Former President Donald Trump said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans to meet with him next week—the latest visit from a foreign leader or official as nations grapple with the possibility of the Republican returning to power after November’s election. “He happens to be coming to ...

Tech giant’s announcement comes days after Washington unveiled sanctions against Russian state media. Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, has announced a ban on RT and other Russian state media, citing the outlets’ alleged involvement in foreign interference operations. ...

Dominique Pelicot, 71, admits to drugging his ex-wife so that dozens of other men could rape her and begs for forgiveness. Dominique Pelicot has admitted to drugging his ex-wife and recruiting dozens of strangers to rape her over nearly a decade, and is begging for his family’s ...

Washington, DC – The United States has said it does not want to see further escalation between Israel and Hezbollah after the Lebanese armed group blamed Israel for a series of deadly, coordinated handheld pager blasts. But the administration of US President Joe Biden, which remains ...

By Ochogwu Sunday No fewer than eight persons have been confirmed dead while about 2,750 were seriously injured by exploding handheld pagers across Lebanon. Firass Abiad, the country’s health minister, who confirmed the ugly incident on Tuesday, said more than ...

Tehran, Iran – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has now been in office for a month and a half in one of the most eventful and tumultuous starting periods for a president since the country’s 1979 revolution. Over the past seven weeks, Iran has grappled with rising tensions with Israel — ...

As clashes in Porgera Valley intensify, authorities allow police to use ‘lethal force’ to quell violence. Papua New Guinea has given police permission to use “lethal force” to restore order as shootouts between rival tribes have killed dozens of people. Between 20 and 50 people have ...

Japanese aged 65 or older now account for nearly 30 percent of the population, government data shows. Japan’s elderly population has hit a record high of 36.25 million people, with those aged 65 or older now accounting for almost one-third of Japanese, according to government data. ...

As the war enters its 934th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Monday, September 16, 2024. Fighting At least one person was killed and 42 injured after a Russian-guided bomb struck a multistorey apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest ...

Top US Republican politicians continue to repeat debunked rumours about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Ohio town. Former President Donald Trump’s running mate in the US election, Republican Senator JD Vance, has defended amplifying false stories about migrants stealing and eating ...

Undisputed super middleweight champion Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez outpoints challenger Edgar Berlanga. Mexican superstar Saul “Canelo” Alvarez has retained his unified super middleweight world title with a punishing unanimous decision over Edgar Berlanga in Las Vegas. Alvarez knocked ...

As the war enters its 933rd day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Sunday, September 15, 2024. Fighting At least seven people were killed in Ukraine following Russian shelling in the country’s south, southeast and east, including three in the Zaporizhia ...

BERKELEY — Cal took on San Diego State without five offensive starters and, for most of the first half, played without four regulars on defense. It showed early Saturday night before 35,197 fans at Memorial Stadium. But the Bears got it together to complete an unbeaten pre-conference ...

By Seun Opejobi The Donald Trump campaign on Sunday disclosed that gun shots were fired at the vicinity of the former president and presidential candidate of the Republican. Despite the shots fired, Trump’s campaign said the former president is ...

It is the second such exchange since Ukraine launched a surprise incursion into Russia’s Kursk region on August 6. Russia and Ukraine have exchanged 103 prisoners of war from each side, both countries confirmed, with the United Arab Emirates acting as an intermediary. The Russian ...

President Joe Biden has denounced election-season attacks on the Haitian American community in the United States, calling out Republican leaders for fear-mongering. Speaking on Friday at a White House brunch billed as a “celebration of Black excellence”, Biden warned that Haitian Americans ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the Security Council is an “outdated,” “unfair” and “ineffective system” whose failure to put an end to Israel’s war on Gaza has damaged the credibility of the organisation as a whole. Speaking to Al Jazeera Arabic in an exclusive ...

Ronaldo surpasses 639 million followers on Instagram, 170 million on Facebook, 60 million on YouTube and 113 million on X. Portugal football icon Cristiano Ronaldo has attracted more than one billion followers across his social media accounts, aided by his newly launched YouTube ...

 By Francis Ugwu Experts are saying that Hamza bin Laden, the son of Osama bin Laden, is alive and leading al-Qaeda. Hamza, 34, was previously reported dead in 2019, and reportedly based in Jalalabad, a known terrorist ...

In early February, Anura Kumara Dissanayake visited New Delhi to meet the South Asian giant’s foreign minister, national security adviser and senior diplomats. The 55-year-old Sri Lankan politician is not in government. National People’s Power, the political alliance he leads, isn’t even ...

The attack on al-Jaouni school, which killed more than a dozen Palestinians, has drawn condemnation from the UN and EU. An Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter for displaced Palestinians in Gaza that killed 18 people has drawn fierce global condemnation. The attack flattened ...

By Seun Opejobi Ahead of the United States, US, Presidential election, President Joe Biden stirred controversy when he wore a red cap belonging to the Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump. Biden wore the Make America Great Again, ...

Authorities in Borno State rush to provide shelter for residents displaced by the severe flooding. The collapse of a dam in northeast Nigeria has caused severe flooding, destroying thousands of homes and worsening a dire humanitarian crisis. The flooding in Borno State has affected ...

Polarising Latin American leader had been released from prison in December on humanitarian grounds. Alberto Fujimori, the polarising former leader of Peru who was credited with stabilising the Latin American country’s economy before being jailed for human rights abuses, has died at the ...

Millions of people across Southeast Asia struggled Thursday with flooded homes, power cuts and wrecked infrastructure after Typhoon Yagi swept through the region, as the death toll passed 200. In worst-hit Vietnam the fatalities rose to 197, with eight confirmed dead in ...

OAKLAND — A Bay Area man has been arrested and charged with starting an OnlyFans account that featured child sexual abuse material, court records show. Kevin Jimenez, 24, was charged Monday with one count of sexual exploitation of a child of possessing child pornography, both felonies. He ...

Tehran, Iran – Ukraine’s Western allies claim Iran has sent short-range ballistic missiles to Russia in a major escalation – a claim Tehran has rejected as “completely baseless and false” and pointed to what it sees as Western hypocrisy. The United States, Britain, France and Germany on ...

Hundreds of protesters broke into Mexico’s Senate as lawmakers weighed a radical reform to overhaul the country’s judiciary, forcing the upper house to take a temporary recess for the safety of the senators. The shutdown came just hours after Mexico’s ruling party, Morena, wrangled the ...

Hours before United States Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump faced off in their high-stakes presidential debate, the US Census Bureau released some key economic data. While neither candidate mentioned it during the debate, it could prove crucial to the outcome ...

Perhaps the most famous celebrity in the world has finally weighed in on the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Pop superstar Taylor Swift announced her endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris moments after the conclusion of a debate between the Democratic nominee and her Republican opponent ...

Fifty-four people are still missing, authorities say, as the typhoon threatens to bring destruction to the capital Hanoi. Tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes as floods inundated northern Vietnam in the wake of Typhoon Yagi, while the death toll from Asia’s ...

Most people were asleep when Israel’s bombs made a three-storey-deep crater and started a large fire. I’m Tala Herzallah, 22, from northern Gaza. I’m currently displaced and staying in al-Mawasi. This is what I saw on September 10, the day of the explosion: We were all asleep. ...

Kyiv, Ukraine – It was the biggest government reshuffle in Ukraine since the full-scale Russian invasion began – and the timing could not be worse. Ukrainian forces continue to lose ground in the southeastern Donbas region even after trying to divert Moscow’s attention and manpower by ...

Ukraine is adding little-known incendiary weapons to its armoury in its battle to fend off the ongoing Russian invasion, including “fire-spitting” drones reminiscent of dragons. On Wednesday, Ukraine’s Defence Ministry posted videos on the social media platform X showing a Ukrainian drone ...

According to polls, Trump is leading Harris nationally by 48 to 47 percent, well within the margin of error. The US presidential race remains neck-and-neck according to polls released two days before Kamala Harris and Donald Trump hold their first – and potentially only – televised ...

As the war enters its 927th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Monday, September 9, 2024. Fighting At least three people were killed and one injured after Russia struck the village of Cherkaske in the eastern Donetsk region with cluster munitions, ...

At least 61 people have been killed by Israeli attacks on Gaza in the last two days as Israel’s war on the besieged enclave enters its 12 month with little sign of respite for the Palestinian territory. Israeli air raids killed more than a dozen people overnight into Saturday, hospital and ...

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will remain at the International Space Station until February 2025. Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft has landed in New Mexico, wrapping up a three-month test mission that faced technical issues and forced it to leave the two astronauts it carried ...

By Seun Opejobi Justice Juan M. Merchan on Friday delayed the sentencing of former United States President Donald Trump, in his hush money trial until after the November election. This was after the judge granted Trump a hard-won reprieve as he ...

Republican presidential nominee tells Jewish donors that his Democratic rival would ‘totally abandon’ Israel. Israel will cease to exist if United States Vice President Kamala is elected to the White House in November, former President Donald Trump has claimed. Addressing Jewish ...

A 14-year-old boy was charged with shooting four people dead at a US high school, while his father was charged with manslaughter, authorities said Thursday, after the country’s latest outburst of gun violence. The teen faces four felony murder counts after allegedly ...

In July 2014, shortly after the kickoff of Israel’s “Operation Protective Edge” in the Gaza Strip – a 51-day affair that ultimately killed 2,251 Palestinians, including 551 children – Danish journalist Nikolaj Krak penned a dispatch from Israel for the Copenhagen-based Kristeligt Dagblad ...

The Russian president claims Kyiv’s bid had an opposite effect, allowing Moscow to accelerate its offensive in eastern Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin says Ukraine’s weeks-long ongoing incursion in Russia’s Kursk region is aimed at slowing the Russian advance in the Ukrainian region of ...

Authorities in Monterey County have arrested a man suspected of massacring dozens of animals early Tuesday morning in Prunedale, including miniature horses, rabbits and birds, the Sheriff’s Office said. Salinas man Vicente Joseph Arroyo, 39, allegedly began to randomly fire multiple ...

As the war enters its 923rd day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Thursday, September 5, 2024. Fighting At least seven people, including three children, were killed in a Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine’s western city of Lviv on the border with ...

Over the weekend, news emerged that believed "Russian spy" beluga whale Hvalidmir had died. But perhaps fittingly — considering his mysterious past as a possible foreign agent — the circumstances surrounding his death sound increasingly bizarre. Regina Haug, the founder of animal rights ...

US Democratic nominee’s proposal is latest effort to erase Donald Trump’s polling advantage on economic issues. United States Vice President Kamala Harris is set to unveil a tax deduction of up to $50,000 for new small businesses as the Democratic nominee seeks to burnish her economic ...

The British government has suspended some arms export licences to Israel, saying the weapons could be used to commit violations of international humanitarian law. But the move, which comes amid lingering international criticism of Israel’s killing of more than 40,000 Palestinians in the ...

  The United States has seized a private jet reportedly tied to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, claiming it was acquired illegally and smuggled out of the country in violation of U.S. laws. The plane, a Falcon 900EX, was confiscated in the Dominican ...

The Indian Air Force flies more than 200 rescue officers and 30 tonnes of emergency aid to Telangana and Andhra Pradesh states. Intense monsoon rains and floods in India’s southern states have killed at least 25 people, with thousands rescued and taken to relief camps, officials say. ...