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President Donald Trump plans to travel to the Middle East and may be going to Egypt for a signing ceremony of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.

Trump added that hostages will be released from Gaza Monday or Tuesday.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin is taking partial responsibility for Russia's downing of an Azerbaijan Airlines flight in December 2024 that killed 38 people.

Putin sought to blame Ukrainian drones that entered Russian airspace on the night of the crash as well as technical failures in the Russian air defense system.

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A French appeals court has increased the sentence to 10 years for a man who raped Gisèle Pelicot while she was drugged and unconscious.

Husamettin Dogan, a 44-year-old construction worker, initially received a nine-year sentence in a trial last year that captivated France.

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Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday.

His philosophical, bleakly funny novels often unfold in single sentences.