(BBC News) A landmark decision by a top UN court has cleared the way for countries to sue each other over climate change, including over historic emissions of planet-warming gases.
But the judge at the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Netherlands on Wednesday said that untangling who caused which part of climate change could be difficult.
The ruling is non-binding but legal experts say it could have wide-ranging consequences.
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(Al Jazeera Media Network) A sweeping cyber espionage operation targeting Microsoft server software compromised about 100 different organizations over the weekend.
Two of the organizations that helped uncover the attack announced their findings on Monday.
On Saturday, Microsoft issued an alert about “active attacks” on self-hosted SharePoint servers, which are widely used by organizations to share documents and collaborate within others. SharePoint instances run off of Microsoft servers were unaffected.
Dubbed a “zero-day” because it leverages a previously undisclosed...
(BBC News) Twenty-eight countries have called for an immediate end to the war in Gaza, where they say the suffering of civilians has "reached new depths".
A joint statement says Israel's aid delivery model is dangerous and condemns what it calls the "drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians" seeking food and water.
Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said more than 100 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire while waiting for food over the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the M23 rebel group have signed a declaration of principles in Qatar to end fighting in eastern Congo.
The declaration was signed on Saturday between representatives of both sides in Doha.
The DRC and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have been engaged in heavy fighting, spurred by M23’s bloody January assault and capture of the DRC’s two largest cities.
The decades-long conflict has roots in the 1994 Rwandan genocide,...
(BBC News) A US tech company says its chief executive has quit after he was apparently caught on a big screen at a Coldplay concert embracing a female co-worker, in a clip that went viral.
Astronomer said in a statement: "Andy Byron has tendered his resignation, and the board of directors has accepted."
The clip showed a man and a woman hugging on a jumbo screen at the arena in Foxborough, Massachusetts, before they abruptly ducked...
(BBC News) Lawmakers in the US have passed the country's first major national cryptocurrency legislation.
It is a major milestone for the once-fringe industry, which has been lobbying Congress over regulation for years and poured millions into last year's election, backing candidates that included Donald Trump.
The bill sets up a regulatory regime for so-called stablecoins, a kind of cryptocurrency backed by assets seen as reliable, such as the dollar. Trump is expected to sign the legislation into...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The United States has withdrawn from reforms introduced by the World Health Organization (WHO) last year to enhance the global response to pandemics, part of a broader push by Washington against international regulations.
The administration of President Donald Trump formally rejected on Friday the 2024 amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) that were put in place in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of...
(BBC News) US President Donald Trump has said Attorney General Pam Bondi should release "whatever she thinks is credible" on late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as he faces a rare backlash from supporters after seeking to draw a line under the issue.
Bondi has been lambasted by some of Trump's political base after her department recently said there was no evidence that Epstein kept a "client list".
This appeared to contradict her previous statements, and those...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Israel has launched several air strikes in the heart of Syrian capital Damascus as clashes continued in the southwestern city of Suwayda after a truce between government forces and Druze armed groups collapsed.
Defence Minister Israel Katz said Israeli forces struck near the entrance to the Syrian Ministry of Defence on Wednesday, hours after he had demanded Syrian government forces withdraw from Suwayda.
Another strike hit near the presidential palace, on the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian suffered minor injuries in an Israeli air strike on a meeting of the Supreme National Security Council in Tehran on June 15, a senior Iranian official said.
The assassination attempt targeted the heads of the three branches of government in an effort to overthrow it, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“This attempt will not pass without Israel paying a price,” he told Al Jazeera.
The strike...
