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Hamas said it had handed over 13 Israeli hostages, three Thai nationals and a person with Russian citizenship who had been held in the Gaza Strip to the Red Cross on the third day of a truce.

Hamas fighters have released 24 hostages during the first day of the war's first truce, including Israeli women and children and Thai workers, after guns fell silent across the Gaza Strip.

The jury convicted a right-wing conspiracy theorist on Thursday for the hammer attack that fractured Pelosi's husbands skull.

Israel has agreed to pause military operations in parts of north Gaza for four hours a day from today, the White House said.

Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump has testified that she did not recall details of real-estate deals she worked on at her father's company.

Analysis - The Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting this week takes place amid a changing dynamic of security and development in the region, writes Maima Koro

The 52nd Pacific Islands Forum in Rarotonga starts on Monday. RNZ Pacific spoke to the Forum chair to preview what the leaders will be focusing on next week.

The former US vice president says he has "no regrets" after pulling out of the race to be the next Republican nominee.

Maine police searched for a US Army reservist wanted for murder after 18 people were killed and 13 were wounded in shooting attacks at a bowling alley and a bar in the city of Lewiston.

The gunman is a former soldier and trained firearms instructor, and recent patient at mental health centre. The death toll may be as high as 22.

Concerns the Israel-Hamas war could trigger wider Middle East conflict is rising, with the US sending more military assets and Israel pummelling targets in Gaza and Hamas supporters in Lebanon and…

Vital supplies such as food, water and shelter were needed "yesterday" in Gaza and UNICEF is among those ready to help, an expert says. Audio

Israel's military has published what it described as evidence that a misfired Palestinian rocket, rather than one of its own munitions, caused an explosion at a Gaza hospital.

Opinion - Regardless of the election result, a form of austerity was always going to win, Toby Boraman writes.

Analysis - The latest outbreak of violence in Israel and Gaza show that dehumanisation is an active tool of modern warfare, fought in the age of the 15-second video, Phil Vine writes.

Analysis - It was perhaps inevitable that the shock Hamas attack on Israel would become a minor election sideshow in New Zealand. Less than a week from the polls, a crisis in the Middle East offered…

Israel formed an emergency unity government as it pounded Gaza to root out Hamas and deployed forces north of the densely populated Palestinian enclave, where the militants said they were still…

Israel battered Gaza on Sunday, a day after Hamas fighters rampaged through Israeli towns, killing hundreds and abducting others, threatening a major new war in the Middle East.

The US government is on the brink of another shutdown with Congress poised to miss a Saturday midnight deadline.

Dianne Feinstein, the California senator who served for more than three decades and was a trailblazer for women in US politics, has died aged 90.

The US President has pledged a further $325m in support for Ukraine.

The four American men and one woman arrived in Qatar after US$6b of frozen Iranian funds was released.

The US House of Representatives will open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, its most senior Republican has said.

The Proud Boys' former leader has been jailed for 22 years for orchestrating the US Capitol riot, the longest sentence so far for a ringleader of the raid on the seat of American democracy.

The past six months has brought a stream of bad news for China's economy: Slow growth, record youth unemployment, low foreign investment, weak exports and currency, and a property sector in crisis.