On the streets of Pakistan’s second biggest city, smog stings eyes and burns throats. Inside homes, few people can afford air purifiers to limit the damage of toxic particles that seep through doors and windows. Lahore, a city of 14 million people stuffed with factories, regularly ranks ...

UN political chief doesn’t name countries providing weapons to army and paramilitary forces, says it’s ‘unconscionable’. The United Nations has said continued weapons supplies to Sudan’s warring military and paramilitary forces are “enabling the slaughter” and must stop, with civilians ...

Russia rains missiles on Kyiv as US Secretary of State Blinken pledges Biden government will do what it can for Ukraine before leaving office. United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has pledged to strengthen support for Ukraine before the end of Joe Biden’s presidency in ...

As the war enters its 992nd day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Wednesday, November 13: Fighting Ukraine shot down 46 of 110 Russian drones launched overnight, the Ukrainian Air Force said. An additional 60 Russian drones were lost in Ukrainian airspace ...

In picking Fox News Channel host Pete Hegseth to lead the Department of Defense, President-elect Donald Trump has selected a military veteran and popular conservative media personality with a large following of his own. Hegseth, 44, has developed a close rapport with Trump, who also reportedly ...

Prosecutors sought 17 years imprisonment for ‘significant’ violations of the Espionage Act. Jack Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts National Guard, has been jailed for 15 years for leaking classified documents about the war in Ukraine and other military secrets. A federal judge ...

Dozens of Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza, including a drone strike on a cafe in the al-Mawasi area in the south of the territory which was previously designated a “safe zone” by Israel’s military. An Israeli strike late on Monday hit a makeshift cafeteria used by ...

At least 14 people have been reported killed and 15 others injured following an Israeli air strike on the town of Ain Yaaqoub in the far north of Lebanon. The Israeli missile that hit a building on Monday where 30 people were residing, including Syrian refugees, marked the northernmost ...

Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza calls on international organisations to protect the facility from attacks. At least 30 people have been killed across Gaza by Israeli military attacks as tanks entered the western side of the Nuseirat refugee camp in a new incursion. Health ...

Here is the situation on Monday, November 11: Fighting Russian air attacks killed at least five people in southern Ukraine’s Mykolaiv, regional Governor Vitaly Kim said on Telegram, a day after Moscow and Kyiv launched record overnight drone attacks on each other. One person was ...

There is a “strong likelihood that famine is imminent in areas” of northern Gaza, according to a committee of global food security experts, as Israeli forces press on with a major offensive in the area. “Immediate action, within days not weeks, is required from all actors who are directly ...

Ukrainian authorities issued widespread air raid alerts on Monday after a series of Russian airstrikes killed at least six people in the southern regions of Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia. The Ukrainian Air Force confirmed in a post on Telegram that Russian ...

Police describe escapees, who are not carrying disease, as ‘harmless and a little skittish’, posing ‘almost no danger to public’. More than 40 monkeys escaped from a research lab in a small town in the United States after an employee failed to properly shut an enclosure. The 43 ...

Donald Trump will be serving a second presidential term, and with both chambers of Congress likely under Republican leadership—though the House is still to be decided— the future of education in the U.S. could starkly change. Trump has pledged to dismantle the Department of Education, cut ...

Canada has announced that it will no longer automatically grant 10-year multiple-entry visas to tourists. The new guidelines, released by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), empower immigration officers to issue visas with shorter durations based ...

By Francis Ugwu The Justice Department on Friday said it has thwarted an Iranian plot to kill President-elect, Donald Trump in the leadup to the election. Authorities in a court document filed in federal court in Manhattan alleged that an unnamed official ...

  Focusing her campaign on abortion rights, Kamala Harris believed she had found a winning strategy to attract women voters. But it was Donald Trump who claimed victory, increasing his support among American men — particularly young men. While young people ...

As the war enters its 987th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Friday, November 8: Fighting Russian forces have captured the village of Kreminna Balka in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, Russia’s Defence Ministry said. A Russian-guided bomb attack ...

Zelenskyy was among the first leaders to congratulate Trump, who has criticised the scale of US support for Ukraine. United States President Joe Biden plans to rush billions of dollars in security assistance to Ukraine before he leaves office in January, reports say, hoping to shore up ...

As the dust slowly settles on this election, and Kamala Harris stands before the wreckage of a campaign that failed to win over a single swing state, the Democratic Party and its liberal supporters are eagerly looking for someone, anyone, other than themselves to blame for their catastrophic ...

Plumes of smoke have been seen rising above Beirut as Israel strikes city after forced evacuation orders issued for four southern neighbourhoods. Lebanese armed group Hezbollah has said that it targeted an Israeli military base south of Tel Aviv with a swarm of drones “for the first ...

For the past 13 months, Ahmed Jarad has been living with the dim hope that he might one day return to his home in Beit Lahiya, a village in the north of the Gaza Strip. But on Wednesday, as former US President Donald Trump declared his triumphant return to the White House following a close ...

As the war enters its 985th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Wednesday, November 6: Fighting A Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia has killed six people, injured at least 20 more, and destroyed a critical ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a warning that fake bomb threats are being emailed to US polling locations in multiple states that “appear to originate from Russian email domains.” “None of the threats have been determined to be credible thus far,” the FBI says. The agency ...

Just hours after the polls closed in the 2020 United States presidential election, as millions of votes were still being counted, Donald Trump delivered an extraordinary address. “We were getting ready to win this election – frankly, we did win this election,” the then-president told ...

As the war enters its 984th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Tuesday, November 5: Fighting Ukraine’s air defence units were attempting to repel a Russian air attack on Kyiv in the early hours of Tuesday morning, the city’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, ...

Dearborn, Michigan – On a sunny but frigid afternoon, dozens of protesters stood on a street corner in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn and chanted against Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris as well as her Republican rival Donald Trump. “Trump and Harris, you can’t hide, no ...

With just one day remaining until the US حresidential election, campaigning has hit overdrive. Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and her Republican rival Donald Trump are on a tour of swing states aiming to sway undecided voters. On Sunday, Harris was in Michigan, while Trump focused on ...

Unprecedented air pollution levels prompt authorities to take emergency measures. Pakistan’s second-largest city of Lahore will close primary schools for a week after it saw “unprecedented” pollution levels, government authorities have said. For days, the city of 14 million people ...

By Chris Johnson The Health Ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza reported on Sunday that the death toll in the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict has reached 43,341. This figure includes an additional 27 fatalities recorded in the past 24 ...

Ten-year-old children are supposed to be busy playing with toys, doodling and hanging out with their friends, not writing a will in case they die. “My will, if I become a martyr or pass away: Please do not cry for me, because your tears cause me pain. I hope my clothes will be given to ...

The US presidential candidates campaigned in the key swing state of North Carolina on Saturday, seeking to lock in more votes for the election on Tuesday, November 5. It marked the fourth day in a row that Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump visited the same ...

Russia has previously dismissed allegations it is attempting to interfere in US presidential election. Intelligence agencies in the United States have accused “Russian influence actors” for a video that falsely claimed election fraud was taking place in the battleground state of ...

An internal email obtained by The Associated Press news agency has revealed there was an internal disagreement at the White House over whom United States President Joe Biden referred to as “garbage” earlier this week. On Thursday, The Associated Press reported that it had obtained an email ...

Employees say ‘Israel must be held to account for its actions’ and that failing to do so dehumanises Palestinians. The BBC has been accused by more than 100 of its staff of giving Israel favourable coverage in its reporting of the war on Gaza and criticised its lack of “accurate ...

The takeover is latest chapter in standoff between the Arce government and supporters of ex-president Evo Morales. An armed group in Bolivia has taken over a military post outside the city of Cochabamba while holding some soldiers captive, the armed forces said in a statement, ramping up ...

African Union health watchdog’s chief has said mpox outbreak is ‘still on the upward trend generally’ as cases spread. The African Union’s health watchdog has warned that the mpox outbreak was still not under control and appealed for resources to avoid a “more severe” pandemic than ...

Beirut, Lebanon – Israel’s much-criticised banning of the United Nations Palestinian aid agency (UNRWA) is part of a broader attempt to undermine the rights of Palestinian refugees and expel them from the occupied territories, analysts have told Al Jazeera. The ban on the agency takes ...

Hezbollah’s new leader, Naim Qassem, says that the group will keep fighting in its war with Israel until it is offered ceasefire terms it deems acceptable, as Israeli forces bombarded the ancient eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek and its outskirts following forced evacuation orders. “If the ...

Russia’s military interaction with North Korea does not violate international law, the country’s representative to the United Nations told the UN Security Council, calling reports that North Korean troops were present at the front lines in the war against Ukraine “barefaced lies”. “I would ...

World’s richest man told to be present on Thursday morning but unclear if he will attend. Elon Musk has been ordered to appear in court to respond to a lawsuit over $1m payments made by the billionaire’s political campaign group to voters in the US election’s battleground states. ...

Climate change is raising temperatures to dangerous levels, causing more deaths and the spread of infectious diseases, while worsening drought and food security, a new report by health experts has warned. In 2023 – the hottest year on record – the average person experienced 50 more days of ...

The exercise involved Russia’s full nuclear “triad” of ground-, sea- and air-launched missiles Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched an exercise of the country’s nuclear forces featuring missile launches in a simulation of a retaliatory strike amid soaring tensions with the ...

The Israeli Knesset has passed a bill banning UNRWA from operating in Israel and another that will likely scale back aid distribution across war-ravaged Gaza. UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) supports Palestinian refugees in Gaza and ...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has rallied his Make America Great Again (MAGA) base at a rally in New York City, again vowing to crack down on migration while slamming his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris. Trump repeatedly attacked migrants during his speech at Madison ...

Samples have been taken to identify the bodies of the migrants and refugees ‘due to the extent of decomposition’. The bodies of 16 migrants and refugees have been recovered by Tunisia’s coastguard off the country’s eastern coast, the National Guard says, the latest migrant boat disaster ...

Doha, Qatar – Israel’s Mossad spy chief and the CIA director have travelled to the Qatari capital, Doha, to attend the first high-level talks since ceasefire efforts aimed at ending the war in Gaza broke down in August. David Barnea and William Burns are expected to meet Qatari Prime Minister ...

Hundreds of United States election ballots have been ruined after two drop boxes were destroyed – one in Oregon and one in Washington state – in incidents that authorities believe are linked. One of the boxes was targeted in Portland, Oregon in the early hours of Monday, and a few hours later, ...

UN chief Antonio Guterres says the levels of death and injury in north Gaza are ‘harrowing’ and calls plight of Palestinians ‘unbearable’. Israeli attacks have killed more than 50 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip in less than a day, most of them in the north of the enclave which has ...

Pressure is mounting on Netanyahu’s administration to secure a deal for the release of the remaining captives held in Gaza. Israeli protesters have interrupted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech during a memorial to remember the victims of the October 7 attack as the ...