(BBC News) The South African government has criticised the US's decision to prioritise refugee applications from white Afrikaners, saying claims of a white genocide have been widely discredited and lack reliable evidence.
It highlighted an open letter published by prominent members of the Afrikaner community earlier this week rejecting the narrative, with some signatories calling the relocation scheme racist.
The limited number of white South African Afrikaners signing up to relocate to the US was indication...
(BBC News) US President Donald Trump came away from his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping full of bombastic optimism.
He called it a "great success" and rated it 12, on a scale of 1 to 10. China was less enthusiastic. Beijing's initial statement sounds like an instruction manual, with Xi urging teams on both sides to "follow up as soon as possible".
Trump is after a deal that could happen "pretty soon", while Beijing, it...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) People across the northern Caribbean are reeling from the devastation of Hurricane Melissa as dozens of deaths are reported in Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti.
The hurricane – at Category 5, the strongest on record to hit Jamaica directly – ripped across the Caribbean islands on Tuesday and Wednesday, killing at least 25 people in Haiti, eight in Jamaica and one in the Dominican Republic.
The United States-based National Hurricane Center said early on...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The United States and South Korea have advanced trade talks, addressing details of $350 billion that would be invested in the US economy, after negotiations and ceremonies that included the presentation of a gold medal and crown to US President Donald Trump.
Both were gifts from the country’s president, Lee Jae Myung, who dialled up the flattery while Washington and Seoul worked to nail down financial promises during the last stop...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) At least 60 people, including four police officers, have been killed in a law enforcement operation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, according to local media reports.
On Tuesday, the Brazilian news outlet G1 said the death toll had risen to 64, though the government has yet to officially confirm the number.
The raid, designed to crack down on drug trafficking in the north of the city, has become the most lethal police...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Hurricane Melissa, which has been barrelling towards Jamaica, is expected to be the most powerful hurricane to ever make a direct hit on the island.
The hurricane intensified on Monday into a Category 5 storm, the most powerful on the Saffir-Simpson scale, with wind speeds exceeding 252 km/h. It was expected to make landfall on Tuesday morning, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in the United States. It said the storm...
(BBC News) Argentina's President Javier Milei has led his party to a landslide victory in Sunday's midterm elections, after defining the first two years of his presidency with radical spending cuts and free-market reforms.
His party, La Libertad Avanza, won nearly 41% of the vote, taking 13 of 24 Senate seats and 64 of the 127 lower-house seats that were contested.
His gains will make it easier for Milei to push ahead with his program to...
(BBC News) Two suspects have been arrested over the theft of precious crown jewels from Paris's Louvre museum, French media say.
The Paris prosecutor's office said one of the men had been taken into custody as he was preparing to take a flight from Charles de Gaulle Airport.
Items worth $102 million were taken from the world's most-visited museum last Sunday, when four thieves wielding power tools broke into the building in broad daylight.
France's justice minister...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Fighting has intensified in Sudan’s besieged city of el-Fasher in North Darfur, as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group claimed it had captured a government-aligned Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) base seen as their last stronghold in the western region.
An RSF spokesperson said in a statement on Sunday that its forces “managed to liberate the 6th Division in El Fasher, breaking the back of the army and its allies by establishing full...
(BBC News) Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro has accused the US of "fabricating a new war", after it ordered the world's largest warship to be sent to the Caribbean.
The USS Gerald R Ford can carry up to 90 aircraft, and its deployment marks a massive increase in US firepower in the region.
The US has conducted 10 air strikes on vessels in the area as part of what it says is a war on drug traffickers.
US...
