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Rubik’s Cube-loving 9-year-old among hostages freed from Gaza

Rubik’s Cube-loving 9-year-old among hostages freed from Gaza

OHAD Munder, who spent his ninth birthday as a hostage in Gaza, was among four young children freed from captivity, as he returned with his mother and grandmother to Israel on the first day of a planned four-day truce and prisoner exchange. Footage released by Schneider Children's Medical Center showed Ohad running down a hospital corridor straight into his father's open arms, as the pair were reunited after almost 50 days without any contact. His father then lifts him up. The four children were all in relatively good condition, Gilat Livni, the centre's Director of Pediatrics told reporters. Some spoke of…
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Russian arms dealer says he wished Griner good luck at prisoner exchange

Russian arms dealer says he wished Griner good luck at prisoner exchange

VIKTOR Bout, the arms dealer freed in a prisoner swap for U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner, said he wished her good luck on the tarmac in Abu Dhabi where they were exchanged. Bout, who spent 14 years in U.S. jail for arms trafficking, money laundering and conspiring to kill Americans, was swapped on Thursday for the basketball star, jailed this year for bringing cannabis vape oil when arriving to play for a Russian team. Russia's FSB security service released images of the two being led past each other on the tarmac at the airport in Abu Dhabi during the swap,…
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Brittney Griner arrives in the U.S. after prisoner exchange with Russia

Brittney Griner arrives in the U.S. after prisoner exchange with Russia

A plane carrying basketball star Brittney Griner landed in the United States early on Friday, nearly 10 months after she was detained in Russia. Griner was released in a prisoner swap with Russia in exchange for arms dealer Viktor Bout and was heading home on Thursday, ending what President Joe Biden called months of "hell" for her and her wife. Griner, 32, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and star of the Women's National Basketball Association's Phoenix Mercury, flew into San Antonio, Texas. She was arrested on February 17 at a Moscow airport after vape cartridges containing cannabis oil, which is banned in…
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Belgium debates contentious prisoner swap treaty with Iran

Belgium debates contentious prisoner swap treaty with Iran

PHILIP BLENKINSOP BELGIAN lawmakers debated a prisoner exchange treaty with Tehran that an exiled Iranian group opposes and says will release the mastermind behind a plan to bomb one of its rallies. Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne urged the foreign relations committee of Belgium's lower house to back an accord that intelligence services believed could avert an increased threat against Belgian interests. "People's lives are at stake," the minister said, adding one threat that had materialised was the detention of a Belgian man in Iran since February. Many lawmakers spoke about the possibility of an exchange to secure the release…
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