South Korea says Pyongyang is reportedly preparing for ‘additional deployment of soldiers’ to aid Russia’s war efforts. More than 1,000 North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded in Russia’s war with Ukraine, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) has said. The ...

UN’s Lazzarini says world must not become ‘numb’ after Israeli strikes kill about 50 Palestinians within 24 hours. Israel pounded Gaza overnight with deadly attacks targeting displaced people in two camps and a school, as it ordered the forced evacuation of one of the last hospitals ...

United States President Donald Trump has pushed back on the notion that he has “ceded the presidency” to billionaire Elon Musk, who has taken an outsized role in the president-elect’s transition into the White House. Trump made the comments during a speech in Arizona on Sunday, days after ...

Russia accuses Ukraine of ‘massive’ drone attack that hit a luxury apartment block in the city, some 1,000km (620 miles) from the frontier. Russian President Vladimir Putin has pledged retaliation after Ukrainian drones struck residential buildings in the city of Kazan in Russia’s ...

Each year, the sporting world remembers the passing of current superstar athletes and long-retired legends, each of whom impacted their respective sport in unique ways. Al Jazeera chronicles the sporting life of five of the highest-profile names who departed in 2024: Franz Beckenbauer ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday pledged to “stop the transgender lunacy” on day one of his presidency, as Republicans — set to control both chambers of Congress and the White House — continue their push against LGBTQ rights. “I will sign executive orders to ...

By Matthew Atungwu A Ukrainian town, Kyiv, on Saturday staged a major drone attack on the Russian city of Kazan, 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) from the frontier. It was gathered that this is the ...

The government’s decision comes after a 14-year-old boy was stabbed to death by a classmate following a social media fight. Albania has announced a ban on TikTok for one year after the killing of a teenager last month raised concerns over the influence of social media on children. ...

Huge sale likely to go through despite ongoing concerns over Egyptian government’s human rights breaches. The United States State Department has approved the potential sale of more than $5bn in arms for Egypt. The State Department informed Congress on Friday that it had approved the ...

By Ogaga Ariemu United States Senator for Kentucky, Rand Paul, has endorsed Elon Musk as the next Speaker of the House. Senator Paul hinted this in a statement on his official X account on Thursday. According to him, the speaker ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed on Wednesday the United States’ first “severe” human case of H5N1 avian influenza—or bird flu, a zoonotic infection which has stoked fears of becoming the next global pandemic. The severe case involves a resident of southwestern ...

By Chris Johnson Russia’s security services have detained a 29-year-old man from Uzbekistan in connection with the assassination of Lt Gen Igor Kirillov, head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Forces. Kirillov, ...

Twenty Democrats call for upholding US laws that prohibit arming countries that block humanitarian assistance. Washington, DC – Twenty Democratic legislators in the United States have urged the administration of President Joe Biden to halt the transfer of offensive weapons to Israel, ...

Health authorities said the disease presents in the form of a respiratory illness. A previously unknown disease making the rounds in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a severe form of malaria, the country’s health ministry has announced. Health authorities on Tuesday said ...

Lieutenant General Kirillov killed outside an apartment building in the Russian capital. A bomb hidden in an electric scooter has killed a senior general in charge of nuclear protection forces in Moscow, Russia’s investigative committee said. Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, who ...

In Senegal, a country bustling with French-owned businesses and nationals, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s recent announcement that France should shut down its military bases should have come as a surprise. Yet, analysts say, it was a move that was always going to come. In November, Faye ...

The United Nations will convene a technical committee of Libyan experts in an attempt to resolve contentious issues and put the country on the path to long-awaited national elections, the acting head of the UN mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said on Sunday. A political process to resolve more ...

Move comes days after rebel groups toppled Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, weeks before Donald Trump becomes US president again. Israel’s government has approved a plan to increase the number of settlers in the illegally occupied Golan Heights, days after seizing more Syrian territory ...

DRC presidency says talks had hit deadlock over a Rwandan demand that the DRC hold direct dialogue with M23. Peace talks between the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to end the conflict in the eastern DRC have been called off, according to the Angolan ...

By Chris Johnson Authorities in New Mexico, USA, have charged a 16-year-old boy with four counts of first-degree murder after he called 911 to report killing his family early Saturday morning. The teenager contacted emergency services at 3:32 a.m., ...

A mayor in Mexico’s central San Luis Potosi state, who was a member of the ruling Morena party, was shot dead on Sunday along with three other people, local authorities said. Jesus Eduardo Franco, mayor of Tancanhuitz municipality, and the three other victims were all ...

By Chris Johnson Cyclone Chido has claimed at least 14 lives on the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, according to a security source. The death toll, described as provisional, could rise further as rescue efforts ...

Indications that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could be ready to agree to end the assault on Gaza that has killed 44,800 people – with thousands more lost under the rubble and presumed dead – could raise hopes of an end to the war. After meeting with Netanyahu this week, United ...

Here is the situation on Saturday, December 14: Fighting Russia hammered Ukrainian energy facilities in an aerial attack that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described as one of the largest yet on the ailing grid and evidence of why Kyiv needed more Western support before any peace with ...

Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo – Just four months after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global health emergency over mpox – which has overwhelmed health systems in Democratic Republic of the Congo this year –  a new mystery flu-like illness that’s killed dozens of ...

Outgoing Biden administration eager to fast-track more packages before aid-sceptic Trump takes office early next year. The United States will give $500m in military aid to Ukraine as part of an 11th-hour push by outgoing President Joe Biden to bolster the country’s defences before he ...

Brazilian president is doing well and should be discharged early next week, his medical team says. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has undergone a second surgical procedure after seeking treatment this week for an intracranial haemorrhage, his medical team said. Lula’s ...

The Federal Government has called the bluff of the President-elect of the United States of America, Donald Trump, after he threatened to sanction countries that embraced BRICS. In October, Nigeria emerged as a partner country of BRICS. This is a move towards becoming a ...

South Korean lawmakers vote Saturday on whether to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed martial law bid, in a second parliamentary showdown that remains too close to call. Protests demanding Yoon step down kicked off around midday outside the National ...

Palestinian authorities have said that at least 33 people were killed in an Israeli strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, as Israel continues to conduct devastating attacks across the strip. The Government Media Office in Gaza called the Thursday attack a “barbaric and ...

Hospital says that the Brazilian leader is doing well as he prepares for his second surgery of the week following a fall at home. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is set to undergo a second medical procedure to address bleeding on the surface of his brain, according to ...

Month-long search for Ryan Borgwardt after faked death in Wisconsin cost $35,000, law enforcement officials say. A man in the United States who faked his drowning before fleeing to Eastern Europe has returned home and is set to face charges, according to authorities. Ryan Borgwardt ...

Here is the situation on Wednesday, December 11: Military Ukraine’s National Police said four people were killed and 19 injured in a Russian missile attack on a private medical clinic in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said a kamikaze ...

After the fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, Israel has been encroaching on its neighbour’s territory. Since al-Assad’s dramatic flight to Russia on Sunday, Israel has attacked Syria more than 400 times and, despite UN protests, launched a military incursion into the buffer zone that has ...

In a scene right out of Black Mirror, police in China have rolled out the newest innovation in autonomous AI-powered street crime fighting: A spherical, virtually indestructible, amphibious, heavily armed device that resembles a giant bowling ball. The RT-G, manufactured by Shenzhen-based ...

Israeli forces also bomb weapons depots in southern Syria and the capital Damascus, Israeli media reports. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he ordered Israeli forces to “seize” a buffer zone in the occupied Golan Heights established by a 1974 ceasefire agreement with Syria, after a ...

United States President-elect Donald Trump has announced plans to deport all immigrants in the United States illegally over his upcoming four-year term. In an interview aired Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press, Trump detailed his vision for a broad crackdown on illegal ...

Syria’s ousted president Bashar al-Assad and his family are in Moscow, a Kremlin source told Russian news agencies, hours after he fled the country as Islamist-led rebels entered Damascus. The announcement comes as Russia, a key Assad ally, called for an emergency meeting of the UN ...

The strike comes as Gaza’s health system is collapsing amid repeated attacks by the Israeli military. Israel killed at least 26 people and injured more than 60 – including children and women – in an air strike on a home in the Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, according ...

Halhul, occupied West Bank – Like kids the world over, Naji al-Baba dreamed of becoming an international football player, “just like Ronaldo”. But – like his name, which means “survivor” – that was not to be the fate of a boy born in the occupied West Bank. Tall for a 14-year-old, Naji ...

By Amos Tauna The World Bank announced it has raised about $24 billion to provide loans and grants for some of the world’s poorest nations that it can leverage to generate a record $100 billion in total spending power. Known as the International ...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres calls for de-escalation, warns tens of thousands in Syria are at risk. Hezbollah’s secretary-general Naim Qassem has pledged the Lebanese group will stand by the Syrian government amid an advance by “terrorist groups” trying to sow chaos in the ...

Cryptocurrency surges to new high after Paul Atkins is nominated to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. Bitcoin has topped $100,000 for the first time, buoyed by United States President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to nominate a cryptocurrency advocate to lead the country’s ...

Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham, London, Prof. James Tooley, has been suspended, after allegations of an affair with a young woman from Hyderabad, India. The woman, now in her 20s, claims she had a sexual relationship with the now 65-year-old professor. Tooley has denied the ...

Mexico has announced its largest-ever seizure of the synthetic opioid fentanyl, as cross-border pressure mounts for the country to crack down on drug trafficking into the United States. In a statement on Wednesday, Omar Garcia Harfuch, Mexico’s secretary of security and citizen protection, ...

The EU proposal to scan all your private communications to halt the spread of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is back on regulators' agenda – again. What's been deemed by critics as Chat Control has seen many twists and turns since the European Commission presented the first version of the ...

The surprise assault on the Syrian city of Aleppo by opposition forces on Wednesday appears to have caught the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad and his allies, as well as much of the world, off guard. Currently, as the Syrian and Russian air forces pound opposition forces in northwest ...

If Democrats want to understand one of the reasons the Republican Party is ascendant, they can look to President Joe Biden’s pardon on Sunday for his son Hunter. In its rank mendacity, political hypocrisy, naked self-dealing and wretched example, it typifies so much of what so many ...

Republicans hold a 220-215 majority in House of Representatives but will have to deal with three early vacancies. Washington, DC – Democrats have won the last race to be called in the United States House of Representatives, leaving their Republican rivals with a razor-thin majority in ...

United States President Joe Biden is visiting Angola this week on his first-ever bilateral trip to Africa as president – weeks before he leaves the post to Donald Trump. Biden is set to arrive in the Angolan capital, Luanda, on Monday, after a brief stop in the West African nation of Cape ...