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Windows were shattered and a fire broke out in a non-residential building in Shevchenkivskyi district, officials say.

Israel’s cabinet voted on Saturday to approve a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said. The first stage of the truce is set to begin this weekend bringing a halt to fighting and bombardment in Gaza’s deadliest-ever war. Follow our liveblog for the latest developments.

As France celebrates half a century of legal abortion, FRANCE 24’s Oliver Farry welcomes Kei Yoshida, Senior Legal Advisor at the Center for Reproductive Rights, offering an in-depth look at women’s health, reproductive rights, and the progressive trend spanning the globe.

The Supreme Court earlier upheld a law that would ban the video app in the US unless its Chinese parent-company sells it.

The Cholas were a powerful south Indian dynasty known for military conquests, grand temples and shaping global trade and culture.

He won the election to fix inflation but Trump may find his pledges on prices and tariffs can’t both win out, say experts.

Mzwandile Mkwayi volunteered to go down into the shaft to help save the lives of scores of South African miners.

Gas from the seafloor has scientists wondering if oxygen could be found in the oceans of other planets.

The BBC spoke to officials from both sides of the talks to piece together how the Gaza deal was done.

Tens of thousands of Serbians protested outside the public broadcaster to demand objective reporting. There have been daily street protests throughout the Balkan country since November last year.

Some creators told the BBC they will start to diversify where they post their content and lean in to platforms like Instagram and YouTube.

Two wildfires still burning in Los Angeles have torched more urban areas than any other fire in the state since at least the mid-1980s. Experts say several factors could lead to wildfires reaching cities more often, inviting climate change and urban sprawl. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective, FRANCE 24’s Yinka Oyetade welcomes Yves Figueiredo, Associate Professor of US Environmental History at LARCA, an interdisciplinary research unit of Université Paris Cité.

The vote paves the way for exchanges of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners to begin on Sunday.

The rocket’s upper stage disintegrated over the Caribbean, forcing airline flights to alter course.

The US presidential inauguration on January 20 in Washington, D.C. will be the ultimate victory lap for Donald Trump as he returns to the White House. What happens on the day, who is invited and who pays for it all?

A former CIA employee who was accused of leaking classified documents about Israel’s plans to strike Iran has pleaded guilty to criminal charges that he willfully retained and transmitted national defense information. Asif Rahman, 34, was arrested by the FBI in November, weeks after the classified documents appeared on the Telegram messaging app.

It’s been a week of high-stakes developments around the globe. In Gaza, a long-awaited ceasefire deal has been reached, set to begin Sunday, with plans to exchange hostages for prisoners in a bid for “sustainable calm.” In South Korea, the dramatic arrest of President Yoon Suk Yeol unfolded amid accusations of insurrection. Meanwhile, in the U.S., TikTok’s future hangs in the balance, driving users to a Chinese rival app as a court ruling edges the platform closer to a potential shutdown.

The last president to be sworn-in indoors was Ronald Reagan in 1985, when cold weather also plagued the US Capitol.

During World War II, the Japanese imperial authorities abducted, coerced, tricked and sometimes recruited hundreds of thousands of women from Japan’s colonial empire to become sexual slaves for soldiers. Sometimes minors, these women were called “comfort women” and were raped repeatedly in brothels near the front lines. With only a handful of survivors still alive in China, our correspondents met one of them: 95-year-old Peng Zhuying. She is determined to share her story in a country where the subject remains taboo.

Two ships sailing under the flag of Panama ran into problems off the coast of Germany recently. For over a century now, shipowners wanting to circumvent certain regulations have opted for the Panama flag.

The new law will land in the incoming president’s lap – but it’s also a political opportunity, writes Anthony Zurcher.

Civilians in Gaza nervously await a ceasefire after 15 relentless months of war.

For our first Talking Europe interview with the new crop of EU Commissioners, we host Hadja Lahbib, who is in charge of preparedness and crisis management, as well as equality. Lahbib, a former foreign minister of Belgium, talks about the challenges of her extremely broad portfolio, covering Ukraine, Gaza, Syria, Afghanistan and Sudan. A common thread is the difficulties faced by women and girls in crisis situations around the world – something that links up with Lahbib’s efforts to promote gender balance and women’s rights in the EU itself.

The government says a fresh cholera outbreak has spread to eight districts, infecting nearly 300 people. Burst pipes left in disrepair for months and spewing human waste into the streets are believed to be the cause.

In the wake of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, outgoing US President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump, who returns to office on Monday, both raced to take credit for what they hope will be a major diplomatic success. It is a deal, however, that could still collapse at any moment.

Those fighting for Ukraine and those who have lost loved ones hope to end the war with Russia on their own terms.

The two countries sign a 20-year treaty covering areas ranging from defence and technology to energy and trade.

Could there be ways to bypass the ban – and could president-elect Donald Trump find a way to stop the law?