As the war enters its 884th day, these are the main developments. This is where the war stands on Sunday, July 28, 2024: Fighting A 14-year-old boy was killed and 12 people wounded, six of them children, in Russian shelling in the centre of Glukhiv city in the Sumy region of ...

By Seun Opejobi The United States Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump vowed on Saturday to end World War Three if elected president. The former US president spoke at a Bitcoin event in Nashville, Tennessee. He also warned that America would be crushed if its citizens failed to elect ...

French security forces identified the Ukraine-Iraq and Israel-Mali football matches on Wednesday as high-risk events The head of Iraq's delegation said Olympic chiefs had rejected their request not to display Israel's flag next to Iraq's during the Paris Games. Iraq's men's football ...

Speed of growth of California Park Fire prompts grim comparison’s with 2018 deadly Camp Fire, with ‘firenados’ spotted. A California wildfire has rapidly expanded, forcing thousands of residents to flee in an area that was devastated by the state’s deadliest wildfire six years earlier. ...

The Justice Department late Friday filed its response to TikTok’s civil suit aimed at derailing a law that would force the app to be sold or face a US ban. TikTok’s suit in a Washington federal court argues that the law violates First Amendment rights of free speech. The US response counters that ...

The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders for residents of southern Gaza’s Khan Yunis City on Saturday, after retrieving the bodies of five Israelis and warning of new operations. The United Nations said more than 180,000 Palestinians have already fled fierce fighting in Khan Yunis since ...

United States presidential candidate Donald Trump falsely accused election rival Kamala Harris of being an anti-Semite who plans to allow the murder of newborn babies, in a speech meant to rally religious supporters Friday that quickly went off the rails. The vice president, who is married to a ...

In Gaza, the Israeli military continues on the offensive, and in the United States, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spent the past week courting more support for Israel’s assault on the Palestinian enclave. But that apparently shared purpose does not reflect the reality: a growing ...

On Sunday, voters in the South American nation of Venezuela will take part in what may be one of the most consequential elections in the country’s modern history. After 11 years in power, President Nicolas Maduro is facing steep odds as he seeks a third term against opposition candidate ...

"Octopuses are among the most intelligent creatures in the oceans." Octopus Teacher A few American politicians are taking a stand for octopus-kind by introducing a bill that would ban the commercial farming of the eight-armed mollusc in the United States, while also prohibiting the import of ...

By Matthew Atungwu Former US president, Barack Obama, on Friday said he would endorse Kamala Harris’ bid for the White House. In a post on his X handle, Obama said he, alongside his wife, Michelle, threw their support behind Kamala Harris, adding that she would make good President for the United ...

Two women and six men were released from Ofer Prison and were taken to Al-Aqsa Hospital in Gaza by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society. Eight Palestinian prisoners released by the Israeli military have said they were tortured and threatened in custody. Two women and six men were ...

The climate action group, The Last Generation, is calling on the government to divest from oil, gas and coal by 2030. Germany’s largest airport in Frankfurt was forced to suspend arrivals and departures after a protest by climate activists who blocked runways by glueing themselves to ...

Republican claims Harris is a ‘radical left lunatic’, as Biden praises VP as ‘tough’ and ‘experienced.’ Donald Trump has launched a volley of attacks casting Kamala Harris as a radical extremist, claiming his de facto opponent for the White House has been the “ultraliberal driving ...

Washington, DC – Hours before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at the United States Capitol to deliver a speech to Congress, a woman with a blue scarf concealing her face sat alone on a park bench and waved a Palestinian flag near Union Station in Washington, DC. “We will ...

Canada head coach Bev Priestman apologies to New Zealand, says spying scandal does not represent team’s ‘values’. Canadian women’s football coach Bev Priestman has removed herself from opening match duties at the Paris Olympics while an assistant coach and a team analyst were kicked ...

Saurya Airlines plane carrying two crew members and 17 passengers crashes shortly after takeoff and catches fire. A passenger plane has crashed and caught fire shortly after taking off from Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, killing 18 people, aviation officials say. The pilot was the only ...

South Korean Presidential Security Service says balloon did not contain any dangerous materials. North Korea has floated more trash-carrying balloons across the tense inter-Korean border, with at least one dumping refuse on South Korea’s presidential compound for the first time, South ...

United States Vice President, Kamala Harris, on Tuesday, vowed to put a stop to the abortion ban and help restore reproductive freedoms. “And we who believe in reproductive freedom will stop Donald Trump’s extreme abortion bans because we trust women to make decisions about their own body and not ...

Washington, DC – The rotunda of an office building in the United States Capitol complex filled in minutes with hundreds of people who appeared as if from nowhere, as part of a surprise protest against Israel’s war in Gaza. “Let Gaza live,” they chanted in unison inside the Cannon House ...

Kimberly Cheatle stepping down amid pressure after Donald Trump assassination attempt, US media outlets report. The head of the United States Secret Service is stepping down over the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, US media outlets are reporting. The ...

Residents seen using bare hands to dig through dirt in search of survivors in remote, mountainous area. The death toll from two landslides in southern Ethiopia has risen to more than 100 people, according to government officials, who warned the number could increase. The first ...

Just over 24 hours after President Biden dropped his flagging bid for a second term, his vice president strode into what was now her campaign headquarters to wild applause and hoots of excitement. Campaign staff had already replaced many of the “Biden-Harris” signs plastered on the walls with new ...

Supreme Court suspends order asking restaurants and roadside carts to display owners’ names in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand states. India’s top court has ruled that restaurants cannot be forced to display the names of their owners, suspending police orders in two northern states that ...

Which football teams are playing at the Olympics, when are the games and who are the favourites? Al Jazeera explains. Men’s football has been a regular fixture in every Olympic Games edition, except in 1896 and 1932. As the 2024 Olympics kicks off in Paris, Al Jazeera tells you ...

At least 70 Palestinians have been killed and more than 200 wounded in Israel’s latest assault on the Khan Younis area in southern Gaza as Palestinians fleeing Israeli tank shelling and air strikes have described the situation as “doomsday”. “Due to the Israeli occupation’s attacks and ...

Demonstrators insist they won’t be placated by change in the government job quota system; want curfew lifted, detainees released. Protesters in Bangladesh have issued demands amid a lull in the violence that has filled the streets in recent days after the government backed down on ...

World leaders have offered their reactions to United States President Joe Biden’s decision to end his faltering re-election campaign after weeks of pressure driven by concerns over his age and fitness. Here are some of the reactions to Biden’s exit from around the world: Israel Israeli ...

Student protesters won’t stand down despite the top court reducing quotas for government jobs. After weeks of widespread unrest in Bangladesh, the Supreme Court has changed a controversial quota system for government jobs. It has significantly reduced the share of public sector ...

By Nsikak Nseyen President Joe Biden has endorsed Kamala Harris as his preferred presidential nominee for his party. Biden announced on his official X page on Sunday, shortly after he withdrew from the United States November presidential election. He had said it was in the best interest of his ...

Bangladesh’s Supreme Court has scrapped most of the quotas on government jobs that led to student-led protests in which more than 100 people have been killed, according to local media. The court’s Appellate Division dismissed a lower court order that had reinstated the quotas last month. ...

By John Owen Nwachukwu Israel carried out powerful airstrikes at the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Yemen on Saturday. It came a day after Israeli officials vowed revenge for a drone that struck Tel Aviv. Airstrikes sparked a huge blaze as they hit a refinery and electricity infrastructure. ...

By John Owen Nwachukwu Serhiy Popko, the head of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv’s military administration, has warned residents of the city to stay indoors. This is following multiple missile attacks fired on the capital city by the Russian military. The Guardian, UK, reports that Ukraine’s air defence ...

The strikes triggered a raging fire and plumes of black smoke which could be seen from all across the city Israeli warplanes struck the Houthi-controlled Yemeni port of Hodeida Saturday, killing at least three people and wounding another 87 according to health authorities. It comes a ...

Along the rice fields of Porto Tolle in Veneto, the areas damaged by salt seeping into the soil are clearly visible. It has been caused by both direct irrigation with brackish water and by saltwater rising from the subsoil. In the Po Delta, the problem is particularly bad because the fields ...

  Eton College, one of the most prestigious private boarding schools in the world, has implemented a new policy requiring incoming students to use basic Nokia devices instead of smartphones. Known for educating world leaders and royalty, Eton's alumni, known as Old Etonians, include ...

US President Joe Biden pledged to stay in the White House race Friday, defying a growing Democratic party revolt that raised speculation he could bow out as soon as this weekend. “The stakes are high, and the choice is clear. Together, we will win,” the 81-year-old said in a statement from the ...

Looming health disaster for displaced Palestinians living in tent camps, where sewage flows freely, contaminating water. Poliovirus has been detected in samples of sewage water in the densely populated Gaza Strip, placing “thousands” of Palestinians at risk of contracting the highly ...

Australia’s National Cyber Security Coordinator says it is aware of ‘large-scale technical outage’. Australia has been hit by a major IT outage that has disrupted banks, telecoms, media outlets and airlines. Australia’s National Cyber Security Coordinator said on Friday that it was ...

International Court of Justice says Israel’s policies in the occupied Palestinian territory amounted to annexation. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled that Israel’s continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is unlawful and that it should come to an end ...

By John Owen Nwachukwu Presidential candidate of the Republican, Donald Trump, has promised ‘the largest deportation operation in the history of the United States of America. Trump addressed Republican supporters on Thursday in his formal acceptance of his nomination. Trump noted that the GOP ...

By John Owen Nwachukwu Presidential candidate of the Republican Party for the 2024 election, Donald Trump has accused the Joe Biden administration of creating the Russia-Ukraine war. Trump said he will end every single conflict going on around the globe if he returns as the President of the ...

Former United States President Donald Trump is set to take the stage at the Republican National Convention (RNC), where he will deliver a speech as the party’s standard bearer just five days after surviving an assassination attempt. The address on Thursday night will cap a convention that ...

Rwanda’s Paul Kagame has won a landslide victory in the presidential elections held on July 15. His Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) party also emerged victorious in the legislative vote, retaining its parliamentary majority. With more than 99 percent of the vote in Kagame’s favour, this ...

Firefighters pull 75 people to safety as the investigation into the cause of the blaze is under way. At least 16 people have been killed in a fire at a shopping mall in southwestern China, state media reported. The blaze started in the 14-storey commercial building in the city of ...

Beijing said the US’s weapons sales to Taiwan has ‘compromised the political atmosphere’ for continued talks on nuclear non-proliferation. China has suspended negotiations on nuclear non-proliferation and arms control with the United States in protest against Washington’s arms sales to ...

North African countries seek assistance at Tripoli conference to help stem flow of refugees and migrants. Representatives from 28 African and European countries have met in Libya’s capital, Tripoli, to discuss ways to address irregular migration. In his opening remarks at the ...

US media reports claim that an Iran plan to target Republican presidential hopeful is unrelated to attack in Pennsylvania. Iran has angrily dismissed United States media reports that it has been plotting to assassinate former US President Donald Trump. A foreign ministry spokesman ...

UN condemns Israeli attack that killed children who were reportedly playing outside their home in south Lebanon. Israeli air attacks in southern Lebanon have killed at least five Syrians, including three children, Lebanese media reported, as Israel’s military and the Hezbollah armed ...

Washington, DC – After the Israeli military bombed a school housing displaced people in central Gaza on Tuesday, a young man stood at the chaotic scene with a rocket fragment in his hand. “This is an Israeli American missile,” he said. “We were stepping on corpses. I cannot describe the ...