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15 Palestinians arrested over terror incitement before prisoner swap
Updated : 5 months ago IST
Israeli security forces arrested 15 Palestinian suspects in Judea and Samaria over the weekend for involvement in activities promoting terrorism, authorities said on Sunday.
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US, Afghan officials agree to prisoner swap after high-level talks in Kabu
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
US officials and Afghan authorities have agreed to carry out a prisoner exchange, after a rare talk with the authorities in Kabul, Afghanistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Saturday.
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US sends 250 deportees to Venezuela from El Salvador in exchange for 10 Am
Updated : 7 months, 4 weeks ago IST
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio thanked Venezuelan President Nayib Bukele for helping secure an agreement for the release of all of our American detainees.
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Zelensky says only he will discuss territorial issues with Putin, rejects
Updated : 9 months ago IST
Zelensky has rejected Russia's proposal as an ultimatum, insisting on a full ceasefire. Meanwhile, a second group of Russian POWs was released under a prisoner swap deal agreed in Istanbul, RT reported.
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Over 100 civilians injured in Ukrainian strikes, says Russia
Updated : 9 months, 1 week ago IST
Over 100 civilians were injured and four killed in Russian regions due to Ukrainian attacks, Russia claimed. A planned prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine failed amid mutual accusations, but both sides agreed to attempt another exchange during peace talks in Istanbul, according to TASS
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Russia plans to send more Ukrainian soldiers' bodies to border
Updated : 9 months, 1 week ago IST
Russia has announced that it will soon send trains carrying the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers, which were due to depart toward the Ukrainian border, escalating a spat with Kyiv over a prisoner of war swap.
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Russia-Ukraine planned exchange of prisoners turns into dispute
Updated : 9 months, 1 week ago IST
A planned exchange of prisoners of war between Russia and Ukraine did not happen on Saturday due to disagreements between the two sides.
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Dual US-Russian national convicted over Ukraine aid donation freed in pris
Updated : 11 months, 1 week ago IST
In a rare prisoner exchange aimed at easing tensions between Washington and Moscow, an American citizen has been freed from Russian detention, officials from both countries confirmed on Thursday, according to a report by New York Times.
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3 Americans released in prisoner swap in China now back in US
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
In exchange for the three American nationals citizens, The New York Times reported that one of the Chinese citizens released may be Xu Yanjun, an intelligence officer of China's Ministry of State Security. In addition to Xu Yanjun, Ji Chaoqun, a Chinese American who became a citizen throu
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"Feat of diplomacy": Joe Biden hails prisoner exchange deal with Russia
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
The United States and Russia carried out a historic prisoner exchange on Thursday, under which, two dozen detainees, including former US Marine Paul Whelan and Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, are being released.
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Russian court sentences US soldier to nearly four years
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
On Wednesday, the Pervomaisky District Court of Vladivostok sentenced Black to three years and nine months in a penal colony.
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Returning as President, Putin says he agreed for prisoner exchange involvi
Updated : 1 year, 12 months ago IST
Securing a crushing victory in the Russian Presidential elections, Vladimir Putin said he had agreed to a prisoner swap involving Alexei Navalny before the opposition leader's sudden death in an Arctic prison in February, CNN reported.
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