all-out war on Gaza, MSF says

Gazans were defiant over any attempt to relocate them from the enclave, saying Donald Trump's plans to take control and redevelop the territory were “fantasies” bound to fail. Meanwhile a White House seemingly in permanent chaos tried to walk back some of Trump’s plans for the enclave

Beijing has said it will impose retaliatory tariffs on a raft of US products. Meanwhile, Mexican and Canadian leaders each said that following a phone call with Donald Trump, the U.S. has agreed to put planned tariffs on hold for a month. 

Donald Trump says the US will "definitely" impose trade tariffs on the EU. He has said so while acknowledging what experts and allies have been saying all along: Americans may find themselves paying the costs of his punishing tariffs.

A barrage of Russian missiles strike Odesa and Poltava, Ukraine. U.S. officials announced that they had closed a helicopter flight path along the Potomac River in Washington. Hamas hands over three Israeli hostages as part of the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas

The air traffic control tower at Reagan National Airport was understaffed on Wednesday evening when a passenger plane and a military helicopter collided in midair, according to a government report. China’s military is building a massive complex in western Beijing that US intelligence believes will serve as a wartime command centre far larger than the Pentagon