(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...
(BBC News) Former President Donald Trump is safe following gunshots "in his vicinity", his campaign said, after an incident took place near his Florida golf club on Sunday.
Secret Service agents saw a man pointing a rifle at the golf course where Trump was apparently located at the time, law enforcement sources told CBS News.
Agents fired multiple times at the suspect, who tried to run away, the sources said, adding that a suspect is now...
(BBC News) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Yemen's Houthis will pay a "heavy price" after a missile fired by the group landed in central Israel.
The Israeli military said the missile landed in an uninhabited area early on Sunday, but that shrapnel indicated air defence systems had failed to destroy it before it entered Israeli airspace.
It added that it was investigating how the missile was able to reach so far into Israeli territory.
The...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Russia and Ukraine have exchanged 103 prisoners of war from each side, both countries confirmed, with the United Arab Emirates acting as an intermediary.
The Russian Ministry of Defence said on Saturday that it swapped 103 Ukrainian soldiers held captive for an equal number of Russian POWs.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said: “Our people are home.”
The exchange was facilitated in the UAE’s eighth such mediation, the Gulf nation’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a co-founder of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, has pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking, murder and other charges in a New York court, months after his dramatic arrest and transfer into United States custody.
Zambada entered the plea to the 17 felony counts he faces, which include money laundering and weapons charges, at a hearing on Friday in Brooklyn, New York.
US Magistrate Judge James Cho ordered that...
(BBC News) The headline in this morning’s Kommersant newspaper captured the drama.
“Vladimir Putin draws his red line.”
Will the West cross it? And, if it does, how will Russia respond?
Speaking in St Petersburg, President Putin sent a clear warning to the West: don’t allow Ukraine to use your long-range missiles to strike Russian territory.
Moscow, he said, would view that as the “direct participation” of NATO countries in the war in Ukraine.
“It would substantially change the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) When Pakistan reached yet another staff-level agreement (SLA) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in July for a $7-billion, three-year loan program, it was hailed as a lifeline for both the government, which had assumed office only months before, and the country itself, which was reeling under a severe economic crisis.
However, two months later, Pakistan is still waiting for the United States-based global lender’s approval of the program, Pakistan’s 25th...
(BBC News) A billionaire and an engineer have become the first non-professional crew to perform one of the riskiest manoeuvres in space – a spacewalk.
Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis stepped out of the SpaceX spacecraft around 15 minutes apart, starting at 11:52 BST, wearing specially designed suits.
"Back at home, we all have a lot of work to do, but from here Earth sure looks like a perfect world," Isaacman said as he exited.
It was...
(BBC News) The US, UK, France, and Germany have imposed fresh sanctions on Iran for supplying Russia with ballistic missiles for use in Ukraine.
The measures include restrictions on national carrier Iran Air's ability to fly to the UK and Europe, and travel bans and asset freezes on a number of Iranians accused of facilitating military support for Russia.
Visiting London, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Russians had been trained by Iranian forces to...