(BBC News) Vladimir Putin has approved changes to Russia’s nuclear doctrine, setting out new conditions under which the country would consider using its arsenal.
The doctrine now says an attack from a non-nuclear state, if backed by a nuclear power, will be treated as a joint assault on Russia.
The update was proposed in September and rubber stamped on Tuesday, the 1,000th day of the war with Ukraine.
It follows Washington’s decision on Monday to allow Ukraine to fire...
(BBC News) Thousands of people are gathering to take the final steps in a march on New Zealand’s parliament to demonstrate against a controversial bill seeking to overhaul the country's founding document between British colonizers and Māori people.
Hotels are sold out in the capital Wellington – up to 30,000 people are expected to attend Tuesday’s rally outside parliament.
The demonstration marks the end of a nine-day hīkoi, or peaceful protest, that has been making its...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) United States President Joe Biden has reportedly lifted restrictions on Kyiv on the use of long-range missiles, which means Ukrainian forces may fire American-made missiles inside Russian territory for the first time.
The move, which comes weeks before Biden leaves office and hours after massive Russian missile and drone attacks, has angered the Kremlin, which accused Washington of “throwing oil on the fire.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the decision would mean Washington’s direct...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Leaders of the G7 alliance have reaffirmed support for Ukraine “for as long as it takes” as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he wants to end the war through talks next year.
The Ukrainian president said in a radio interview aired on Saturday that his side will do everything possible so that the war with Russia’s invading forces ends in 2025 “through diplomatic means”.
The previous day, he said that the re-election of...
(BBC News) As the world waits to see how the return of Donald Trump will reshape relations between Washington and Beijing, China has just taken decisive action to entrench its position in Latin America.
Trump won the US presidential election on a platform that promised tariffs as high as 60% on Chinese-made goods. Further south, a new China-backed megaport has the potential to create new trade routes that will bypass North America entirely.
President Xi Jinping...
(BBC News) German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday that Russia’s deployment of North Korean troops against Ukraine was a “grave escalation” of the conflict, according to government sources.
In the first phone call between the leaders in nearly two years, Scholz called on Putin to end the war and pull Russian troops out of Ukraine.
The Kremlin described the conversation as "a detailed and frank exchange of opinions on the situation...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Protesters opposing a proposed measure that would allow Russians to buy property in the Georgian territory of Abkhazia have stormed into the secessionist region’s parliament building and clashed with police.
The parliament in the regional capital of Sukhumi was set to discuss ratifying the measure on Friday but postponed the session as the demonstrators gathered outside the gates of the government compound that includes the legislature’s building and the presidential office.
Protesters used a...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) At least 15 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on residential buildings in Damascus, Syrian state media reported.
“The Israeli enemy launched an air aggression from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan , targeting residential buildings in the Mazzeh neighbourhood of Damascus and the Qudssaya area in the Damascus countryside, killing 15 people and injuring 16 others,” the ministry said on Thursday, adding that the death toll could rise.
The Israeli military...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) It was a record-breaking fundraising campaign: Vice President Kamala Harris raised more than $1 billion in less than four months, during which she strove to win the US presidency, after President Joe Biden withdrew from the race in July.
Now, as the dust settles on her failed bid, following her November 5 loss to Donald Trump, a storm threatens over those very finances, after a Democratic National Convention (DNC) official declared that the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Authorities in the United States have raided the home of the chief executive of Polymarket, a betting platform that drew widespread attention for strongly favouring Donald Trump to win the presidential election.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation executed a search warrant on CEO Shayne Coplan at his Manhattan home on Wednesday.
The New York Post, which first reported the raid, said that Coplan, 26, was roused from bed at 6 a.m. by...
