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Smoke billows from the Gaza Strip skyline as the sun sets. Hamas is willing to extend a truce for four days and release more Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, a source close to the militant group said, as mediators sought a lasting halt to the conflict. IMAGES
Timelapse of the sunset over northern Gaza seen from Sderot as the fragile truce holds as Hamas militants were set to release a third group of Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. IMAGES
The Colombian government and dissidents of the FARC guerrilla group that signed a 2016 peace pact, start talks with a view to demobilizing some 3,500 fighters and putting an end, once and for all, to their armed insurgency. The parties have also agreed to observe a bilateral ceasefire until January 15, according to the defense ministry. Negotiations between the government of President Gustavo Petro and leaders of the so-called Central General Staff (EMC) kick off in Tibu in the country's northeast, an area surrounded by drug crops and hard-hit by the ongoing violence. IMAGES
The government of Colombia and armed dissidents who broke off from what was once the nation's largest insurgency agree to renew a ceasefire and join peace talks. A joint statement did not specify how soon the ceasefire would take effect but said peace talks would subsequently begin between the government and the dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), an insurgency that laid down arms in 2016. IMAGES
European Council President Charles Michel welcomes Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev and Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan for peace talks hosted by the European Union in Brussels. The discussions, mediated by Michel and aimed at resolving the conflict for the control of Armenian-populated Karabakh, come at a time of renewed tensions after Azerbaijan closed the Lachin corridor, the sole land link between Karabakh and Armenia. IMAGES
Images show an aircraft flying under the banner of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) departing from Sanaa International Airport to Aden International Airport with released prisoners, previously held by Yemen's Huthi rebels, aboard. IMAGES
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