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It has been an extraordinary day of enormous emotion and high drama but, for all that, we have only witnessed the first phase of the Trump peace plan - and in many ways that is the easy bit.

For two years, they have gathered in Hostages Square - parents, brothers, sisters, extended family and friends clutching photographs and signs reading "bring them home".

Drones have been a common sight in Gaza for a long time, but they have always been military.

Hamas has handed over all 20 surviving hostages being held in Gaza - with President Trump heralding the moment as the "historic dawn of a new Middle East".

Dozens of the Palestinian prisoners released on Monday are aged between 16 and 20, with at least two in their 70s, new data shows.

Donald Trump was heckled by left-wing politicians as he told Israel's parliament the Gaza peace deal marks "the historic dawn of a new Middle East".

At least 42 people have been killed in a bus crash on a steep mountain road in South Africa, authorities have said.

Two fast trains have crashed head on in Slovakia leaving dozens of people injured, two of them in a critical condition.

The president of Madagascar Andry Rajoelina has fled the country after weeks of street protests, the opposition leader has said.

Sir Keir Starmer will join world leaders at a historic summit in Egypt today - to witness the signing of the Gaza peace plan to end two years of conflict, bloodshed and suffering that has cost tens of thousands of lives and turned Gaza into a wasteland.