The strikes triggered a raging fire and plumes of black smoke which could be seen from all across the city Israeli warplanes struck the Houthi-controlled Yemeni port of Hodeida Saturday, killing at least three people and wounding another 87 according to health authorities. It comes a ...

Along the rice fields of Porto Tolle in Veneto, the areas damaged by salt seeping into the soil are clearly visible. It has been caused by both direct irrigation with brackish water and by saltwater rising from the subsoil. In the Po Delta, the problem is particularly bad because the fields ...

  Eton College, one of the most prestigious private boarding schools in the world, has implemented a new policy requiring incoming students to use basic Nokia devices instead of smartphones. Known for educating world leaders and royalty, Eton's alumni, known as Old Etonians, include ...

US President Joe Biden pledged to stay in the White House race Friday, defying a growing Democratic party revolt that raised speculation he could bow out as soon as this weekend. “The stakes are high, and the choice is clear. Together, we will win,” the 81-year-old said in a statement from the ...

Looming health disaster for displaced Palestinians living in tent camps, where sewage flows freely, contaminating water. Poliovirus has been detected in samples of sewage water in the densely populated Gaza Strip, placing “thousands” of Palestinians at risk of contracting the highly ...

Australia’s National Cyber Security Coordinator says it is aware of ‘large-scale technical outage’. Australia has been hit by a major IT outage that has disrupted banks, telecoms, media outlets and airlines. Australia’s National Cyber Security Coordinator said on Friday that it was ...

International Court of Justice says Israel’s policies in the occupied Palestinian territory amounted to annexation. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled that Israel’s continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is unlawful and that it should come to an end ...

By John Owen Nwachukwu Presidential candidate of the Republican, Donald Trump, has promised ‘the largest deportation operation in the history of the United States of America. Trump addressed Republican supporters on Thursday in his formal acceptance of his nomination. Trump noted that the GOP ...

By John Owen Nwachukwu Presidential candidate of the Republican Party for the 2024 election, Donald Trump has accused the Joe Biden administration of creating the Russia-Ukraine war. Trump said he will end every single conflict going on around the globe if he returns as the President of the ...

Former United States President Donald Trump is set to take the stage at the Republican National Convention (RNC), where he will deliver a speech as the party’s standard bearer just five days after surviving an assassination attempt. The address on Thursday night will cap a convention that ...

Rwanda’s Paul Kagame has won a landslide victory in the presidential elections held on July 15. His Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) party also emerged victorious in the legislative vote, retaining its parliamentary majority. With more than 99 percent of the vote in Kagame’s favour, this ...

Firefighters pull 75 people to safety as the investigation into the cause of the blaze is under way. At least 16 people have been killed in a fire at a shopping mall in southwestern China, state media reported. The blaze started in the 14-storey commercial building in the city of ...

Beijing said the US’s weapons sales to Taiwan has ‘compromised the political atmosphere’ for continued talks on nuclear non-proliferation. China has suspended negotiations on nuclear non-proliferation and arms control with the United States in protest against Washington’s arms sales to ...

North African countries seek assistance at Tripoli conference to help stem flow of refugees and migrants. Representatives from 28 African and European countries have met in Libya’s capital, Tripoli, to discuss ways to address irregular migration. In his opening remarks at the ...

US media reports claim that an Iran plan to target Republican presidential hopeful is unrelated to attack in Pennsylvania. Iran has angrily dismissed United States media reports that it has been plotting to assassinate former US President Donald Trump. A foreign ministry spokesman ...

UN condemns Israeli attack that killed children who were reportedly playing outside their home in south Lebanon. Israeli air attacks in southern Lebanon have killed at least five Syrians, including three children, Lebanese media reported, as Israel’s military and the Hezbollah armed ...

Washington, DC – After the Israeli military bombed a school housing displaced people in central Gaza on Tuesday, a young man stood at the chaotic scene with a rocket fragment in his hand. “This is an Israeli American missile,” he said. “We were stepping on corpses. I cannot describe the ...

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 ...