TheQatar Investment AuthorityexpectsDonald Trump sreturn to the White House will lead to a boom in US technology deals, Bloomberg

Washington: President Donald Trump s administration has shut down the White House s Spanish language page. As of this week, visitors to

Qatar might be a small country in the gulf region but they have played a critical role in negotiating on high stakes issues the last few years. […]

The Biden administration is putting pressure on a deal before the inauguration, which will see President-elect Donald Trump return to the White House.

The White House announced the arrival of Ryan Corbett and William McKenty in the United States, sharing a photo of their return. These two American citizens were released after being held captive in Taliban prisons for a long period, as part of a prisoner exchange with a Taliban detainee.

(Reuters) -Mediator Qatar has handed Israel and Hamas a "final" draft of a ceasefire and hostage release agreement designed to end the war in Gaza, an official briefed on the negotiations told Reuters on Monday.

Rarely have representatives of current and new presidents of different parties worked together at such a high-stakes moment. But the president and the president-elect didn’t quite share credit.

The two were exchanged for a man arrested in eastern Afghanistan two decades ago who has been serving a life sentence in a California prison.

Negotiators were close to reaching the final details of a ceasefire in Gaza on Wednesday after marathon talks in Qatar, with the U.S. and Egyptian leaders promising to stay in close contact about a deal over the coming hours.

Donald Trump will be sworn in as U.S. president on Monday, ushering in another turbulent four-year term with promises to push the limits of executive power, deport millions of immigrants, secure retribution against his political enemies and transform the role of the U.

In the very last hours of President Joe Biden’s time in office, a prisoner exchange years in the making was finally struck: the Taliban agreed to swap two Americans being held in Afghanistan for one Taliban member serving a life sentence in a US prison.