(Al Jazeera Media Network) The Israeli military says five of its soldiers have been killed after Palestinian fighters detonated explosive devices during an operation in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoon area.
Israeli forces killed at least 54 Palestinians in dawn raids on Tuesday, medical sources reported, as pressure mounted on Israel to strike a ceasefire deal with Hamas.
The Israeli military said the five soldiers, aged between 20 and 28, “fell during combat in the northern Gaza Strip”,...
(BBC News) Israel says it has launched strikes on Houthi targets in three Yemeni ports, including the western port of Hudaydah, Ras Isa and Saif.
The attacks came shortly after the Israeli military issued evacuation orders for civilians in the areas, warning of imminent air strikes.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz confirmed on social media the strikes on the Houthi-controlled sites included a power station and the commercial ship the Galaxy Leader. The ship, hijacked by the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Rescuers in the US state of Texas are scrambling to locate more than two dozen children still missing from a Christian summer camp after a powerful storm caused flash floods that authorities say have killed at least 27 people.
Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha told reporters on Saturday that the death toll included at least nine children.
Leitha said around 800 people had been evacuated from the region, about 137 km northwest...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Rwandan President Paul Kagame has cautiously welcomed a United States-brokered peace deal with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), while suggesting Kigali will retaliate if provoked.
Speaking at a news conference in Kigali on Friday, Kagame said Rwanda remained committed to the agreement but questioned whether Kinshasa would uphold its part of the deal.
“If the side that we are working with plays tricks and takes us back to the problem, then...
(BBC News) One person has been killed and 26 others were injured after a night of intensive Russian strikes on almost every district in Kyiv, officials say.
A pall of acrid smoke hung over the Ukrainian capital on Friday morning following hours of nightfall punctuated by the staccato of air defence guns, buzz of drones and large explosions. Ukraine said Russia fired a record 539 drones and 11 missiles.
The strikes came hours after a call...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) A jury in the United States has found musician Sean “Diddy” Combs guilty of prostitution-related offences but cleared him of more serious charges after a federal criminal trial.
Combs, a celebrated figure in hip-hop music, was convicted on Wednesday of transportation to engage in prostitution but acquitted of racketeering conspiracy and two counts of sex trafficking.
The verdict culminates seven weeks of trial in which two of the music mogul’s former girlfriends –...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday that he would form a new political party in the United States if a Republican-leaning Congress passes President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill”, which proposes tax breaks and funding cuts for healthcare and food programs.
Musk has voiced criticism of the bill on multiple occasions over the past month and began suggesting the idea of the new party on social media starting early June.
The bill, which passed narrowly in...
(BBC News) Thailand's Constitutional Court has suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who has come under mounting pressure to resign over her leaked phone conversation with former Cambodian leader Hun Sen.
The clip, in which Paetongtarn called him “uncle” and criticised a Thai military commander, sparked public anger and a petition for her dismissal, which the court is now considering.
That could make Paetongtarn the third politician in the powerful Shinawatra clan — which has dominated Thai politics...
(BBC News) Police sources have identified 20-year-old Wess Roley as the suspect in the sniper attack on firefighters in Idaho, according to CBS News.
Two firefighters were killed and a third injured on Sunday when a gunman shot at them as they arrived at a blaze at Canfield Mountain, just north of Coeur d'Alene.
Authorities believe Roley deliberately lit the fire to lure first responders to the area.
A police tactical team later "located a deceased male"...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Twenty bodies, several of them decapitated, have been found on a highway bridge in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, Mexican authorities say, as rival drug cartel factions fight one another in the area.
The Sinaloa state prosecutor’s office reported a grisly scene on Monday: four headless corpses were found on a roadside, 16 bodies were discovered inside an abandoned vehicle near state capital Culiacan, and five human heads were found inside...
