(Al Jazeera Media Network) The United States military has announced the deployment of additional resources to the Middle East, including an aircraft carrier, amid growing concerns about the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran.
On Friday, the Pentagon revealed it would send an additional fighter jet squadron, Navy cruisers and destroyer ships to the Middle East.
“We’ve demonstrated since October and again in April the United States’s global defence is dynamic, and the department retains...
(BBC News) It is something Vladimir Putin does rarely: go to the airport to meet people off of a plane. Personally.
<p dir="auto"But he was there last night: on the Tarmac at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport to meet and greet those Russians whose release he had secured from foreign jails; part of the largest prisoner swap between Russia and the West since the Cold War.
Out of the plane and down the steps came 10 people, including...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Russia has freed Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich and ex-US Marine Paul Whelan as part of an extensive prisoner swap between Moscow and the West, US President Joe Biden has confirmed.
“Today, three American citizens and one American green-card holder who were unjustly imprisoned in Russia are finally coming home: Paul Whelan, Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva, and Vladimir Kara-Murza,” Biden said in a statement on Thursday.
“The deal that secured their freedom was...
(BBC News) A renowned NGO that was invited by Venezuelan officials to monitor Sunday's presidential poll has said the election "cannot be considered democratic."
The US-based Carter Center deployed 17 experts and observers to Venezuela after being asked to monitor the election by the National Electoral Council (CNE).
On Monday, the CNE – which is dominated by government allies – declared President Nicolás Maduro the winner, but the result has been disputed by the opposition, which...
(BBC News) "Thugs" who travelled to Southport to use the deaths of three children "for their own political purposes" were to blame for the violence that saw dozens of police officers injured, the town's MP has said.
Unrest broke out in the Merseyside town hours after a vigil to honour the victims of Monday's knife attack at a dance school in which three young girls were killed and eight other children injured.
Patrick Hurley said the disturbance close...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Concerns about all-out regional war are once again rising after a projectile fell on a football field in a Druze community in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, killing 12 young people and injuring 30 others.
Hezbollah emphatically denied being responsible, but Israel has blamed the Lebanese group for the deadly attack.
On Sunday, Israel said it targeted several Hezbollah sites across Lebanon, as it said the armed group had crossed a “red line” and will...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) FIFA deducted six points from Canada in the Paris Olympics women’s football tournament and banned three coaches for one year each in a drone spying scandal.
The stunning swath of punishments, announced late on Saturday, includes a 200,000-Swiss-franc ($226,000) fine for the Canadian football federation in a case that has spiralled at the Summer Games.
Two assistant coaches were caught using drones to spy on opponent New Zealand’s practices before their opening game on Wednesday.
Head coach Bev Priestman,...
(BBC News) Three out of 10 French high-speed trains will be cancelled on Saturday on routes hit by a series of "co-ordinated" arson attacks.
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said security forces continued to search for the "saboteurs" responsible after rail networks were paralyzed ahead of the opening of the Olympic Games.
National rail company SNCF said services that run on Saturday will be delayed for up to two hours on major lines running in and...
(BBC News) Everything was in place.
Streets in the centre of Paris have been blocked off, metro stations closed, and thousands of police, soldiers, and other guards deployed to maintain security on the big showpiece day to kick off the Olympics.
But saboteurs struck away from the capital, at five apparently unguarded places.
France's state-owned rail company SNCF says the saboteurs either vandalized or tried to vandalize five signal boxes and electricity installations between 01:00 and 05:30 on...
(BBC News) Dozens of villagers have reportedly been killed after a gang of young men launched a series of attacks in a remote region of Papua New Guinea.
Survivors of the massacre have described hearing their neighbours' cries of pain, and watching as others were speared as they tried to flee the gang in canoes.
At least 26 people – including 16 children – were killed, local media reported, with fears the death toll may rise...
