(Al Jazeera Media Network) Syria has taken full control of all military sites where US forces had previously been deployed, completing a handover that Damascus says reflects the successful absorption of Kurdish-led fighters into national structures.
The announcement on Thursday comes after the final convoy of US soldiers and equipment departed Qasrak air base, located in the northeastern governorate of Hasakah, ending a military presence that began in 2014 when US forces entered the fight against ISIL...
(New York Times) Japan said it would provide about $10 billion in financial support to help Southeast Asian nations cope with soaring oil prices that threaten production of petroleum-derived products in the region.
Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, announced the initiative on Wednesday at a regional forum that included Japan and major Southeast Asian economies such as Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia.
The pledge comes as much of Asia is being buffeted by disruptions in oil supplies...
(BBC News) Australia's wealthiest person Gina Rinehart must part with some of her riches, a court has ruled in a high-profile dispute over her mining empire.
Worth an estimated A$38 billion (£20bn; US$27 billion), Rinehart inherited the iron ore ventures of her father in 1992, before going on to develop mines in the mineral-rich Pilbara region of Western Australia (WA).
Two of her children and the heirs of her late father's business partners argued they were...
(BBC News) China has called the US naval blockade of Iranian ports "irresponsible and dangerous".
Beijing's foreign ministry said the move would "undermine the already-fragile ceasefire agreement" and further jeopardise the safety of ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway Iran effectively closed in response to US-Israeli strikes.
The blockade came into force on Monday, a day after peace talks between the US and Iran broke down in Pakistan.
US President Donald Trump has...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) On November 20, 2025, Colombian police burst into a shipping container in Buenaventura, Colombia’s largest port on the Pacific Coast, foiling a scheme to smuggle 14 tonnes of cocaine, valued at $390 million.
It was the Colombian police’s largest cocaine seizure in a decade — and a sign of Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s ramped-up campaign to intercept drugs.
Since taking office last year, United States President Donald Trump has repeatedly accused Petro...
(BBC News) The results of the general election in Peru have been delayed after tens of thousands of people were unable to vote due to technical and logistical problems at a number of polling stations.
The electoral authorities have granted a one-day extension to more than 50,000 voters who could not cast their ballots on Sunday.
A preliminary count of half the votes that were cast put conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori slightly ahead of the right-wing...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) More than 12 hours of face-to-face negotiations between the United States and Iran ended without agreement in Islamabad on Sunday, leaving a fragile two-week ceasefire as the only barrier between diplomacy and a return to war.
Pakistan, which spent weeks positioning itself as a mediator and succeeded in bringing both sides into the same room, emerged with its role intact. But officials acknowledge the harder phase now begins — getting American and Iranian negotiators back...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Hungary’s longtime Prime Minister Viktor Orban has conceded defeat in the country’s parliamentary election after partial official results showed Peter Magyar’s Tisza party winning by a landslide.
“Prime Minister Viktor Orban just called to congratulate us on our victory,” Magyar posted on social media on Sunday as the results rolled in.
With 97.35 percent of precincts counted, Magyar’s centre-right party secured 138 seats in the 199-seat parliament on 53.6 percent of the...
(BBC News) The four astronauts who flew in NASA's Artemis II mission around the Moon have splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean after a flawless return.
The crew safely boarded a waiting ship and is recovering from a nine-day voyage that took them farther from Earth than any humans in history.
Their Orion spacecraft was travelling at more than 38,600 km/h when it hit the Earth's upper atmosphere and its heatshield was subjected to temperatures...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iraq’s parliament has elected Nizar Amedi as the country’s new president, ending a political deadlock that had paralysed government formation.
Amedi was nominated by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and secured 227 votes in a second round of voting on Saturday, comfortably defeating independent candidate Muthanna Amin Nader, who received 15 votes.
He becomes the sixth Iraqi head of state since the removal of Saddam Hussein in a US-led invasion in...
