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(Al Jazeera Media Network) At least 26 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded during the worst prison riot in Sri Lanka in years. Fighting between rival groups of inmates at the prison in Negombo, about 35 km (22 miles) north of the capital, Colombo, started on Sunday and escalated on Monday, according to local media reports and police. Two prisoners were killed on Sunday, when clashes between long-term convicts and those under temporary...

(Al Jazeera Media Network) Russia’s Defence Ministry is accusing Ukraine of refusing to halt ⁠the shelling ⁠of the eastern city of Kostiantynivka to allow Moscow to hand over the bodies of ⁠fallen Ukrainian soldiers. The ministry said on Sunday that it had proposed ⁠a six-hour ceasefire in and around Kostiantynivka on ⁠Monday to facilitate ⁠the handover and had given Kyiv until 0900 GMT on Sunday ‌to respond. The Russian claim is the latest salvo in the...

(Washington Times) A China-based American tycoon is funding a Beijing-backed influence campaign in the U.S. to block construction of large computer data centers, according to a new think tank report. Neville Roy Singham, who lives in Shanghai, is funneling millions of dollars to the U.S. communist group Party for Socialism and Liberation to support the influence effort, according to a report by the Bitcoin Policy Institute made public Tuesday. China is fomenting public unrest in the U.S. against the building of...

(Al Jazeera Media Network) A bomb blast tore through a crowded cafe in central Damascus on Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding 22. It is viewed by analysts as a major security breach in the heart of the Syrian capital, but one that was not entirely unexpected due to the number of opponents to Syria’s new government. The explosion hit a popular cafe on Al-Nasr Street in the al-Hijaz area of Damascus, about 100...

(Al Jazeera Media Network) The United States Supreme Court has ruled against US President Donald Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship for all individuals born on US soil. The 6-3 ruling represents a major blow to Trump and his effort to transform immigration in the US. Upon taking office on January 20, 2025, Trump had signed an executive order seeking to bar those born in the US to parents on temporary legal statuses or without...

(Al Jazeera Media Network) The Syrian government has condemned overnight Israeli attacks in southern Syria, as residents near the occupied Golan Heights were forced to flee their homes. The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday firmly condemned “the Israeli aggressions”, calling them “a flagrant violation of Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity”. The latest attack took place on Sunday in Abdin, a village in western Deraa province, where residents attempted to block the advance of an...

(New York Times) Nearly five years to the day that an unprecedented heat dome descended on the Pacific Northwest, dozens of lawyers coalesced in a Portland courtroom this week to debate an extraordinary lawsuit that attempts to hold oil companies responsible for the deaths that resulted. The $50 billion lawsuit argues that the deadly heat dome — the most extreme heat event in the region’s recorded history — was a result of the defendants’ decades-long...

(Al Jazeera Media Network) The IRGC says its forces have destroyed eight US military sites in Kuwait and Bahrain, with the attacks described as retaliation for recent US attacks on Iranian facilities. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the Strait of Hormuz remains under total Iranian control for the next 30 days and any US attacks will only exacerbate the precarious situation.   https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/6/28/iran-war-live-trump-threatens-tehran-as-us-bombs-sirik-qeshm-for-2nd-day

(Al Jazeera Media Network) International rescue teams have joined an urgent search for survivors in Venezuela, where people remain trapped under collapsed buildings after two devastating earthquakes on Wednesday. Countries from across the Americas – including Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, El Salvador, Cuba and the United States – as well as the United Nations, continued on Friday to send search and rescue teams and humanitarian aid in the aftermath of the quakes. “To the Venezuelan people, to those whose loved...

(Al Jazeera Media Network) The United States Supreme Court has sided with the maker of Roundup weedkiller in a ruling expected to block thousands of lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people the product could cause cancer. The ruling on Thursday was tied to a case that came before the justices after a tidal wave of litigation that included some multibillion-dollar verdicts against the global agrochemical manufacturer Bayer, a Germany-based company that acquired Roundup when it bought its original producer...