(BBC News) More than 200 people are missing in one district of northwest Pakistan as a result of devastating monsoon flooding and landslides, an official has said.
Flash floods have killed more than 300 people in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir in recent days, with most of the deaths recorded in the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
A local official in the worst-affected Buner district told the BBC that at least 209 people were still missing there.
Rescue teams...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Kuwaiti authorities have arrested 67 people accused of producing and distributing locally made alcoholic drinks that killed 23 people in recent days, the country's Interior Ministry has said.
In a statement on X late on Saturday, the ministry said it seized six factories and another four that were not yet operational in residential and industrial areas.
A Nepali member of the criminal group told authorities how the methanol was prepared and sold.
Kuwait,...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) A highly anticipated summit between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, has ended without a deal on ending Moscow’s war in Ukraine, but the United States president said “great progress” has been made in the talks in Alaska.
Observers say the meeting gave the Russian president a “diplomatic win” after years of being shunned by the West following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Putin was greeted with...
(BBC News) Washington DC is suing the federal government over its takeover of the police force, after US Attorney General Pam Bondi named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as the district's "emergency police commissioner".
The city's attorney general, Brian Schwalb, wrote on X that the US government had illegally declared a takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and was "abusing its temporary, limited authority under the law."
The lawsuit asks a judge...
(BBC News) Flash floods have killed at least 46 people in a village hosting Hindu pilgrims in Indian-administered Kashmir.
The flooding took place in the remote village of Chositi in Kishtwar district, which is on a busy pilgrimage route to a famous shrine in the Himalayas.
Videos shared online showed dramatic flood waters, vehicles being washed away and rescuers searching for survivors in damaged homes, as people cried in the streets — some caked in mud.
Dozens of...
(BBC News) Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has indicated that Gaza ceasefire efforts are now focused on a comprehensive deal to release all the remaining hostages at once.
The plan previously being pushed was for an initial 60-day truce and partial release of living hostages.
Hamas says a delegation of its leaders is in Cairo for "preliminary talks" with Egyptian officials.
Reports say that mediators see a window of opportunity in the coming weeks to try to...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Clashes in Serbia have continued for a second day as opponents and supporters of the Serbian government faced off, each side staging its own demonstrations, following more than nine months of sustained protests against populist President Aleksandar Vucic.
The president’s supporters and antigovernment demonstrators launched flares and other objects at each other in the northern city of Novi Sad on Wednesday evening, requiring the intervention of riot police, according to local...
(BBC News) A South Korean former tech executive accused of helping to spark a cryptocurrency crisis that cost investors more than $40 billion has pleaded guilty to two criminal counts of fraud.
Do Kwon was the boss of Singapore-based Terraform Labs, which operated two cryptocurrencies – TerraUSD and Luna – both of which collapsed in 2022, triggering a wider selloff in the crypto market.
The US says he was responsible for the failure of the two...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by the Trump administration began arriving as police and federal officials took the first steps in an uneasy partnership to reduce crime in what President Donald Trump called a lawless city.
The influx on Tuesday came the morning after the Republican president announced he would be activating the guard members and taking over the district’s police department. He cited a crime emergency – but...
(BBC News) The UN's human rights office has condemned a targeted Israeli attack that killed six journalists in Gaza, calling it a grave breach of international law.
Five Al Jazeera journalists, including correspondent Anas al-Sharif, were killed in an Israeli air strike on Sunday. Two others were killed, including a freelance journalist, the broadcaster said.
Israel's military said it targeted Sharif, alleging he had "served as the head of a terrorist cell in Hamas" - something...
