(Al Jazeera Media Network) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has begun a high-stakes visit to the United States during which he will present Kyiv’s plan to end the more than two-and-a-half-year-old war against invading Russian forces to US President Joe Biden as well as election rivals Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
Zelenskyy, who will also attend the annual meeting of the United Nations on Tuesday and Wednesday, urged Ukraine’s allies to help achieve “a shared victory for a...
(BBC News) Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets from Lebanon overnight, landing much deeper into Israel than in previous attacks.
Residential buildings in Kiryat Bialik were set alight and some people were injured. Rescue teams arrived at the scene to treat the wounded, while Israeli security forces cordoned off the area.
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(Al Jazeera Media Network) The United States Secret Service has acknowledged a series of security failures it made during a July campaign rally where Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was shot at and wounded in the ear.
In a review of the July 13 assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, the Secret Service identified “deficiencies” in advanced security planning and poor coordination with local police, said the agency’s acting director, Ronald Rowe.
“While some members of the advance team...
(BBC News) The Israeli military has issued an update on yesterday's strike in southern Lebanon, saying it has killed a dozen senior commanders in Hezbollah's elite Radwan force.
In what it describes as a "precise strike", the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says it killed Ibrahim Aqil – head of operations and Radwan commander – and 15 other Hezbollah members.
The group had been meeting in Dahieh, a known stronghold of the Iran-backed group in the Lebanese...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) An estimated 77 people have been killed in an attack on Mali’s capital, Bamako, according to the AFP news agency.
About 200 others were injured in the attack, which took place on Tuesday and caused hospitals to be overwhelmed with wounded patients, a diplomat who asked to remain anonymous told the news agency. It’s unclear how the victims were wounded; however, residents reported gunshots and explosions. There was also smoke from apparent...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Israel will face “a crushing response from the axis of resistance,” the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hossein Salami, has told Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, according to state media.
Salami made the statement on Thursday after unprecedented attacks in the previous two days targeting Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies, which killed 37 people and wounded more than 2,900 when hundreds of devices were detonated almost simultaneously.
The “axis of resistance” refers to Iran-aligned armed...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Israel has intensified attacks on southern Lebanon, launching dozens of air raids amid fears of a wider escalation in the region.
Israeli warplanes targeted the towns of Mahmoudieh, Ksar al-Aroush and Birket Jabbour in the Jezzine area on Thursday, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported.
Three unnamed Lebanese security sources told the news agency Reuters it was some of the most intense bombing since the start of the war in Gaza in October...
(BBC News) Thousands of people have been injured in Lebanon, after pagers used by the armed group Hezbollah to communicate exploded almost simultaneously across the country on Tuesday.
At least 12 people were killed — including two children — Lebanese officials said. Some 2,800 were injured, many of them seriously.
It is unclear how the attack — which looks to have been highly sophisticated — occurred, though Hezbollah has blamed its adversary Israel. Israeli officials have...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Lawyers for the social media app TikTok and parent company ByteDance are squaring off in court with the United States Justice Department over a potential ban that the companies say would violate US freedom of speech laws.
On Monday, a three-judge federal US Court of Appeals panel in Washington, DC, began hearing oral arguments from both sides.
The video-sharing app used by 170 million people in the US has argued a ban would be...
(BBC News) The United States has dismissed claims made by Venezuela that the CIA plotted to assassinate President Maduro and other top officials.
Three US citizens, two Spaniards and one Czech national have been arrested on suspicion of plotting to destabilize the country, Venezuela's interior minister said.
Calling the detainees “mercenaries”, Diosdado Cabello claimed that the CIA “is leading the operation” and that hundreds of weapons had been seized.
The US rejected the claims, which came after Washington placed 16...
