Biden and Trump envoys jointly put pressure on Netanyahu, and Qatar put pressure on the Palestinian group Karima Jafaar / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed al-Thani before a press conference at which he announced an agreement between Israel and Hamas. January 15, 2025 The terms of the deal between Israel and Hamas , which is due to come into force on January 19, were outlined in general terms long before that: US President Joe Biden proposed them in the first half of 2024.

Israel has yet to receive from Hamas a list of names of hostages the terrorist group is expected to release as part of a ceasefire agreement. This was stated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “We will not move forward with the plan until we receive a list of hostages who will be released as agreed. Israel will not tolerate violations of the agreement. Full responsibility lies with Hamas,” the head of government said.

The Telegram messenger deletes between 15 and 20 million user accounts every month for violating the law. This was stated by the founder of the platform Pavel Durov during the first interrogation on the merits of his case at the court hearing on December 6, 2024. France Info radio station reviewed the transcript of the meeting.

Updated . Anna Pavlikova has not been detained, her husband, activist Konstantin Kotov, told Mediazona. According to him, FSIN officers came to her to pick up equipment for monitoring those under house arrest and to find out exactly when Kotov left Russia. Pavlikova’s sister Anastasia also denied that Anna was detained. Anna Pavlikova, a former defendant in the “New Greatness” case and the wife of activist Konstantin Kotov, who left Russia, was detained in Moscow.

The State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine reported suspicion to a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of several convocations from the banned pro-Russian party “Opposition Bloc”. He is suspected of high treason (Part 1 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) and inciting religious enmity and hatred (Part 2 of Article 161 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

US President-elect Donald Trump announced the launch of his own cryptocurrency, the $TRUMP memcoin . “It's time to celebrate everything we stand for: winning! Join my dedicated Trump community. Get your $TRUMP now,” the politician wrote on social networks. The President published a link to the Trump Meme website, where you can purchase memecoin. At the first stage, 200 million coins are available for purchase. Over the next three years, their number will reach a billion.

Several dozen residents of the Sudzhansky, Korenevsky and Bolshesoldatsky districts of the Kursk region staged a rally on Red Square of Kursk on the afternoon of January 18. According to local public accounts, about 50 displaced people, who were forced to leave their homes in the border areas due to the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, took part in the rally.

At least 49 patients of the Kamchatka Regional Oncology Center who underwent a computed tomography (CT) procedure were diagnosed with hepatitis B and C, writes KamchatkaMedia. 36 people were diagnosed with an acute form of the disease, 13 with a chronic form. As noted, patients at the oncology clinic became infected from November 2023 to December 2024. Everyone who visited the CT room during this period is at risk.

Mostafa Alkharouf / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images Itamar Ben-Gvir (left) and Benjamin Netanyahu On the night of January 17-18, the Israeli government, after many hours of debate, officially approved an agreement on a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners. The ministers, many of whom are religious, even had to violate the ban on working on the Sabbath - Jewish law allows this if it comes down to life and death.

One thousand sixtieth day. The Russian army fired a ballistic missile at Kyiv. The Russian Ministry of Defense named the Luch design bureau, which designs the Neptune missiles, as the target of the attack. Gleb Garanich / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Burnt out car at the site of a Russian strike in Kyiv, January 18, 2025 Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Photos As a result of the full-scale war, Ukraine has become the most heavily mined country in the world: according to estimates published by the UN Development Program in October 2024, 23% of Ukrainian territory is at risk of being contaminated by mines and unexploded ordnance.

Two Iranian Supreme Court judges were killed and another was wounded in a shooting that occurred near the department's building in Tehran on the morning of January 18. The IRNA agency reports this. The attacker of the judges committed suicide after the shooting, writes Tehran Times. The publication names the names of the dead - these are Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghisekh. These judges tried cases of terrorism and espionage suspects. Authorities regard the attack as a terrorist attack.

The court arrested the property of rapper Alisher Morgenstern as part of a criminal case for failure to fulfill the duties of a “foreign agent,” the Moscow prosecutor’s office reports. In particular, the arrest was imposed on the rapper's land and house in the Istra district of the Moscow region, as well as another non-residential building and three non-residential premises.

Georgian national football team player Khvicha Kvaratskhelia has moved from the Italian Napoli to the French club Paris Saint-Germain. The contract will be valid until 2029. The transfer amount was 70 million euros. 23-year-old Kvaratskhelia will play in the Parisian club under number seven. He became the first Georgian footballer in the history of PSG. “We are pleased to welcome Khvicha Kvaratskhelia to the Paris Saint-Germain family.

But why? Tennis Australia / AP / Scanpix / LETA For the second year in a row, the organizers of the Australian Open tennis tournament are broadcasting matches live on YouTube in an unusual format. Instead of players, viewers are shown their digital avatars - slightly ridiculous, big-headed figures that look like video game characters. At the same time, they quite accurately repeat the movements of real tennis players, even when they behave unconventionally on the court.