(BBC News) At least 120 people - 100 of them police officers - have been injured in clashes during anti-government protests in Mexico City, police said.
Thousands of demonstrators marched in the Mexican capital on Saturday to protest against violent crime and President Claudia Sheinbaum's government.
Sheinbaum said the marches, which also took place in other cities, had been funded by right-wing politicians who oppose her government.
The rally was organised by Gen Z youth groups, drawing support...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Venezuela on Tuesday announced what it called a major nationwide military deployment in response to the presence of growing United States naval forces off its coast.
On Thursday, the US also unveiled an operation, called Southern Spear, which it said was intended to target “narco-terrorists” in the Western Hemisphere.
The escalation has raised alarm in Caracas, where officials worry the US may be using these operations as a pretext to force President...
(BBC News) China has summoned the Japanese ambassador in Beijing over Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's comments on Taiwan.
China and Japan have been locked in an escalating war of words this week, set off by Takaichi's suggestion that Japan could respond with its own self-defence force if China attacked Taiwan.
Both countries' foreign ministries have lodged serious protests with each other. A Chinese diplomat also made a comment which some interpreted as a threat to behead...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Less than two hours after a suicide blast at the entrance of the district court in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad on Tuesday, Khawaja Asif, the country’s defence minister, called the attack a “wake-up call” and “a war for all of Pakistan”.
“The rulers of Kabul can stop terrorism in Pakistan, but bringing this war all the way to Islamabad is a message from Kabul, to which, praise be to God, Pakistan has the full...
(BBC News) The public prosecutor's office in Milan has opened an investigation into claims that Italian citizens travelled to Bosnia-Herzegovina on "sniper safaris" during the war in the early 1990s.
Italians and others are alleged to have paid large sums to shoot at civilians in the besieged city of Sarajevo.
The Milan complaint was filed by journalist and novelist Ezio Gavazzeni, who describes a "manhunt" by "very wealthy people" with a passion for weapons who "paid...
(BBC News) The BBC is in the midst of a crisis after its director general and head of news resigned, and US President Donald Trump threatened it with a $1-billion lawsuit.
The corporation has been under fire after criticism that a Panorama documentary misled viewers when it edited a speech by Trump, making it look like he was explicitly urging people to attack the US Capitol.
On Monday, BBC chairman Samir Shah apologised for that "error...
(BBC News) Typhoon Fung-wong has made landfall in the Philippines, where more than 900,000 people have been evacuated and two people have died.
The storm hit as a super typhoon, with sustained winds of around 185 km/h (115mph) and gusts of 230 km/h (143mph).
The eye of the storm hit Aurora province in Luzon - the country's most populous island - at 21:10 local time (13:10 GMT). By 02:00, the storm weakened to a typhoon and...
(BBC News) Multiple people have fallen ill after opening a "suspicious package" delivered to the base of operations for Air Force One.
A spokesperson for Joint Base Andrews (JBA) in Maryland, near the US capital, Washington DC, said the building the package was opened in was evacuated and those taken ill were found to be in a stable condition by medical staff.
The package contained an unidentified white powder, CNN reports, citing unnamed sources familiar with...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) A Dutch appeals court has dismissed an attempt by human rights organisations to stop the Netherlands from selling weapons to Israel.
Ten pro-Palestinian NGOs had filed a lawsuit accusing the Dutch state of doing too little to prevent what they described as “genocide” in Gaza with a “clearly unlawful” foreign policy toward Israel.
They urged judges to impose a blanket ban on weapons exports to Israel, a ban on exporting military dogs,...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Tesla’s board is set to vote on CEO Elon Musk’s $1-trillion pay package as major proxy adviser firms urge shareholders to reject the deal.
The vote is scheduled for Thursday and will determine whether Musk secures what is the largest compensation package in corporate history.
Proxy firms Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services have both recommended that investors vote against the package. These firms often influence large passive funds that hold significant stakes in...
