The News Roundup For April 18, 2025

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is the big name in the news this week as he remains imprisoned in El Salvador. A U.S. District judge chastised the Department of Justice for not following her order to facilitate his release.

Meanwhile, America's top diplomat says time is running out for US-led talks to find a path of peace in Ukraine.

Those remarks from Paris follow Russian airstrikes that killed dozens and injured more than 100 people in Sumy, Ukraine, mid-morning on Palm Sunday. It's the deadliest attack in the country's invasion this year.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said his country's troops will not leave established buffer zones in Gaza after the war ends.

And this week, the rebel group fighting the Sudanese army for power announced that it has formed its own government.

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