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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened to resume the war on Gaza, unless Israeli captives are released by Saturday. He says the military has been ordered to reinforce its positions in and around the Gaza Strip. On Monday Hamas announced it was indefinitely delaying the next planned release of captives -- accusing Israel of violating the terms of the ceasefire agreement.

Investigators in the Philippines have recommended filing criminal charges against Vice President Sara Duterte for inciting sedition. It's in connection with a speech she made in November - when Duterte said she'd ordered someone to kill President Ferdinand Marcos Junior, if she herself was assassinated for publicly criticising him. Duterte was impeached last week for corruption and violating the constitution. She has denied making threats and says the charges against her are politically motivated.

King Abdullah II remained calm during his visit with Trump but it’s obvious that Jordan, along with the rest of the Arab world, firmly opposes the US president’s plan to forcibly displace Palestinians from Gaza, an analyst says. “I think it’s pretty clear that the Jordanian leader does not want to have any sort of public feud with Donald Trump,” Giorgio Cafiero, a political analyst at Gulf State Analytics, told Al Jazeera. “When he was meeting with him earlier today in Washington, he was clearly uncomfortable but he was very diplomatic.”

Trump’s plan to take over Gaza and turn it into the “Riviera of the Middle East” is an “overblown dream that’s not going to come to fruition”, Harlan Ullman, a political and military analyst at the Atlantic Council, tells Al Jazeera. But the improbable plan might be used as a “bargaining chip” by the Trump administration, he added. “How do you move two million people? Where do you move them? How do you feed and house them? These are huge, huge logistical problems. And who’s going to pay for it?” Ullman asked.

In Afghanistan, at least 18 people have been killed in a suicide attack outside a bank in Kunduz city, north of the capital, Kabul. The victims were waiting to receive their salaries. At least 45 others have been injured. No group has claimed responsibility for the blast yet. Aminullah Habibi is an independent analyst who focuses on political and security issues in Afghanistan. He says it's not clear yet who's responsible for the attack.

The Paris summit has drawn nearly 100 world leaders and tech firms with the consensus that 2025 is not the year for new AI regulations. France says it's time to simplify the rules in Europe to allow advances -- or risk being left behind. In January Chinese start-up DeepSeek disrupted Wall Street and Silicon Valley. Stocks plunged when it launched a cheaper and more efficient chat model to rival American competitors' such as ChatGPT. So who is winning the AI war? Or are the battle lines only just being drawn?

Iran is facing a changed Middle East as it marks the anniversary of the Islamic revolution. With weakened allies and growing tensions with Israel and the United States, how will Iran’s leadership approach the year ahead?

"When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich." The quote by French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, which summed up the spirit of the French Revolution, is now trending online - with many demanding social justice be achieved through whatever means are necessary.

Pulitzer Prize winning author Nathan Thrall joins Centre Stage to talk about how his experiences, working and living in Israel, Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, drove him to write, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama. Witnessing first hand the discrimination and subjugation of Palestinians, Thrall tells Al Jazeera presenter Tom McRae about Israel’s decades-long system of apartheid and why he still has hope for the future.

How can African art be reclaimed and re-defined so that African voices are amplified? Like in many other fields, people from the continent have been overlooked or underrepresented in the art world. So how can that change?  In this episode of Now You Know, we chat with Adora Mba from ADA Contemporary Art Gallery in Ghana. She tells us about her mission to showcase emerging African artists and reshape Western perceptions of Africa through art.