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Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, is due to meet the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party leader, Alice Weidel, in Budapest.

Weidel's far right party shares Alban’s desire to rebuild their relations with Russia, despite the ongoing Ukraine war, as well as his strong anti-immigration stance.

The meeting comes less than two weeks before a parliamentary election in Germany in which the AfD is expected to come a strong second.

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US President Donald Trump said if Hamas does not release all remaining hostages from Gaza by midday on Saturday, Israel should cancel the ceasefire and "let hell break out”.

Ahead of a meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah, Trump suggested he may withhold aid to Jordan and Egypt if they don't co-operate with his plan to take control of Gaza and resettle the population in the two countries.

Hamas said it would delay the release of Israeli hostages until further notice, accusing Israel of breaching the Gaza ceasefire agreement.

Israel called the move a "complete violation" of the ceasefire deal, which began last month, and said its military was preparing at "the highest level of alert for any possible scenario in Gaza".

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We look at the latest Trump news which includes the announcement that he will impose 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports into the U.S.

President Trump made the announcement to reporters aboard Air Force One after becoming the first sitting president to attend the Super Bowl, where he and Taylor Swift got mixed reactions from the crowd.

Adam and Chris talk about the implications of the tariffs for the UK and the rest of the world with Sumi Somaskanda, BBC News chief presenter in Washington.

And we look at the latest suspension of a UK Labour Party MP as more WhatsApps are leaked.

You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers.

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Ecuador's presidential election will go to a second round after a closely contested first-round result failed to produce an outright winner.

The electoral authorities called it a "technical tie" after the incumbent centre-right candidate, Daniel Noboa, and his main left-wing challenger Luisa González received nearly identical percentages of the vote.

The pair will now face a run-off in April.

The result is far narrower than opinion polls had predicted, indicating the second round could be harder to call.

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Hamas says it's delaying the release of Israeli hostages until further notice.

It says it's a response to Israel breaching the Gaza ceasefire agreement, which began last month.

Israel calls the decision a "complete violation" of the ceasefire deal, and says it's putting its military on the "highest level of alert".

Three Israeli hostages were due to be released on Saturday.

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A two-day global summit is under way in Paris to discuss the future of AI.

The aim of the summit is to unite world leaders, tech executives, and academics to examine AI's impact on society, governance, and the environment.

Among those attending are US vice president JD Vance, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and China's vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang.

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, Microsoft president Brad Smith and Google chief executive Sundar Pichai are also in attendance.

A key focus is regulating AI in an increasingly fractured world. The summit comes weeks after a seismic industry shift as China's DeepSeek unveiled a powerful, low-cost AI model, challenging US dominance.

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Already one of this year's early big hitters, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 is also hoping to win awards - beginning with its script.

The game by Warhorse Studios is being looked at by the Guinness World Records to claim the title of longest script in video game history.

As wait and see for the record, the actors who play Henry and Hans spoke to BBC Newsbeat about the success of the first game and the anticipation for the latest instalment.

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US President Donald Trump has said he is committed to buying and owning Gaza and would possibly give sections of it to other states in the Middle East to rebuild.

Palestinians in Gaza would not want to go back after finding better places to live, he claimed.

He said he wanted to make it into a good site for future development and take care of the Palestinians.

He added that he would consider cases of allowing Palestinian refugees into the US.

This comes as the president has said he will announce a 25% import tax on all steel and aluminium entering the US, a move that will have the biggest impact in Canada.

Trump also said that there would be an announcement later in the week about reciprocal tariffs on all countries that tax imports from the US, but he did not specify which nations would be targeted, or if there would be any exemptions.

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Thousands of Palestinians have been returning to their homes in northern Gaza after Israeli forces withdrew from a key militarised zone that had cut the territory in half.

Many of the returning people will find their homes reduced to rubble. Around 700,000 civilians fled their neighbourhoods at the time of Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza.

The northern part of the Gaza Strip had been cut off from the south by the Netzarim Corridor. The Israeli withdrawal from the strategically important road was agreed as part of the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.

Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Wyre Davies.

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The first president of independent Namibia, Sam Nujoma, has died at the age of 95, the country's current leader has announced.

Nujoma led the long fight for independence from South Africa in 1990 after helping found Namibia's liberation movement known as the South West Peoples' Organisation (Swapo) in the 1960s.

After independence, Nujoma became president in 1990 and led the country until 2005.

Nujoma had been hospitalised over the past three weeks with an illness from which he "could not recover", Namibian President Nangolo Mbumba said.

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