(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian suffered minor injuries in an Israeli air strike on a meeting of the Supreme National Security Council in Tehran on June 15, a senior Iranian official said.
The assassination attempt targeted the heads of the three branches of government in an effort to overthrow it, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“This attempt will not pass without Israel paying a price,” he told Al Jazeera.
The strike...
(BBC News) The US aviation regulator has said fuel control switches in Boeing aeroplanes are safe, following their reported involvement in a fatal Air India crash that killed 260 people in June.
The safety of the switches has become a key point of concern after a preliminary report on the disaster was released by investigators on Friday.
It said fuel to the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner engines was cut off moments after takeoff from Ahmedabad airport, and highlighted...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Ecuador’s most infamous drug lord has agreed to be extradited to the United States to face cocaine and weapons smuggling charges, a court in the capital Quito has said.
The announcement on Friday is the latest chapter in the dramatic underworld tale of Adolfo Macias, alias “Fito”, who was recaptured in June after escaping from a maximum security prison 18 months ago in a jailbreak that triggered a bloody wave of gang...
(BBC News) Investigators have made a chilling discovery in the preliminary investigation into the Air India Flight 171 crash that killed 260 people in June.
Just seconds after take-off, both of the 12-year-old Boeing 787 Dreamliner's fuel-control switches abruptly moved to the "cut-off" position, starving the engines of fuel and triggering total power loss. Switching to "cut-off" is a move typically done only after landing.
The cockpit voice recording captures one pilot asking the other why...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Houthi rebels in Yemen attempted to strike Israel’s Ben Gurion airport after sinking two vessels in the Red Sea this week, as the group ramps up its military pressure in support of Palestinians under Israeli fire in its bid to bring the war in Gaza to an end.
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said on Thursday that the group had carried out a “qualitative military operation” with a ballistic missile after...
(BBC News) It was a dramatic start to the week in Russia.
On Monday morning, President Vladimir Putin sacked his transport minister, Roman Starovoit.
By the afternoon, Starovoit was dead, his body discovered in a park on the edge of Moscow with a gunshot wound to the head. A pistol, allegedly, beside the body.
Investigators said they presumed the former minister had taken his own life.
The tabloid Moskovsky Komsomolets this morning said: "The suicide of Roman Starovoit just...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The Israeli military says five of its soldiers have been killed after Palestinian fighters detonated explosive devices during an operation in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoon area.
Israeli forces killed at least 54 Palestinians in dawn raids on Tuesday, medical sources reported, as pressure mounted on Israel to strike a ceasefire deal with Hamas.
The Israeli military said the five soldiers, aged between 20 and 28, “fell during combat in the northern Gaza Strip”,...
(BBC News) Israel says it has launched strikes on Houthi targets in three Yemeni ports, including the western port of Hudaydah, Ras Isa and Saif.
The attacks came shortly after the Israeli military issued evacuation orders for civilians in the areas, warning of imminent air strikes.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz confirmed on social media the strikes on the Houthi-controlled sites included a power station and the commercial ship the Galaxy Leader. The ship, hijacked by the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Rescuers in the US state of Texas are scrambling to locate more than two dozen children still missing from a Christian summer camp after a powerful storm caused flash floods that authorities say have killed at least 27 people.
Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha told reporters on Saturday that the death toll included at least nine children.
Leitha said around 800 people had been evacuated from the region, about 137 km northwest...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Rwandan President Paul Kagame has cautiously welcomed a United States-brokered peace deal with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), while suggesting Kigali will retaliate if provoked.
Speaking at a news conference in Kigali on Friday, Kagame said Rwanda remained committed to the agreement but questioned whether Kinshasa would uphold its part of the deal.
“If the side that we are working with plays tricks and takes us back to the problem, then...
