Trump and Netanyahu to hold joint press conference at the White House Tuesday
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Washington — President Trump will hold a joint news conference at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday. It will be Mr. Trump's first joint news conference with a foreign leader in his new term.
"I think it's a testimony to the strength of the Israeli-American alliance," Netanyahu said in a statement ahead of his trip on being the first foreign leader to meet with Mr. Trump since he began his second term.
Netanyahu's visit to Washington comes as a fragile ceasefire continues to hold between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Mediators have begun negotiations for a second phase of the deal that would free all the remaining hostages and end the war with Hamas.
Two top security officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development have been placed on administrative leave, the latest in a series of suspensions and layoffs at the American government's primary humanitarian aid agency.
A series of earthquakes near the Greek island of Santorini have led authorities to shut down schools, dispatch rescue teams with sniffer dogs and send instructions to residents including a request to drain their swimming pools.
Powerful Arab nations rejected President Trump's suggestion to relocate Palestinians from Gaza to neighboring Egypt and Jordan.
Tel Aviv — American-Israeli dual national Keith Siegel was among three hostages released by militants in the war-torn Gaza Strip on Saturday, more than 15 months after they were taken captive by Hamas. Siegel was freed in Gaza City about two hours after Israelis Yarden Bibas and Ofer Calderon were released in the southern city of Khan Younis. The Israeli military confirmed Siegel's transfer from militants to Red Cross personnel.
Six Americans who had been detained in Venezuela in recent months were freed by the government of President Nicolás Maduro after he met Friday with a Trump administration official tasked with urging the authoritarian leader to take back deported migrants who have committed crimes in the United States.
Mexico's government, under mounting pressure from President Trump to curb drug trafficking, announced Friday that it had seized 18 kilos of fentanyl hidden in a bus.