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Two things can be true at the same time - an adage so apt for the past day. 

One of the most high-profile and influential Palestinian politicians has told Sky News that Donald Trump is now "calling the shots" for Israel - and warned it "doesn't make sense" to have a Western-led government ruling Gaza or the return of a "British mandate" under Sir Tony Blair.

When the bus came into view, there was a surge of expectation and a rush of people.

A Briton detained in Iran during a motorbike tour has been moved to a prison where her husband is being held, her son has told Sky News.

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

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.

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".

For most of human history, no one paid all that much attention to the 17 rare earth elements.

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