(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has nominated a moderate diplomat as foreign minister and a female official as urban development minister as he presented his new cabinet.
Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf announced on Sunday the names of the 19-member cabinet presented by the president during an assembly session broadcast live on state television.
The nominations appear in line with the hopes that the election of Pezeshkian last month, to replace the hardline Ebrahim Raisi, who...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iran is set to carry out an order by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to “harshly punish” Israel over the assassination of a Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps deputy commander has said.
“The supreme leader’s orders regarding the harsh punishment of Israel and revenge for the blood of martyr Ismail Haniyeh are clear and explicit … and they will be implemented in the best possible way,” Ali Fadavi...
(BBC News) When Kyiv launched a cross-border raid into Russia’s Kursk region bordering Ukraine, the question from some military experts was: “Why?”
One of Ukraine’s biggest battlefield issues is manpower. Russia has more soldiers and is inching closer to the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk.
So, sending hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers into Russia itself is, shall we say, counterintuitive in the eyes of some.
But not all.
"It wasn’t accidental,” said war expert Kostyantyn Mashovets in a Facebook...
(BBC News) Three scheduled Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna have been cancelled because of a reported security threat.
The shows were to take place on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at the Ernst Happel Stadium.
On Wednesday, two people were arrested on suspicion of planning attacks on large events in the area around the Austrian capital.
A statement from the organizers said: "Due to confirmation by government officials of a planned terrorist attack at the Ernst Happel Stadium, we...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Rioters have attacked people, shops, cars, and public spaces as far-right violence sweeps across the United Kingdom.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has decried “far-right thuggery”.
But members of Muslim community and activists have accused politicians, including the governing Labour party, of downplaying the levels of racism and Islamophobia taking place. They also say politicians and some media outlets are to blame for railing against migration for years.
What started the riots?
Disinformation on social media is...
(BBC News) A state of emergency has been declared in the Kursk region of Russia, as a rare cross-border attack by Ukrainian troops continued for a second day.
Acting regional governor Alexei Smirnov said the move was necessary "to eliminate the consequences of enemy forces coming into the region."
Thousands of people have been evacuated from border areas, Smirnov said earlier, adding that doctors were being brought in from other cities.
Earlier, President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine...
(BBC News) At least 80 people were killed in Bangladesh on Sunday, amid worsening clashes between police and anti-government protesters.
The unrest comes as student leaders have declared a campaign of civil disobedience to demand that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina step down.
Thirteen police officers were killed when thousands of people attacked a police station in the district of Sirajganj, police said.
The student protest started with a demand to abolish quotas in civil service jobs last...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) At least 32 people have been killed and many more wounded in a suicide bombing and gun attack on a popular beach in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, according to officials.
Al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda-linked armed group, claimed responsibility for the attack on Lido Beach late on Friday via an affiliated radio station.
The assault began when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance of Beach View Hotel. Several other attackers tried to...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) At least nine people, including a local commander of Hamas’s military wing, have been killed in two separate Israeli air strikes near Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank.
Medical sources confirmed to Al Jazeera on Saturday that one of the people killed in the first attack was Haitham Balidi, leader of the Qassam Brigades in the Nablus area. Another person was identified by a relative as one of the leaders of...
(BBC News) The US embassy in Beirut has urged its citizens to leave Lebanon on “any ticket available,” amid soaring tensions in the Middle East.
The advisory follows a similar warning from UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, who said the regional situation “could deteriorate rapidly.”
Iran has vowed “severe” retaliation against Israel, which it blames for the death of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on Wednesday. His assassination came hours after Israel killed Hezbollah commander...
