President Volodymyr Zelensky has confirmed for the first time that the Ukrainian military is conducting a cross-border offensive inside Russia's western Kursk region Late Saturday night, Zelensky said Ukraine was pushing the war onto "the aggressor's
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Of some 240 people seized by Hamas in an October 7 cross-border killing spree that sparked the war, around half were released in a November truce. Israel says 132 remain in Gaza and that 25 of them have died in captivity.
The vestiges of war and continued instability have hampered significant development and growth. Also, also key issues like oil proceeds sharing, border demarcation, cross-border trade, and citizenship have not been resolved.
The war was triggered by a cross-border raid by Hamas militants on Oct. 7 that killed about 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians, in the deadliest day in the state's 75-year-history.
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The NNA reported that the Lebanese Red Cross and the army had recovered seven bodies from a village in the southern region of Tyre following recent heavy raids.
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