(Al Jazeera Media Network) After more than a decade of isolation, Bashar al-Assad, the president of war-torn Syria, has been welcomed back into the Arab League.
al-Assad on Friday attended the regional bloc’s 32nd summit in Saudi Arabia’s port city of Jeddah for the first time since his country’s suspension following the eruption of war in Syria in 2011.
During his speech, he said the summit was a “historic opportunity” to address crises across the region...
(BBC News) The U.S. says it will support providing advanced fighter jets including U.S.-made F-16s to Ukraine, and will back training Ukrainian pilots to fly them.
A senior White House official said President Joe Biden had told G7 leaders in Japan of the decision.
Ukraine President Volodomyr Zelensky, who has requested fighter jets for months, said the decision would "greatly enhance our army in the sky."
U.S. approval for the scheme means other nations can export their...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Russia has agreed to extend a deal that has allowed Ukraine to ship grain through the Black Sea to parts of the world struggling with hunger, a boost to global food security after the more-than-year-old war drove up prices.
“I want to give good news,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday in a televised speech. “With the efforts of our country, the support of our Russian friends and the contribution of...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The United States has sent approximately 2,400 people – including Cubans, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans – back to Mexico since a contentious border policy known as Title 42 expired late last week, a U.S. official has said.
The end of Title 42, which allowed U.S. authorities to rapidly expel people crossing the country’s southern border under the pretext of protecting public health, late on Thursday coincided with a new policy that restricts access to asylum at...
(BBC News) A long-awaited report has strongly criticized the FBI's handling of its investigation into alleged ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign.
In a 306-page report, special counsel John Durham said the agency's inquiry had lacked "analytical rigour."
He concluded the FBI had not possessed "actual evidence" of collusion between Donald Trump's campaign and Russia before launching an inquiry.
The FBI said it had addressed the issues highlighted in the report.
In the report, Durham – who...
(University of Colorado at Boulder) A new study led by physicist Sascha Kempf at the University of Colorado Boulder has delivered evidence that Saturn's rings are remarkably young — potentially answering a question that has boggled scientists for well over a century.
The research, published May 12 in the journal Science Advances, pegs the age of Saturn's rings at no more than 400 million years old. That makes the rings much younger than Saturn itself, which...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group in Gaza have agreed to a truce that has officially been in effect since 10 p.m. (19:00 GMT), Palestinian officials have said, signalling a potential end to the worst episode of cross-border fire since a 10-day war in 2021.
Egypt, which brokered the ceasefire, called on all sides to adhere to the agreement, Egypt’s Al-Qahera News television channel reported on Saturday.
“In the light of the agreement...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Thirty Palestinians have been killed and more than 90 injured in Israeli air attacks on the Gaza Strip since Tuesday, the Palestinian health ministry has said.
The victims include six children and three women as well as the head of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) rocket force and his deputy.
Palestinian factions in Gaza continued to fire rockets in retaliation from the besieged coastal enclave into Israel, killing one person on Thursday.
Amid mediation efforts by Egypt, neither side...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ruled the arrest of former prime minister Imran Khan to be illegal, and ordered that he be immediately released, two days after his detention on corruption allegations triggered violent protests.
After the ruling on Thursday, violence around the country appeared to ease, though clashes between celebrating supporters of Khan and police briefly broke out near the Supreme Court building.
The government, however, denounced the ruling and said it...
(BBC News) The U.K. has confirmed it is supplying Ukraine with long-range missiles it requested for its fight against invading Russian forces.
The Storm Shadow cruise missile has a range of over 250 kilometres, according to the manufacturer.
By contrast, the U.S.-supplied Himars missiles used by Ukraine only have a range of around 80 km.
The weapons will give Ukraine the "best chance" of defending itself, U.K. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said.
They are fired from aircraft, so...
