Key words : four-day pause underway red cross
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Hamas has released 24 hostages, including 13 Israelis, as a four-day pause in the conflict with Israel got underway.
A Qatari foreign ministry spokesperson said on Friday the International Committee of the Red Cross had received the freed civilians. Qatar has been mediating between the two sides.
The spokesperson said some of the freed Israelis have dual citizenship. Ten other former hostages are from Thailand, and one is from the Philippines.
Qatar's foreign ministry also said Israel has released 39 Palestinian women and children from prison as part of the deal.
Hamas has agreed to free 50 hostages held in the Gaza Strip in phases.
The Israel Defense Forces said on Friday the released hostages had arrived in Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he and his staff are committed to the return of all those abducted. He said it is one of the goals of the war and Israel will achieve all its goals.
No fighting has been reported in the Gaza Strip since the pause began on Friday morning. But Israeli troops remain deployed in Gaza.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told local media that the pause in the fighting would be short, and the war would continue for two more months.
Key words : Biden welcomed beginning
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Key words : united nations office
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A four-day pause in the fighting between Israel and Hamas entered the second day on Saturday with both sides expected to release more hostages and prisoners.
On Friday, the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas released 24 hostages, including 13 Israelis, as the pause in the conflict with Israel got underway.
Israel freed 39 Palestinian women and children who had been detained in prison in Israel.
The AFP news agency and other media outlets have quoted an Israeli official as saying that 14 Israeli hostages will likely be released on Saturday in exchange for 42 Palestinian detainees.
Israeli media say that authorities in Israel expect Hamas to begin the second round of hostage releases at 4 p.m. on Saturday, local time.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA, said on Friday that 137 trucks carrying relief supplies were offloaded in Gaza making it the biggest humanitarian convoy since October 7.
But it remains uncertain how many people will be able to get access to the goods.
Some Palestinian evacuees were seen returning to their homes to meet their families or collect personal items.
The Israeli military has been telling people taking shelter in southern Gaza not to return to northern areas.
Key words : us space force orbiting assigned
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The US Space Force has assigned a satellite number to an object recently launched by North Korea, confirming that it is orbiting the Earth.
The assigned number, 58400, is listed on the satellite-tracking "Space Track" website operated by the Space Force. According to the website, the time it takes the object to complete an Earth orbit is about 90 minutes.
North Korea has announced that it successfully launched a reconnaissance satellite for the first time on Tuesday. It is called Malligyong-1.
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Wednesday that the object appeared to have entered into planned orbit.
US military officials are expected to work with their South Korean counterparts and others to analyze whether the satellite is functioning or what capabilities it has.
Key words : kim target area
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A North Korean newspaper says leader Kim Jong Un has inspected photos taken by the country's new reconnaissance satellite of "major target areas" in South Korea.
Saturday's edition of the Rodong Sinmun, the ruling Workers' Party paper, said Kim reviewed the operational preparations for the satellite at the control center of the National Aerospace Technology Administration on Friday.
The paper said the photos were taken while the satellite was passing over the Korean Peninsula after 10:00 a.m. on Friday. They reportedly include images of Pyeongtaek in the central part of South Korea and Osan near Seoul, where US military bases are located.
The paper also mentioned a plan for the satellite to photograph "the enemy region" on Saturday morning.
Kim was said to have visited the control center the day after Tuesday's launch, where he observed aerial imagery of the US Andersen Air Force Base in Guam.
North Korea has yet to release any of these photos.
Pyongyang has indicated the new reconnaissance satellite will start operating on December 1. But South Korea's intelligence agency says it will not be able to determine the satellite's capabilities unless Pyongyang releases images.
Key words : top diplomats
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The top diplomats of Japan, the United States and South Korea have strongly condemned North Korea over its recent launch of a spy satellite.
Japan's Foreign Minister Kamikawa Yoko and her US and South Korean counterparts, Antony Blinken and Park Jin, held talks by phone early Saturday, Japan time.
During the 20-minute talk, they said North Korea's satellite launch on Tuesday is a flagrant violation of UN Security Council resolutions which prohibits any launch using ballistic missile technology.
They once again shared the view that ballistic missile launches by North Korea constitute a grave and imminent threat to the regional security and pose a clear and serious challenge to the international community.
The ministers reaffirmed that they will work closely together toward the complete denuclearization of the North. They also cited efforts such as the enhancement of regional deterrence and responses at the UN Security Council.
They also discussed the Israel-Hamas conflict. Kamikawa expressed her respect to the US and other related countries for their efforts to help realize a pause in the conflict and the release of hostages.
Kamikawa told reporters that she expects Israel and Hamas will implement the deal of allowing the release of hostages and the pause of fighting to continue.
Key words : chancellor
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The German government is struggling to draw up a budget plan following a court ruling that found the decision to reallocate pandemic funds unconstitutional.
Earlier this month, Germany's constitutional court ruled that reallocating unused funds secured in the 2021 supplementary budget for pandemic measures to projects to tackle climate change was unconstitutional. The court noted that the government should maintain fiscal discipline.
The ruling suggested that some current government spending could also be deemed unconstitutional.
The parliamentary budget committee has postponed a vote on the 2024 budget.
In a video message on Friday, Chancellor Olaf Scholz explained why drawing up a supplementary budget for this year and a budget plan for next year is difficult.
Germany has a self-imposed "debt brake" that restricts its structural budget deficit to the equivalent of 0.35 percent of gross domestic product. The rule was designed to maintain fiscal discipline based on lessons learned from hyperinflation experienced after World War One.
The German government can suspend the debt brake mechanism and make massive public spending if the parliament considers it an emergency.
Sholtz expressed his intention to ask parliament to allow this year's supplementary budget to be exempted from the debt brake rule.
For the regular 2024 budget, it is uncertain whether the government will be able to secure funding.
Experts are concerned that a prolonged budget crisis could impact the German economy.
Key words : nissan
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Japanese automaker Nissan Motor says it will make a new investment of up to 2 billion pounds, or about 2.5 billion dollars, in a plant in northern Britain to expand electric vehicle production.
Nissan President and CEO Uchida Makoto announced the plan at a news conference on Friday at the firm's Sunderland plant.
The money will be spent on manufacturing two new EV models as well as research and development.
The move comes as Nissan aims to shift its passenger car lineup in Europe to fully electric by 2030. Uchida said the company is making that vision happen with Friday's announcement.
The automaker apparently hopes to expand its market share in Europe as the continent speeds up the shift to EVs.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who visited the plant, welcomed Nissan's investment, saying it is "a massive vote of confidence in the UK's automotive industry."
In 2022, Britain's car production fell nearly 10 percent from the previous year, to a little over 770,000 units.
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