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... is potentially a path forward. We have to see where it goes. But we can't do it while the American people are being held hostage by the Democrats in a government shutdown. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D) Minority Leader: We need a serious negotiation. Now, if the president at this ...
... s theocratic government. Later that year, university students overran the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, seeking the shah’s extradition and sparking the 444-day hostage crisis that saw diplomatic relations between Iran and the U.S. severed.During the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, the U.S. backed ...
Geoff Bennett: In an unprecedented move, the Israeli military today broadcast Netanyahu's U.N. speech into Gaza. Benjamin Netanyahu: I have surrounded Gaza with massive loudspeakers in the hope that our dear hostages will hear my message. Geoff Bennett: Meantime, in Gaza City today, the chaotic aftermath of another ...
Members of the Black Liberation Army, posing as visitors, stormed the Clinton Correctional Facility for women, took two guards hostage and commandeered a prison van to break Shakur out. She disappeared before eventually emerging in 1984 in Cuba, where Fidel Castro granted her asylum, according to the FBI. Offering Shakur ...
... The fallout from shootings in Minnesota The shootings at the Church of the Annunciation followed the assassination of the top House Democratic leader, Rep. Melissa Hortman, and her husband, and the shootings of a Democratic state senator and his wife who survived. Those recent attacks have made the issue personal ...
... Gaza City earlier this month. Trump aired his displeasure after Israel's strike on Hamas leaders in Qatar derailed negotiations aimed at a ceasefire and hostage release. But there was no daylight seen between the two allies when Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Israel days later. The administration has ...
... this week, nation after nation expressed horror at the 2023 attack by Hamas militants that killed about 1,200 people in Israel, saw 251 taken hostage and triggered the war. Many of the representatives went on to criticize the response by Israel and call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza ...
... for my campaign," he said. The court found that two of Sarkozy’s closest associates when he was president -- former ministers Claude Guéant and Brice Hortefeux — were guilty of criminal association, but likewise acquitted them of some other charges. The court sentenced Hortefeux to two years imprisonment, but said time ...
... said whether Israel or Hamas accepts it. The U.S., along with Egypt and Qatar, have spent months trying to broker a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release. Those efforts suffered a major setback earlier this month when Israel carried out an airstrike targeting Hamas leaders in Qatar.Israel's campaign ...
... The war began on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas-led militants stormed into Israel and killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 251 others hostage. Israel says its offensive is aimed at pressuring Hamas to surrender and return the remaining 48 hostages, about 20 of whom Israel believes are ...
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