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Qatari Foreign Ministry: Qatar and Egypt welcome Hamas' announcement of its agreement to release American Aidan Alexander.

Hamas says to release US captive Edan Alexander.

Al Mayadeen's sources: Trump will announce that Hamas will release US captive Edan Alexander from Gaza.

Al Mayadeen correspondent: Israeli aircraft bombed the coastal province of Hodeidah on the Red Sea, west of Yemen.

The Israeli occupation military issues a bombing threat against the Yemeni ports of Ras Isa, Hodeidah, and Salif.

UKMTO says vessel reported a small craft colliding with it, attempting to collide with other vessels in the area

UKMTO says it received a report of an incident 80NM northwest of jebel Ali, UAE

Israeli Foreign Minister says 'Israel' fully endorses Trump plan for Gaza aid: Reuters

Iranian state media: The fourth round of nuclear talks between Tehran and Washington has kicked off in Oman

Senior Israeli intelligence official: Contacts are underway between Syria and "Israel" to retrieve the body of the spy Eli Cohen

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Palestinian children wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip are treated at al Aqsa Hospital on Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, on Nov. 21, 2023. (AP)

1,500 blinded, 4,000 others at risk as Gaza eye care system crumbles

a Sudanese woman gets treated at the Mycetoma Research Centre in Khartoum (Mycetoma Research Centre website)

Decades of Sudan medical research, health progress in ruins amid war

Dentist James Bekker with dissected human teeth on 30 April 2025, at his office in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Hannah Schoenbaum/AP)

Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in public drinking water

Children in Gaza line up waiting to receive food (AP)

At least 65,000 Gaza children hospitalized due to severe malnutrition

Sale signs hang on the long display of snacks available at a Target store Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023, in Sheridan, Colo (AP)

Ultra-processed food linked to higher risk of early death, study finds

The entrance to the Trump National Doral resort is shown, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, in Doral, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Trump resort to host conference promoting toxic 'miracle cure'

Burned, amputated: Gaza children bear brunt of brutal Israeli war

Burned, amputated: Gaza children bear brunt of brutal Israeli war

Displaced child Mohammed Abu Obaid, who suffers from skin disease, at a makeshift tent camp in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Monday, July 29, 2024. (AP)

Gaza Strip faces worsening health crisis as waste piles threaten lives

Wasem Attiya pushes his father, Mohamed, 54, in a wheelchair as they head to Shifa hospital in Gaza City for a dialysis session, Monday, April 14, 2025 (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)

Hundreds of Gaza dialysis patients killed as 'Israel' blocks treatment

WHO faces major downsizing as US funding cuts take toll

Anna Riley, a microbiology major, labels vials in a lab at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Ariz., Friday, Jan. 31, 2025 (AP)

New White House website claims COVID-19 caused by 'China lab leak'

A sign for the US Food and Drug Administration is displayed outside their offices in Silver Spring, Md., Dec. 10, 2020. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

FDA to suspend food testing as staff cuts bite into safety program

A dentist holds a model of teeth and a toothbrush in Seattle on Aug. 3, 2018 (AP)

King's College scientists grow teeth in a lab in breakthrough

A bee collects pollen from a sunflower in a field on the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, Aug. 2, 2024 (AP)

Climate change is making pollen allergies worse: BBC

A Somali internally-displaced (IDP) child sits outside makeshift homes in Maslah camp, Mogadishu, Somalia April 9, 2025 (AP/Farah Abdi)

Charity blames US aid cuts for fatal cholera claiming children's lives

Mexico reports first human death from H5N1 bird flu

H5N1 bird flu turns deadly in Mexico, first human death reported

A nurse prepares a COVID-19 vaccine before administering it to Sister Joanna Sloan, left, the first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Royal Victoria Hospital, in Belfast, Tuesday Dec. 8, 2020 (AP)

Northern Ireland's public services face risk of potential collapse