The Berlin film festival premiered a documentary about an Israeli hostage held by Hamas on Friday as it seeks to move on from controversy over its stance on Gaza at

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Israel ’s anger at Hamas over a botched hostage release, a Chinese maritime exercise near Australia ’s coast, and snap parliamentary elections in Germany.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation Sunday about the hostage deal between Israel and Hamas, the war in Ukraine, Vice President J.D. Vance's speech during the Security Conference in Munich,

Scholz says Germany won't accept people who 'intervene in our democracy,' a day after US vice president scolds Europeans.

The decision to no longer print family names was implemented after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led massacre in southern Israel.

Israel says it has received 3 hostages after Hamas released them to the Red Cross in Gaza MUNICH, Germany (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says time has come for the creation of ‘armed forces of Europe.

Germany is in a crisis of stagnant growth and ... it could potentially challenge Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats for first. Hamas handed over yesterday what it said were the remains of ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz told Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu that he would invite him to Germany in defiance of an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Israeli prime minister's office said on Monday.

I think it is a completely absurd idea that an Israeli prime minister cannot visit the Federal Republic of Germany,' Merz said.

Israel and the terrorist group Hamas Tuesday agreed in principle to further exchange Palestinian prison inmates for the bodies of four Israeli hostages as part of the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire,