(Al Jazeera Media Network) Tom Homan, the US border security chief, says that the immigration crackdown in Minnesota that led to mass detentions, protests and two deaths is coming to an end.
“As a result of our efforts here, Minnesota is now less of a sanctuary state for criminals,” Homan said at a news conference on Thursday.
“I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude.”
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Russia has blocked messaging service WhatsApp over alleged legal breaches, urging users to switch to a state-backed alternative in what is widely seen as a bid to clamp down on free speech amid the war in Ukraine.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov announced the move on Thursday, attributing it to WhatsApp’s “reluctance to comply with the norms and letter of Russian law”.
He advised Russians to turn instead to MAX, a state-sponsored platform touted...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) A notorious prisoner involved in Guinea’s infamous 2009 stadium massacre was transferred from the capital Conakry’s central prison as witnesses reported heavy gunfire.
At least three special forces armoured vehicles were seen in front of the prison on Tuesday and three ambulances viewed leaving it.
It remains unclear who was shooting or what triggered it. Gunfire reportedly began shortly before 9am (09:00 GMT) and lasted more than half an hour.
Authorities did not explicitly link...
(CNN) When the partner of a 35-year-old magistrate in France checked his phone last week, he saw a picture of his partner accompanied by a stark warning: pay a ransom in cryptocurrency or we will mutilate her.
The man – an associate in a start-up that has cryptocurrency activities – reported the demand to French police on Thursday morning, sparking a multi-agency manhunt involving as many as 160 officers, local authorities said.
The magistrate and her elderly mother...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Air Canada has said it is suspending service to Cuba due to an ongoing aviation fuel shortage on the island.
“Air Canada took the decision following advisories issued by governments about the unreliability of aviation fuel supply at Cuban airports,” the airline said in a press release on Monday.
“It is projected that, as of February 10, aviation fuel will not be commercially available at airports on the island. For remaining flights,...
(CNN) Jeffrey Epstein had a message he wanted to get to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
It was June 2018 – about a year after Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin had suddenly died. Churkin had been someone Epstein met with regularly in New York, according to new documents released by the Department of Justice, and Epstein had even offered to help Churkin’s son, Maxim, get a job at a wealth management firm in New York.
Now...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Hamas’s political leader abroad, Khaled Meshaal, has rejected calls to disarm Palestinian factions in Gaza, arguing that stripping weapons from an occupied people would turn them into “an easy victim to be eliminated”.
Speaking on the second day of the Al Jazeera Forum in Doha on Sunday, Meshaal described the discussion around Hamas handing over its weapons as a continuation of a century-long effort to neutralise Palestinian armed resistance.
“In the context that our...
(CNN) A suicide bomber killed at least 31 people and injured 169 during Friday prayers at a Shiite Muslim mosque in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, authorities said.
It was the deadliest attack in the country since January 2023, when a blast at a mosque in the northwestern city of Peshawar killed more than 100 people.
Pakistan has witnessed a rising wave of militancy in recent years, but attacks have been less frequent in the heavily guarded capital....
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Ukraine braced for more attacks on its energy infrastructure this week as winter temperatures continued to fall to -20 degrees Celsius, and sought to adapt its defences against Russian drones.
On Thursday, Ukraine’s energy minister, Denys Shmyal, warned Ukrainians to prepare for more power blackouts in the coming days as Russian air attacks continued.
Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said Russia had struck energy infrastructure 217 times this year. Shmyal said 200 emergency crews...
(CNN) French police raided the Paris offices of Elon Musk’s X Tuesday and summoned the tech billionaire for questioning as part of a widening probe into the social media company and its AI chatbot Grok.
The search was linked to an investigation France opened in January 2025, the prosecutor’s office said Tuesday, adding that its cybercrime unit conducted the raid with help from Europol.
Both X chairman Musk and former X chief executive Linda Yaccarino have been...
