(Al Jazeera Media Network) Hamas has issued what it calls a “warning” that the lives of two captives held in Gaza City are in danger as Israeli tanks push deeper inside several neighbourhoods of the besieged urban centre, where tens of thousands of Palestinians are trapped by Israel’s ground invasion and bombardment.
The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian group, said on Sunday that contact has been lost with fighters holding Omri Miran and...
(BBC News) A Russian aerial bombardment that lasted more than 12 hours has killed at least four people and injured at least 70 others in Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said the deaths all occurred in the capital, Kyiv, where many of the projectiles were aimed, and the victims included a 12-year-old girl.
The barrage – involving nearly 600 drones and several dozen missiles aimed at seven regions of Ukraine – is one of the heaviest in...
(BBC News) President Donald Trump has ordered the deployment of US troops to Portland, Oregon, authorizing use of "full force" if needed, to suppress protests targeting immigration detention centres.
Trump said he was "directing Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to provide all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland."
He claimed that the move would help protect "any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists," adding on Truth Social: "I...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) European Union defence ministers have agreed to develop a “drone wall” along their borders with Russia and Ukraine to detect, track, and intercept violations of their airspace, according to the bloc’s defence chief.
Friday’s announcement comes after rogue drones entered Polish airspace on September 10, rattling eastern EU members.
“The repeated violations of our airspace are unacceptable. The message is clear: Russia is testing the EU and NATO. And our response must...
(BBC News) Former FBI Director James Comey has maintained he is innocent after being charged with making false statements to Congress.
President Donald Trump welcomed the indictment against a high-profile figure who has long drawn his ire. Comey is accused of lying to a Senate committee in 2020 about whether he authorized a leak of classified information to the media.
The indictment in Virginia comes days after Trump called on the country's top law enforcement official...
(BBC News) Denmark's Aalborg airport in the country's north has been closed after unauthorized drones were seen in its airspace, according to local authorities.
Three other smaller airports in the country's southern region – Esbjerg, Sønderborg and Skrydstrup – also reported drone activity, but were not closed.
The incident comes after the country's Copenhagen airport was forced to close earlier this week due to a drone incursion, which the prime minister described as "the most severe...
(BBC News) NASA has said it hopes to send astronauts on a 10-day trip around the Moon as soon as February.
The US space agency had previously committed to launching no later than the end of April but said it aims to bring the mission forward.
It has been 50 years since any country has flown a crewed lunar mission. NASA will send four astronauts there and back to test systems.
The Artemis II mission is the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Canada and Australia have joined the United Kingdom in formally recognising Palestinian statehood as Israel plans to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank and intensifies its war on Gaza.
In a statement on Sunday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the recognition of a Palestinian state and offered “our partnership in building the promise of a peaceful future for both the State of Palestine and the State of Israel”.
Carney added that the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The armed wing of Hamas has released what it calls a “farewell picture” of 48 Israeli captives held in Gaza as the Israeli army continues to destroy and seize the besieged enclave’s largest urban centre.
Qassam Brigades posted a compilation photo online on Saturday, showing the faces of all living and deceased captives, with each of them captioned “Ron Arad” in reference to the Israeli air force captain who went missing in Lebanon...
(BBC News) A key US vaccine advisory committee has voted to stop recommending all adults get a COVID-19 vaccine, which has until now been officially approved for most Americans annually since the pandemic.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) also narrowly voted against advocating prescriptions for the COVID vaccines.
In two days of meetings, ACIP changed its recommendations on the combined measles, mumps, rubella, varicella (MMRV) vaccine, and delayed plans for a vote on the...
