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Here is a rundown of all the news you need to start your Monday with, including US President Donald Trump saying he hopes Russia and Ukraine will make a deal this week to end the war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy proposing a 30-day halt to strikes on civilian infrastructure, and Israeli airstrikes on homes and displacement tents across Gaza killing 28 Palestinians.

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• Trump says he hopes Russia, Ukraine will make deal this week to end war

US President Donald Trump said he hopes Russia and Ukraine will make a deal this week to end the war.

"BOTH WILL THEN START TO DO BIG BUSINESS WITH THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WHICH IS THRIVING, AND MAKE A FORTUNE!" Trump said on his Truth Social platform.

The US, since the inauguration of Trump in January, has been actively involved in diplomatic efforts to end the war, engaging in talks with both Ukraine and Russia.

• Zelenskyy proposes to Russia 30-day halt to strikes on civilian infrastructure

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy proposed to Russia a 30-day halt to strikes on civilian infrastructure.

"Ukraine proposes to cease any strikes using long-range drones and missiles on civilian infrastructure for a period of at least 30 days, with the possibility of extension," Zelenskyy said in a statement on X.

The proposal comes amid a 30-hour unilateral Easter ceasefire declared by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday.

• 28 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes on homes, displacement tents across Gaza

At least 28 Palestinians were killed as Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip targeted residential homes and tents sheltering displaced families, according to medical sources and eyewitnesses.

Nine people, including women and children, were killed when an Israeli airstrike hit a home in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, a medical source told Anadolu.

In the south of the enclave, an Israeli drone targeted a displacement tent in the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis, killing a Palestinian woman and injuring four other people, including children.

NEWS IN BRIEF

• The Kremlin announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin has not ordered the extension of an Easter ceasefire in Ukraine.
• Citing a string of “serious incidents” that resulted in soldiers’ deaths and accidental shootings, Israel’s Chief of General Staff Eyal Zamir ordered a temporary halt to all military training exercises, public broadcaster KAN reported.
• The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court against the Trump administration, alleging the unlawful revocation of legal status for hundreds of international students across the US.
• The Israeli army said it found no evidence of the execution of 15 Palestinian medics in southern Gaza last month.
• A cargo ship carrying wheat docked at the Port of Latakia in northwestern Syria, marking the first such arrival in the country since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime last year.
• Families of Israeli captives in Gaza demonstrated along the border with the Palestinian enclave to demand a prisoner exchange with Palestinians.
• For the second consecutive year, Palestinian Christians marked Easter without joy or festivity as Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank entered their 19th month.
• Seven civilians were killed and three injured in artillery shelling by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur in western Sudan, the army said.
• Lebanon will place all weapons under state control but will wait for the “right conditions” to determine how to execute it, said President Joseph Aoun.

BUSINESS & ECONOMY

• South Korea, US to hold high-level tariff negotiations

South Korea and the US will hold tariff negotiations in Washington this week, with the finance and trade ministers from both countries participating, the South Korean government announced, according to Yonhap News Agency.

Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok and Trade Minister Ahn Duk-geun will lead the South Korean delegation, while US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer will represent the American side.

The South Korean government said the upcoming tariff negotiations were initiated by Washington, and both sides are currently coordinating the meeting’s schedule and agenda.