(Al Jazeera Media Network) A United States defence contractor must pay $42 million to three Iraqi men who were tortured at Abu Ghraib prison, a US federal jury has ruled.
The ruling on Tuesday ends a 15-year legal battle over the role of Virginia-based contractor CACI, whose civilian employees worked at the facility, in acts of torture that took place there.
In holding the firm liable, the jury awarded plaintiffs Suhail Al Shimari, Salah Al-Ejaili and Asa’ad Al-Zubae...
(BBC News) Donald Trump has selected Florida congressman Michael Waltz as the next National Security Advisor, two sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
Waltz is a long-time Trump supporter who last week won re-election for what would have been his third term in Congress.
It comes as Trump continues to make more key appointments ahead of his return to the White House in January.
Loyalists of the president-elect, including Lee Zeldin, one of his staunchest impeachment defenders, and Tom Homan,...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The US military has carried out strikes against targets in Syria in what the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) said was a response to recent attacks on US forces by “Iranian-aligned targets” in the country.
CENTCOM’s commander General Michael Erik Kurilla said in a statement early on Tuesday that the US military action sent a “clear” message to armed groups backed by Iran and operating in Syria.
“Attacks against US and coalition...
(BBC News) Russia and Ukraine have carried out their largest drone attacks against each other since the start of the war.
Russia's defence ministry said it intercepted 84 Ukrainian drones over six regions, including some approaching Moscow, which forced flights to be diverted from three of the capital's major airports.
Ukraine's air force said Russia launched 145 drones towards every part of the country on Saturday night, with most shot down.
The barrages come amid expectations that US...
(BBC News) Someone moved the UK's oldest satellite, and there appears to be no record of exactly who, when, or why.
Launched in 1969, just a few months after humans first set foot on the Moon, Skynet-1A was put high above Africa's east coast to relay communications for British forces.
When the spacecraft ceased working a few years later, gravity might have been expected to pull it even further to the east, over the Indian Ocean.
But...
(BBC News) The US government has brought charges against an Iranian man in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate Donald Trump before he was elected as the next president.
The Department of Justice on Friday unsealed an indictment against Farhad Shakeri, 51, alleging he was tasked with “providing a plan” to kill Trump.
The US government said Shakeri has not been arrested and is believed to be in Iran.
In a criminal complaint filed in Manhattan...
(BBC News) Germany's governing coalition has collapsed after Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired a key minister and said he would call a vote of confidence in his government early next year.
The chancellor said he had no trust in Finance Minister Christian Lindner, who heads the pro-business Free Democrats and has been part of the coalition along with Scholz's Social Democrats and the Greens.
The crisis inside the coalition plunged Europe's largest economy into political chaos, hours...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Police in Mozambique have fired tear gas in the capital Maputo to disperse people protesting against the government over alleged fraud in last month’s elections.
The demonstration on Thursday was the biggest yet against the governing Frelimo party, which was declared the winner of the October 9 election, extending its 49-year rule.
Large crowds of mostly young men barricaded streets with burning tires and waved homemade signs in support of opposition leader...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Republican Donald Trump has won the US presidential election in a stunning comeback, The Associated Press news agency reports, with his projected victory in Wisconsin clearing the 270 Electoral votes needed to secure a return to the White House.
Speaking in West Palm Beach, Florida, before the latest results came in, Trump pledged to bring a “golden age” to the United States, praising what he called “the greatest political movement of all time.”
World leaders rushed to...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) A fresh political storm has engulfed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following the arrest of a number of people in connection with an alleged leak of classified documents from his office.
The documents in question are alleged to be Hamas military strategy documents, found by Israeli military intelligence in Gaza and subsequently manipulated by suspects within, or close to, the prime minister’s office and defence establishment.
The documents are then said to...
