As the war enters its 890th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Saturday, August 3, 2024. Fighting Ukraine’s military says it attacked overnight Russia’s Morozovsk airfield and a number of oil depots and fuel storage facilities in the Russian regions of ...

Pentagon announces deployment as tensions build between Iran and Israel after the high-profile Haniyeh assassination. The United States military has announced the deployment of additional resources to the Middle East, including an aircraft carrier, amid growing concerns about the ...

The political opposition in Venezuela has called for more mass demonstrations as anger continues to boil over President Nicolas Maduro’s disputed election victory. Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado urged Venezuelans to take to the streets on Saturday in protest of Maduro’s ...

Top government official accused US-based company of blocking condolence posts on killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. Turkey has blocked access to Instagram, the national communications authority said, after a top government official slammed the social media platform for “censoring” ...

US chip maker to cut 15 percent of workforce as part of efforts to cut costs by $10bn in 2025. Chipmaker Intel has announced plans to slash more than 15 percent of its workforce as it tries to make up ground on rivals such as Nvidia and AMD. Under the restructuring plan announced on ...

CARACAS — The stakes grew higher for Venezuela’s electoral authority to show proof backing its decision to declare President Nicolás Maduro the winner of the country’s presidential election after the United States on Thursday recognized opposition candidate Edmundo González as the victor, ...

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan describes the disaster as ‘one of the worst’ the southern Indian state has ever witnessed. Hopes of finding more than 180 missing people alive in India’s Kerala state waned as rescue workers continued to search through mud and debris after landslides set ...

Bhaker became India’s first-ever multi-medallist at an Olympics by winning her second bronze on a hot day in Paris. Great Britain’s Nathan Hales clinched the men’s trap gold at the Paris Games with a new Olympic record, while the Serbian pair of Zorana Arunovic and Damir Mikec ...

Israel has carried out an air strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs, targeting a senior Hezbollah commander, an Israeli military spokesperson said. The Israeli army said that the attack on Tuesday was in retaliation for an attack on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Saturday that killed 12 ...

Texas announced a massive settlement with Meta over the use of facial recognition on Facebook, resolving a lawsuit filed in 2022 claiming that the “Tag Suggestions” feature on photos uploaded to Facebook violated the state’s Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier (CUBI) Act and Deceptive Trade ...

A city in Southern California has become the first in the nation to replace its police patrol cars with electric vehicles, officials announced Monday, unveiling a fleet of 20 new Teslas. South Pasadena on the edge of Los Angeles will replace its gas-guzzling police cruisers with the Teslas ...

Heavy rain hinders rescue efforts after landslides struck the hilly Wayanad district while people were sleeping. At least 10 people are thought to have been killed with hundreds feared trapped after a series of landslides triggered by relentless rain struck a hilly region of India’s ...

Jacob Zuma, who once led the African National Congress (ANC), has been accused of campaigning to dislodge it from power. Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been expelled from the ruling African National Congress (ANC) after he backed a rival party in May’s parliamentary ...

The strike follows a bloody weekend rocket attack on the Israel-occupied Golan Heights, blamed by Israel on Hezbollah. Israeli drone attacks have reportedly killed two people in southern Lebanon as conflict spirals between the bordering states. The Israeli attack was the first ...

North Korea may be considering a nuclear test near the time the U.S. presidential election is held to raise its profile, South Korea’s defense minister said, as Kim Jong Un rolls out new warheads capable of striking the U.S. and its allies in Asia. Seoul will reach a deal with Japan and the U.S. ...

Lebanon on Sunday called for an international investigation into a strike that killed 12 people including children in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, warning against a large-scale retaliation. The Israeli military said that an Iranian-made rocket that Lebanon's Hezbollah group fired on ...

Teenager Coco Yoshizawa took the skateboarding Olympic gold medal at the historic Place de la Concorde in Paris. Japanese 14-year-old Coco Yoshizawa has won women’s street skateboard gold at the Paris Olympics in an all-teenage final. Fellow Japanese contender Liz Akama took ...

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 ...