ByteDance said US government prefers to shut down than work on an ‘effective solution’ to protect US users. TikTok and Chinese parent ByteDance have urged a United States court to strike down a law they say will ban the popular short video app in the US on January 19 next year. In ...

Initiative announced in Paris will incentivise and offset start-up costs for vaccine manufacturing in the continent. French President Emmanuel Macron has joined several African leaders to kick off a planned $1.1bn project to accelerate vaccine production in Africa, after the COVID-19 ...

As the war enters its 846th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Thursday, June 20, 2024. Fighting At least two people were injured and residential buildings were damaged in Ukraine’s western region of Lviv after a wave of Russian drone attacks targeting ...

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has issued a stern warning to Israel, threatening a war with “no restraint and no rules and no ceilings” in case of a major Israeli offensive against Lebanon. Nasrallah’s remarks on Wednesday come amid soaring tensions at the Lebanon-Israel border after ...

Hundreds of thousands of people are stranded by flash floods and heavy rains with the country’s refugee camps for Rohingya Muslims being the most affected. Heavy monsoon rains have triggered landslides in Bangladesh and India, killing at least 15 people, injuring several others and ...

A report finds nuclear powers have increased spending on a scale never seen before. A report by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons shows spending on such munitions has ballooned. Nearly $100bn has been spent by the world’s nine nuclear-armed nations in a single year. ...

The United Kingdom, UK is grappling with a shortage of bricklayers and other construction workers, causing prolonged delays for homeowners seeking building services. Since 2021, a staggering 415,000 people have experienced over a year-long wait to secure a builder, according to a national ...

President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno says there have been deaths and injuries but does not specify the number. An unknown number of people have been killed and injured after a fire triggered a series of blasts at a military ammunition depot in Chad’s capital N’Djamena. The fire began ...

By Jim Ochetenwu The Senate in Thailand on Tuesday passed the same-sex bill, thereby legalising gay marriage in the country. Earlier in March, the lower House approved the bill with only 10 of the 415 sitting lawmakers voting against it. When the bill finally becomes law, as it appears sure to ...

The top United Nations human rights official has warned of the worsening situation for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the “unconscionable death and suffering” in the Gaza Strip. “The situation in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is dramatically deteriorating,” Volker ...

North Korea has been reinforcing the border since abandoning a military agreement with South Korea last November. South Korea’s military has said that between 20 and 30 North Korean soldiers crossed the border between the two countries early on Tuesday, but returned after South Korean ...

Chinese and Philippine ships collided again in the disputed South China Sea on Monday, ratcheting up tensions and prompting the U.S. to condemn Beijing for “irresponsible actions” causing bodily injury. China’s navy, coast guard and maritime militia vessels engaged in “dangerous maneuvers, ...

UN agencies say 64 people are missing after shipwrecks off the coast of southern Italy. At least 11 people have died and 64 others are missing after two shipwrecks off southern Italy, according to a German charity, the Italian coast guard and United Nations agencies. The German aid ...

If convicted after his extradition, Nikhil Gupta faces up to 20 years in prison. The Czech Republic has extradited an Indian man to the United States who is suspected of involvement in an unsuccessful plot to kill a Sikh separatist. Czech Justice Minister Pavel Blazek announced on ...

Heavy rains have affected areas across Central and South America in the past few days. At least six people have been killed and 19 others injured in Ecuador after heavy rainstorms triggered a landslide. The deadly mudslide occurred on Sunday in the city of Banos de Agua Santa in ...

After rejecting a ceasefire for months in Israel’s war on Gaza, the Biden administration wants to see an end to the fighting. How “permanent” is the US/Israeli plan for a “permanent ceasefire” in Gaza? The intentional vagueness of the proposal to bring a “sustainable period of calm” to the ...

As the war enters its 843rd day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Monday, June 17, 2024. Fighting Seven people, including two young boys, were injured in a Russian attack on the village of Nova Poltavka village in the eastern Donetsk region, according to ...

Hamas fighters killed eight Israeli soldiers traveling in military vehicles in Rafah after firing rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and then ambushing a support force deployed to the scene. The attacks on Saturday marked one of the deadliest days for Israeli soldiers in Gaza in months as ...

Fasano, Italy – This year’s G7 summit bore the hallmarks of a fragile club, yet one that still manages to put up a good fight when it comes to shielding Western interests. On Saturday, the leaders of what were once the wealthiest countries in the world concluded the three-day G7 summit in ...

New Delhi, India – Every morning before stepping out of his rented accommodation in New Delhi, India, gig worker Aman fills three plastic bottles with water from a small earthen pot and packs them with some leftover food inside a sling bag. To support his family, in 2018 the 26-year-old moved ...

Supreme Court rules prohibition on device that increases the firing rate of semi-automatic weapons is unlawful. The United States Supreme Court declared a federal ban on “bump stock” devices that enable semiautomatic weapons to fire rapidly unlawful, rejecting yet another firearms ...

Advocates say Canada’s first environmental justice law will help chart scale of problem, address negative health impact. Environmental and social justice advocates in Canada have welcomed a new bill that pledges to develop a national strategy to prevent and address the effects of ...

The G7 group of countries announced a plan on Thursday to use frozen Russian assets to finance a $50bn loan for Ukraine as Kyiv continues its desperate campaign to stop its bigger neighbour’s forces from advancing further, 28 months into Moscow’s war. The announcement came as leaders of ...

The first group of seven horses arrived in Kazakhstan in early June and a further 40 are planned for the next five years.  Przewalski’s horses have returned to the steppes of Kazakhstan after nearly 200 years, part of an ambitious scheme to reintroduce the world’s last wild horses to ...

North Korea has sent containers to Russia that could hold nearly 5 million artillery shells and Russian President Vladimir Putin will likely seek even more when he soon visits Pyongyang, South Korea’s defense minister said. Shin Wonsik said in an interview with Bloomberg News that Seoul has ...

US President Joe Biden said Thursday that he would not pardon his son Hunter or commute any sentence following Hunter’s conviction on charges of lying about his drug addiction while buying a handgun. “No,” Biden replied when reporters at a G7 summit press conference in Italy asked if he would ...

As the war enters its 840th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Friday, June 14, 2024. Fighting The Ukrainian military said its forces were fighting fierce battles near Chasiv Yar, a strategic hilltop settlement in Donetsk, and the situation was ...

How many teams are playing in Euro 2024 and what’s the format? Al Jazeera answers your questions. Euro 2024, the 17th edition of the European Championship, will kick off in Germany on June 14. Euro 2024 marks the return of the competition to its usual four-year cycle after the ...

Jurors deliberated for less than an hour before leaving the federal courthouse in Delaware Monday afternoon. They are weighing ... source

Eight former engineers accuse CEO Elon Musk of overseeing a ‘pervasively sexist culture’ at the rocket company. Eight former SpaceX engineers have filed a lawsuit accusing the rocket company and its CEO Elon Musk of firing them for raising concerns about the treatment of female ...

The move comes as President Emmanuel Macron seeks alliance against France’s far right before upcoming elections. France’s conservative Republicans party says it has removed leader Eric Ciotti for trying to strike an electoral alliance with the far-right National Rally (RN) of Marine Le ...

By Sunny Green Itodo American rapper Enchanting has passed away at the age of 26. The former 1017 Records artist was transferred to ICU last night after she allegedly suffered cardiac arrest from an overdose. A representative of the rapper confirmed her death on Tuesday. “She came to my house ...

As the war enters its 838th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Wednesday, June 12, 2024. Fighting Ihor Terekhov, the mayor of Ukraine’s second-largest city Kharkiv, said the number of Russian attacks on the city had fallen since Ukraine’s army struck ...

UN migration agency says 7.26 million people have fled their homes since war broke out in April 2023, while 2.83 million were already displaced by previous wars. More than 10 million people have been displaced within war-torn Sudan, according to the latest figures released by the ...

Karim Khan’s appeal comes after escalating violence in and around el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur. The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor has appealed to witnesses to send evidence to aid an urgent investigation opened by his office into allegations of war ...

The 12 jurors deliberated for about an hour after closing arguments. They will resume at 9am ET (13:00 GMT) on Tuesday. The jury has begun deliberations in the case of Hunter Biden, the son of United States President Joe Biden, accused of lying about his use of illegal drugs when he bought a ...

British unemployment has risen further and earnings growth remains elevated, according to official data published on Tuesday. The UK unemployment rate rose to 4.4 percent in the three months to the end of April, up from 4.3 percent in the three months to the end of March, the Office for National ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in the Middle East on his latest trip to the region, which he said will focus on Washington’s Gaza truce proposal and the future of the Palestinian territory after the war. Blinken met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Cairo on Monday, ...

Taipei, Taiwan – Hundreds of foreign delegates were in Taipei last month to watch William Lai Ching-te sworn in as Taiwan’s fifth elected president. Beijing, which claims the democratic island as its own, has branded Lai a “separatist” and “troublemaker” but that did not stop as many as ...

US says it is ‘incidental’ that deadly Israeli operation took place near floating dock built to deliver aid to Gaza. The United States has stressed that its temporary aid pier in Gaza was not used in the Israeli captive rescue operation in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza that ...

Benny Gantz, the Israeli prime minister’s principal rival, has quit the government. What now? Not as much as you might think. Former general and leader of Israel’s National Unity party Benny Gantz has resigned from the war cabinet, citing the failure of the wider cabinet to agree a ...

The victory was Verstappen’s sixth of the season, extending his lead in the F1 Drivers’ Championship to 56 points. Red Bull’s triple world champion Max Verstappen has completed a Canadian Grand Prix hat-trick of victories on a wet, wild and tricky race at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. ...

Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier has the latest on reports the Trump campaign has begun 'serious vetting' on Doug ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffp8R0D0xfM source

Michael Mosley had set off on a walk in a mountainous area in Greece on Wednesday afternoon. A days-long search for missing British television presenter Michael Mosley has led to the recovery of a body on a Greek island, according to local authorities. A police spokesman, who spoke ...

The United States and France have both reaffirmed support for Ukraine in its battle against Russia’s invasion during a meeting in the French capital. Speaking at a joint news conference at the Presidential Elysee Palace in Paris on Saturday, President Joe Biden warned that Vladimir Putin ...

Israeli strikes on Saturday killed two people and sparked wildfires in southern Lebanon, state media said, with Hezbollah announcing the death of one fighter. Hezbollah has traded near-daily fire with Israeli forces in the eight months since the Gaza war began in October. The deadly ...

Former President Trump joins 'Hannity' to converse about President Biden's border executive order and the abortion issue ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGaUDJhPXdA source

The 17th edition of the European Championship will be held in Germany from June 14 to July 14, as 24 teams compete for the title. Italy, led by goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma, will look to defend the crown they won three years ago. Last edition’s finalists England will be captained by ...

UN says it is ‘pursuing all available channels’ to secure the safe release of its personnel ‘as soon as possible’. Yemen’s Houthi group is detaining at least 11 United Nations personnel, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric has said, calling for the staff’s unconditional release. ...

The United Nations is adding Israel to its so-called “blacklist” of countries that have committed abuses against children in armed conflict, an Israeli diplomat has confirmed, as thousands of Palestinian children have been killed in the Israeli military’s continued assault on the Gaza Strip. ...