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Negotiator discusses the pathways of gaining release of wrongfully detained Americans
Voice of America
FILE - Danny Fenster, center, hugs his mother Rose Fenster as former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson, right, looks on at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, Nov. 16, 2021. Journalist Fenster was held in a Myanmar prison. Harrison Li holds a photo of his father, Kai Li, on Jan. 23, 2024, in Palo Alto, Calif. Li's father, Kai, remains detained in China on espionage charges his family says are bogus and FILE - A Hamas cameraman stands behind Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, released after more than five years in captivity, on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing on Oct. 18, 2011. FILE - Families and friends of current and former hostages and detainees gather outside of the White House in Washington, May 3, 2023, to ask the Biden administration for more help. FILE - Joey and Paula Reed pose for a photo with a portrait of their son Marine veteran and Russian prisoner Trevor Reed at their home in Fort Worth, Texas, Feb. 15, 2022. FILE - In this March 16, 2016, file photo, American student Otto Warmbier, center, is escorted at the Supreme Court in Pyongyang, North Korea.
The Biden administration has launched an intense drive to persuade Hamas and Israel to accept a new cease-fire proposal, announced by President Joe Biden last week, in the nearly 8-month-old war in Gaza.
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People stand next to a police vehicle that was burned during a demonstrations against the Kenya's proposed finance bill in Nairobi, Kenya, June 26, 2024. Members of the first contingent of Kenyan police are seen after arriving in the Caribbean country as part of a peacekeeping mission, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, June 26, 2024.
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A woman leaves a shop through a broken window as clean up operations are underway following a deadly nationwide strike to protest against tax hikes and the Finance Bill 2024 in downtown Nairobi, on June 26, 2024. The Kenyan flag covers a body after demonstrators stormed the Kenyan parliament building during a protest in Nairobi against tax hikes, June 25, 2024.