(BBC News) The government says it is allowing some "eligible" Afghan special forces soldiers who fought alongside the British military to resettle in the UK, after they were previously rejected.
Under the previous government, about 2,000 Afghans who served with specialist units – known as the "Triples" – were denied permission to relocate to the UK after the Taliban takeover in 2021.
Armed forces minister Luke Pollard told the House of Commons a review had now...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Taiwan detected 153 aircraft surrounding its territory as China carried out massive military exercises, according to the self-ruled island’s defence ministry.
The “surge in warplane activity” saw a record number of aircraft spotted in the 25 hours to 6 am on Tuesday (22:00 GMT, Monday), the Ministry of National Defense said in a statement. China’s war games have once more raised tensions with the island and across the region, it noted.
Beijing deployed...
(BBC News) A spacecraft that will hunt for signs of life on one of Jupiter’s icy moons has blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
NASA launched the spacecraft at 12:06 local time (16:06 GMT) after hurricane Milton forced the mission to postpone plans last week.
Europa Clipper will now travel 2.9 billion kilometres to reach Europa, a deeply mysterious moon orbiting Jupiter.
It will not arrive until 2030, but what it finds could change what we know about...
(BBC News) A man armed with guns and a high-capacity magazine was arrested outside Donald Trump's rally in California on Saturday, police say.
Vem Miller, 49, was arrested near a checkpoint to the Coachella rally site. He was stopped and found to be in possession of multiple passports and driving licences in different names, and a fake licence plate.
The incident "did not affect the safety of former President Trump or attendees of the event," police...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) At least 67 people have been wounded in a drone attack in northern Israel, according to Israeli emergency services and local media, as the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah said it had targeted an Israeli military camp with a “swarm” of drones.
Israeli Army Radio reported that at least four people were critically wounded in the attack on Sunday in the town of Binyamina, south of Haifa.
According to Israel’s Channel 12, no warning sirens...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Two TD Bank units have pleaded guilty to United States criminal charges and agreed to pay $3 billion in combined penalties to resolve federal government probes into money laundering, US authorities have said, making it the largest bank in US history guilty for such violations.
The plea deal includes imposition of an asset cap and other limitations to its business, authorities said on Thursday. It comes after multiple government investigations into...
(BBC News) Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant says Israel's response to attacks by Iran will be “deadly, precise, and surprising”.
Speaking during a visit to an IDF intelligence unit, he calls the Iranian missile attack last week — which saw almost 200 ballistic missiles fired towards Israel — "aggressive but imprecise".
It comes as US President Joe Biden and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have spoken for the first time in weeks. The White House says Vice-President Kamala Harris...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Russian forces have reached the outskirts of the long-contested strategic town of Toretsk in eastern Ukraine.
The Ukrainian military confirmed that fighting was taking place in the town late on Monday. Torestsk is the latest key location that Russian troops have reached in recent weeks as they advance Moscow’s bid to take control of the Donetsk region.
“The situation is unstable, fighting is taking place literally at every entrance (to the city),”...
(BBC News) Russia's intelligence agency has been on a mission to generate "sustained mayhem on British and European streets," the head of MI5 has said.
Giving his annual update on security threats faced by the UK, Ken McCallum said GRU agents had carried out "arson, sabotage, and more dangerous actions conducted with increasing recklessness" in Britain after the UK backed Ukraine in its war with Russia.
MI5 had also responded to 20 plots backed by Iran since...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Israel has expanded attacks on southern Lebanon and pounded the capital Beirut’s southern suburbs as the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah has claimed a series of missile attacks on northern Israel, including near the city of Haifa.
The Israeli military said it carried out 120 strikes on Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon “within an hour” on Monday. An earlier attack on a municipal building near Bint Jbeil killed at least 10 Lebanese...
