Global news highlights from AP

August 1, 202

Hamas said Friday that it will begin disarming as part of a deal announced by US President Donald Trump that also requires Israel to end its strikes and withdraw from Gaza.

Hamas also said the deal was contingent on the creation of a Palestinian state, something Israel's current government adamantly rejects.

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Pakistani rescuers have found four bodies Friday while searching for 10 international climbers.

The group went missing after an avalanche struck Broad Peak, one of the world's highest mountains, Thursday.

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The State Department is making permanent a pilot program under which citizens from 50 countries, mainly in Africa, are required to post bonds as much as $20,000 to apply for a US visa.

The notice is to be formally released Monday, the day the program becomes permanent, and additional countries may be added to the list.

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About 60,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into Spain's tiny Ceuta territory in the past 24 hours and at least 57 migrants died on the journey.

But most of the people who made the crossing soon returned voluntarily, the Spanish government said