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Three Israeli hostages arrive in Israel

The freed hostages are Israeli-Russian Alexander Troufanov, Israeli-Argentine Yair Horn and and Israeli-American Sagui Dekel-Chen.

Alexander Troufanov, Yair Horn and Sagui Dekel-Chen have been released on Saturday morning by Hamas in exchange for more than 360 Palestinians held in Israeli custody, the sixth such swap of the Israel-Gaza ceasefire. The three men released are dual foreign-nationals from Russia, America and Argentina.

Also in the programme: Victoria Amelina was a well-known Ukrainian novelist and children's writer - until Russia's full-scale land invasion in 2022. She was killed by a Russian missile that hit a pizzeria in Kramatorsk in Donetsk in June 2023. Her friends and colleagues have helped to finish the book she was writing at the time of her death.

And The New Yorker magazine is turning 100 years old this month. It's a mixture of political deep dives, profiles and essays, art and even poetry.

To discuss this and more, Georgina Wright is the Resident Senior Fellow and Deputy Director for International Studies at Institut Montaigne in Paris and Aanu Adeoye is the West and Central Africa correspondent for the Financial Times based in Lagos.

CREDIT PHOTO: Hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel / Reuters

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