Hamas has freed five more Israeli hostages in Gaza as a body released by the militant group hours earlier is confirmed to be that of Israeli mother Shiri Bibas.
Talks with Donald Trump's envoy have buoyed Volodymyr Zelenskiy a day after the US and Ukrainian leaders traded barbs amid a push to end the war with Russia.
Israel is demanding Hamas hand over the body of a mother who was held captive in Gaza, saying the remains the military received don't belong to her.
Australia's leaders have slammed Russia and urged the international community not to give "an inch" after Donald Trump attacked the Ukrainian president.
Hamas has handed over the bodies of Israeli hostages for the first time as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal.
Denmark will embark on a defence shopping spree, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has declared, as Europe faces penny-pinching claims from Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump has told "dictator" Volodymyr Zelenskiy to quickly negotiate an end to Russia's war on Ukraine as relations sour between the two leaders.
In a surprise announcement, a top Hamas leader says the militant group will release six living Israeli hostages and the bodies of four more.
Despite the good news that Russia is treating captured Australian fighter Oscar Jenkins as a prisoner of war, his release is unlikely to be immediate.
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is holding talks with top US officials in Saudi Arabia on ending the Ukraine war.
Israel will keep troops in several posts in southern Lebanon past a deadline for them to withdraw.
The Kremlin says senior American and Russian officials will hold talks on negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine.
European leaders are seeking to form a united front at emergency talks in Paris, called after a US diplomatic blitz on Ukraine.
Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu declares he and President Donald Trump have a "common strategy" for Gaza, including transferring Palestinians out of the enclave.
Europe fears being locked out of talks with Russia to end the war in Ukraine, but the US's top diplomat insists it will be in any "meaningful" negotiations.
Hamas released three Israeli hostages from captivity in Gaza while Israel handed over 369 Palestinian prisoners as the fragile ceasefire hangs in the balance.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says he directed his ministers not to sign off on a proposed agreement to give the US access to Ukraine's rare earth minerals.
The time has come for the creation of an "armed forces of Europe", Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has told world leaders and foreign policy experts.
The latest fighting between Sudan's army and paramilitary group has hardened battle lines as the conflict threatens to splinter the country.
A Russian drone attack has hit the radiation shelter over the damaged reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Volodymyr Zelensky says.
A roadside bomb has struck a vehicle carrying coal miners in restive southwest Pakistan, killing at least nine people.
The US says Ukraine will be involved in talks to end the conflict but there will be a separate US-Russian strand to the negotiations.
Hamas says it intends to release three Israeli hostages as scheduled following mediation talks in Egypt.
Ita Buttrose asked if a casual ABC radio host who shared a post on the Israel-Gaza war could be kicked off air despite a decision to keep her for all shifts.
Egypt's president and Jordan's king have called for the "immediate" start of reconstruction in the Gaza Strip "without displacing the Palestinian people".
US President Donald Trump says he has spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin about starting negotiations immediately to end the war in Ukraine.
The ABC has been put under the spotlight with various bosses grilled over why a fill-in radio host was dismissed after sharing a post on the Israel-Gaza war.
Politicians and business leaders have welcomed the end of weekly CBD Palestine protests, but further action could be called despite a plateau in crowd numbers.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns "intense fighting" will resume in Gaza if Hamas does not return hostages by noon on Saturday.
Russia has launched an early morning missile attack on Kyiv, killing one person, officials say.
The ABC's former chair has said a radio host fired for sharing a post on the Gaza conflict was an '"activist" who should not have been hired in the first place.
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