International News from Friday, February 21st, 2025

Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally gunning down health insurance executive Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street in December, is due in court in New York on Friday afternoon as he faces state murder and terrorism charges.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that Israel would make Hamas pay for failing to release the body of hostage Shiri Bibas as agreed.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the military to carry out an "intensive" operation in the West Bank after explosions on buses close to Tel Aviv on Thursday, in what Netanyahu's office described as an attempted mass attack.

The Israeli military said on Friday that one of the bodies released by Hamas did not belong to any of the hostages held in Gaza, accusing Hamas of violating an already shaking ceasefire.

Staff at the US Internal Revenue Service were told on Thursday that about 6,000 employees would be fired, in a move that would eliminate roughly six per cent of the agency's workforce in the midst of the busy tax-filing season.