Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians returned to northern Gaza after the Netzarim Corridor was opened,as Tel Aviv ceased all contact with the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees,and eight Gaza hostages were exchanged for 110 Palestinian prisoners.Meanwhile, survivors marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz,NATO reportedly prepared to share classified military information with the EU and the defense industry,Denmark announced a $2B defense package,and the Democratic Republic of Congo decided not to engage in peace talksas M23 rebels seized the city of Gomaand advanced toward Bukavu.

Former rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa was made interim president of Syria,as the EU decided to ease sanctions on Damascusand extended sanctions on Russia,Serbia’s Prime Minister Miloš Vučević resigned,and Belarusian Pres. Alexander Lukashenko won a seventh term.This comes as Nicaragua approved a constitutional reform to make Pres. Daniel Ortega and his wife co-presidents,Myanmar's military government extended its state of emergency for another six months,and the UK rejected recommendations to tighten the nation's parameters of what constitutes extremism.In other news, Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China,as former Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland proposed a global summit to respond to the US president's measures,and polls showed that 85% of Greenlanders oppose the idea of becoming part of the USand 46% of Danish citizens consider Washington a threat.Meanwhile, Tennessee passed a bill that would prohibit voting for sanctuary city policies,Argentina moved to build a fence at the Bolivian border,the EU suspended visa-free travel for Georgian diplomats and officials,and New Zealand eased visa rules for remote workers.Elsewhere, the UK marked the fifth anniversary of Brexit,Italy resumed migrant transfers to Albania,as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was probed over the repatriation of an alleged Libyan war criminal,and Germany’s parliament approved a motion to restrict migrationwhile rejecting the "Influx Limitation Bill..

The White House rescinded an order to freeze federal fundsafter a judge intervened in the case,the Dept. of Justice fired several prosecutors who worked on Trump's former criminal cases,and Meta agreed to pay the president $25M for suspending his accounts after the Jan. 6 riots.This comes as Trump signed a bill allowing the detainment of unauthorized migrants,as he announced that Guantanamo Bay would be expanded to host illegal migrants,and issued an order that would potentially allow foreign students who broke the law while participating in "pro-jihadist" protests to be deported,and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conducted immigration raids across New York City.Meanwhile, Trump banned federal funding for critical race theory and gender studies in schoolsand for gender transition procedures in individuals under 19, offered 2M government employees eight months' pay to resign,and signed four new executive orders to reshape the military.In other news, RFK Jr. faced his first confirmation hearing for his Health and Human Services nomination,Tulsi Gabbard was questioned during her confirmation hearing for director of National Intelligence,former Sen. Bob Menendez was sentenced to 11 years in prison,and the Supreme Court declined to review Mississippi’s lifetime voting ban for felons.

WhatsApp claimed that Israeli spyware targeted dozens of its users,a report alleged that EU funds are linked to modern slavery in North Africa,and a UK nurse was allowed to refer to a female-identifying trans doctor as a male during a tribunal hearing.

A French man convicted of orchestrating the mass rape of his wife was linked to two decades-old cold cases,the hitman who killed an acquitted Air India bombing suspect was sentenced to life in prison in Canada,14 members of a religious sect in Australia were found guilty of manslaughters,a British man was convicted of murdering his 14-year-old daughter,and the man behind Quran burning protests in Sweden was shot dead.

Microsoft reportedly considered buying TikTok,and 200 UK firms switched to a four-day workweek.

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced an economic growth plan,and a joint committee reached an agreement on France's 2025 budgetdespite a temporary setback.

Sixty-seven people were killed in the US' deadliest air crash since 2001,an air ambulance accident left at least seven dead in Philadelphia,an F-35 fighter jet crashed in Alaska,at least 39 people in India died in a stampede at the world's largest religious festival,and a massive sinkhole swallowed a two-ton truck in Japan.

Uganda declared an Ebola outbreak,Kansas battled an outbreak of tuberculosis,the US Food and Drug Administration approved the non-opioid painkiller Journavx,and the UK's GSK and Oxford launched a $62M cancer prevention vaccine program.

The leader of the Patriots for Europe group sought to suspend the EU's Green Deal,and investment in global clean energy was found to have crossed the $2T mark.

A former OpenAI safety lead described artificial general intelligence as a "risky gamble,"and OpenAI partnered with the US National Laboratories,as it accused China's DeepSeek of stealing its data,and Italy blocked DeepSeek over privacy concerns.This comes as DeepSeek sparked a $1T US stock selloff,and Alibaba launched a new AI model.

The first mouse created with two biological fathers survived to adulthood,scientists developed lab-grown muscle patches to treat heart failure,and a global study warned of a decline in species' genetic diversity.

Basketball star Terry Rozier faced a federal sports betting probe.

The 'Doomsday Clock' was moved to 89 seconds to midnight.