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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Hamas on Saturday released the last six living hostages under the first phase of its ceasefire with Israel with a week remaining, as growing questions over the next phase clouded the future of the fragile deal .

HOPKINS, Minn. (AP) — Every Sunday, Johann Teran goes to worship at a Lutheran service in suburban Minneapolis, trying to find some hope that the future he was building isn’t all slipping away.

HOPKINS, Minn. (AP) — Every Sunday, Johann Teran goes to worship at a Lutheran service in suburban Minneapolis, trying to find some hope that the future he was building isn’t all slipping away.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Six Israeli men held hostage in the Gaza Strip were freed Saturday, bringing to 25 the number of Israeli captives released by militants as part of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas that began last month.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Hamas freed six Israelis on Saturday in the last scheduled release of living hostages by the militant group under the current stage of a ceasefire agreement with Israel .

ROME (AP) — The Vatican carried on with its Holy Year celebrations without the pope Saturday, as Pope Francis battled pneumonia and a complex respiratory infection that doctors say remains touch-and-go and will keep him hospitalized for at least anot

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed revenge Friday for what he described as a “cruel and malicious violation” of the ceasefire agreement after authorities determined that a body released by Hamas was not an Israeli mother

BERLIN (AP) — Police arrested a man suspected in a stabbing attack Friday at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial that left a Spanish tourist seriously injured, police said.

Hamas on Friday released the names of six living Israeli hostages who the militants plan to release from Gaza on Saturday.

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