Police in Kenya have fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters aiming to keep pressure on President William Ruto after he made a series of concessions to demonstrators. Activists behind weeks of protests that were initially sparked by proposed tax hikes called for a “total shutdown” of ...

Musk’s donations will go to a group dubbed America PAC, which will support Trump’s re-election by focusing on voter registration, early voting and mail-in ballots among residents in swing states. Tech billionaire Elon Musk has said he plans to donate approximately $45m each month to a ...

An Australian politician has called for the deportation of Tenacious D, the comedy-rock duo of Kung Fu Panda actors Jack Black and Kyle Gass, after Gass apparently made remarks wishing for the death of former U.S. President Donald Trump onstage during a concert in Sydney on Sunday, less than 24 ...

US President Joe Biden’s campaign on Monday dismissed Donald Trump’s newly-unveiled running mate J.D. Vance as a “far-right MAGA extremist.” “Vance is a 2020 election denier, supports a national abortion ban, and voted against IVF access,” Biden’s team said. The president said Vance “talks a ...

By Francis Ugwu Former President Donald Trump named his running mate on Monday, a highly anticipated and high-stakes announcement as the Republican National Convention kicked off in Wisconsin. His name is Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio State, United States of America. Here are some important ...

Crypto stocks, gun stocks and shares of other companies that could benefit from a Donald Trump presidency are up after an assassination attempt on the Republican candidate boosted expectations he would win the November election. Trump’s survival after he was shot in the ear during a rally in ...

It was a shot heard round the world – but most of all by presidential candidate Donald Trump, the victim of Saturday’s assassination attempt at a presidential rally in the US state of Pennsylvania. A bullet grazed Trump’s right ear as he was filling the audience in on his plans to make ...

By Seun Opejobi The United States Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, identified Thomas Mathew Crooks as the shooter in the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Crooks attempted to assassinate Trump during the latter’s campaign rally in Butler, ...

Palestinians call a general strike in solidarity with people in Gaza in the wake of Israeli attack on safe zone that killed at least 90 people. Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are observing a general strike in protest against Israel’s war on Gaza, denouncing Saturday’s attack on ...

Deir el-Balah, Gaza – When Spain take the field at Berlin’s Olympic Stadium for their Euro 2024 final against England on Sunday, they will be cheered on by millions of fans around the world. From the capital Madrid in central Spain to Barcelona in the northeastern Catalonia region, the La ...

President Joe Biden has issued a statement following the shooting incident at former President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Pennsylvania. The disturbance, which occurred as Trump began his final rally before the Republican party convention, led to the former president being rushed off stage by ...

President Joe Biden said something interesting at his rare news conference Thursday when he was asked if delegates pledged to support him at the Democratic National Convention have his blessing to support another candidate. “They’re free to do whatever they want,” Biden said. The president noted ...

An eyewitness has narrated how some eyewitness saw a man with a rifle on the rooftop of a building close to the campaign rally venue and reported the unusual sight to the police but “they were slow to respond and they allow Trump to speak” A man with a rifle could be seen on a rooftop minutes ...

Former United States President Donald Trump has been shot in the ear during a campaign rally in an attack that drew condemnation from leading Republicans and Democrats and is being investigated as an assassination attempt. The shooting on Saturday streaked blood across Trump’s face and set ...

Donald Trump has been rushed off the stage at a rally in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd. Mr Trump was showing off a chart of border crossing numbers when bangs started ringing out. The ex-president could be seen reaching with his right hand towards his neck ...

By Francis Ugwu At least 71 Palestinians have reportedly been killed in an Israeli strike on a displacement camp in southern Gaza. But Israel said it targeted Hamas’ military chief, who was an alleged mastermind of the October 7 attacks. Footage from Al-Mawasi shows bodies in the street and ...

Who: Spain vs England What: Euro 2024 semifinals Where: BVB Stadion in Dortmund, Germany When: 9pm (19:00 GMT) kickoff on Saturday, July 14 How to follow: Al Jazeera will bring you live text commentary of the game with build-up starting four hours before kickoff When Spain meet England ...

Al-Mawasi, where thousands of displaced Palestinians are sheltering, has been targeted numerous times since October. More than 50 Palestinians have been killed and many are wounded in Israeli military strikes on al-Mawasi, located west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, medical ...

The report stated that the military was unprepared and slow to respond to the attack while fighting was uncoordinated. The Israeli military has acknowledged it did not protect the community of Kibbutz Be’eri during the Hamas-led attack on October 7, in its first investigation into its ...

Anchorage, Alaska — A U.S. Coast Guard cutter on routine patrol in the Bering Sea came across several Chinese military ships in international waters but within the U.S. exclusive economic zone, officials said. The crew detected three vessels approximately 124 miles (200 kilometers) north of the ...

Where is Gaza? Gaza is a coastal strip of land roughly twice the size of Washington, DC. It runs along the Mediterranean, surrounded on three sides by Israel and one end bordering Egypt’s Sinai. What’s the population? About 2.3 million people. Many are descendants of Palestinians who ...

By Sunny Green Itodo Former US President and Republican Party candidate, Donald Trump, has lambasted actor, George Clooney, for urging President Joe Biden to resign as the Democratic Party’s candidate in the upcoming election. Clooney had written an essay saying Biden should drop out of the race ...

At 5pm at the Victoria Falls border post, Margaret Tshuma – who has a 24-hour day pass to be in Zambia – is in a rush to return home to Zimbabwe before dusk. This is not the first time Tshuma, 53, has travelled from her rural home in Diki village, 120km (75 miles) away, to cross into Zambia ...

A Democratic senator on Wednesday called on US President Joe Biden to ditch his reelection bid, capping a brutal day that saw mounting pressure from high-profile actor and donor George Clooney and party heavyweight Nancy Pelosi. As the 81-year-old tried to show his leadership credentials ...

Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli publicly supported far-right candidate Marine Le Pen before France’s parliamentary vote. French President Emmanuel Macron has denounced “unacceptable” comments made by an Israel minister who publicly promoted far-right candidate Marine ...

By Matthew Atungwu The Israeli army has called on all residents of Gaza City to flee in what observers see as a sign of imminent new military operations. A military spokesman made the appeal posted in Arabic, asking people to leave the city in the north of the Gaza Strip for the towns of Deir ...

US officials and their allies have identified and taken down an artificial intelligence-powered Russian bot farm comprised of almost 1,000 accounts, which spread disinformation and pro-Russian sentiments on X. The Justice Department has revealed the the scheme that was made possible by ...

Beryl has been barreling through the Atlantic for more than a week, fuelled by exceptionally warm waters, and became the earliest Category 5 hurricane. It decimated Caribbean islands like Barbados and Jamaica, with a pair of islands in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines almost entirely ...

Democratic Party lawmakers have met privately to discuss United States President Joe Biden’s crisis-stricken re-election bid as questions continue to swirl around the president’s physical and mental fitness. The closed-door talks on Tuesday highlighted ongoing divisions within the party ...

A court in Russia ordered the arrest of the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny during a hearing Tuesday that was conducted in absentia as part of a sweeping Kremlin crackdown on the opposition. Yulia Navalnaya, who lives abroad, would face arrest if and when she returns to Russia. ...

The Chamber of Progress, a tech industry coalition, has called on President Joe Biden to support comprehensive crypto regulation, framing it as a crucial step in his administration's bid to engage young voters ahead of the upcoming U.S. presidential election. In a letter on Tuesday, the ...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will appoint a senior representative in Ukraine’s capital to deepen ties to the war-torn country, a senior United States official has said, as world leaders gather for a NATO summit in Washington, DC. Speaking at a summit defence industry event ...

Israeli forces ramped up attacks on areas across the northern Gaza Strip despite new ceasefire discussions taking place. At least 50 people were killed in the latest 24-hour reporting period and dozens wounded in strikes throughout the besieged coastal enclave, Gaza’s Ministry of Health ...

Jillian Segal will serve a three-year term and report directly to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Australia has appointed a special envoy to combat anti-Semitism amid concerns that the war in Gaza is fuelling community tensions. Jillian Segal, a Jewish lawyer and ...

Last month, it was revealed that the Samsung workers' union had decided to go on a three-day strike to demand a pay raise. Yesterday, the workers' union started its strike, and it will continue today, entering its second day. This is the first unionized strike in Samsung's 55-year history. ...

By Matthew Atungwu No fewer than 20 people have been killed and more than 50 injured in waves of Russian missile attacks across Ukraine, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said on Monday. Kiev was among the cities worst impacted with seven dead and at least nine injured, the city administration ...

The study finds factors like diseases will lead to many more indirect deaths in the long run even if the war stops now. The accumulative effects of Israel’s war on Gaza could mean the true death toll could reach more than 186,000 people, according to a study published in the journal ...

The Israeli army ordered the Hannibal Directive – a controversial Israeli military policy aimed at preventing the capture of Israeli soldiers by enemy forces at any cost – on October 7 last year, an investigation by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz has revealed. In a report on Sunday, the ...

The war in Sudan is approaching its 16th month, with tens of thousands of people killed and millions displaced in what international organisations say is the world’s worst displacement crisis. Fighting erupted between forces loyal to the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary ...

Academy St in Cork may seem an unusual location to lead mindfulness sessions for Ukrainian troops on the frontline, but that is exactly what happens behind the doors of Skyfound Mindful Academy. War veteran Oleksandr Sarymsakov founded and runs the business with his wife Maria. In ...

The world’s top-ranked female player continued her grasscourt nightmare at Wimbledon, losing in three sets to Yulia Putintseva. Iga Swiatek has never had much affection for grass and any hope that this year’s Wimbledon would kindle a blossoming love affair for the surface went up in ...

Storm is expected to again reach hurricane strength over Gulf of Mexico after killing at least 11 across the Caribbean. Tropical Storm Beryl is expected to strengthen as it heads towards the US state of Texas, after cutting a deadly trail across the Caribbean. The storm is expected ...

A survey reveals that NHS patients are being left untreated and, in some instances, face solitary deaths due to inadequate staffing of registered nurses during shifts. In 2023, the government introduced a series of restrictions aimed at curbing migration to the UK, which included a prohibition on ...

The British citizens on Thursday, July 4, 2024, trooped out to the polling units to elect members of parliament that will form a new government. In the election, the Labour Party won overwhelmingly to secure 412 seats out of 650 to end the 14-year rule of the Conservatives. Consequently, the ...

BREAKINGBREAKING, Pezeshkian said to be winner of run-off election with 16.3 million votes to Jalili’s 13.5 million, according to reports. Iran’s Masoud Pezeshkian, a heart surgeon and lawmaker who has promised to reach out to the West, has won the country’s presidential run-off ...

Oppositions don’t win elections, received Westminster wisdom tells us. Governments lose them. And in Britain’s July 4 election, the ruling Conservatives lost big. After a 14-year governing streak defined by Brexit, a pandemic, and an astonishing period of political and financial turbulence that ...

It is “shocking” people still use sunbeds frequently some 10 years since laws were passed to limit their use, a HSE public health doctor has said. Anyone using a sunbed before 35 years of age increases their risk of melanoma skin cancer by 75%, Dr Breeda Neville warned. She urged people ...

Tehran, Iran – A giant mural in downtown Tehran is usually a good indication of the mood in Iran. Looking over the bustling Valiasr Square, it displayed ballistic missiles and might when Iran attacked Israel in April. In the days leading up to the run-off presidential election on ...

By Seun Opejobi The White House has dismissed reports that President Joe Biden is considering quitting the presidential race. White House Senior Deputy Press Secretary and Deputy Assistant to the president, Andrew Bates, described the New York Times report as false. Posting on X, Bates wrote: ...

As the war enters its 860th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Thursday, July 4, 2024. Fighting At least five people were killed and dozens injured in a Russian missile and drone attack on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro. At least one ...