A cessation of hostilities in Ukraine ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin on the eve of Orthodox Christmas took effect on Friday morning. Russia will be observing the truce for 36 hours, from 12:00 on January 6 until midnight on January 7. On Thursday, Putin has ordered the Russian military ...
The longest-serving Palestinian prisoner Karim Younes was released on Thursday, after forty years in Israeli jails. Younes has been in Israeli jails since 6 January 1983. He was initially sentenced to death over killing an occupation soldier in 1980, but his sentence was later modified to a 40-year term. He ...