(BBC News) South Korea has said it will resume propaganda broadcasts against North Korea for the first time in six years in response to Pyongyang's campaign of sending rubbish-filled balloons across the border.
Over 300 North Korean balloons were detected over Saturday and Sunday with around 80 landing in the South carrying scrap paper and plastic sheets.
North Korea is yet to respond to the announcement, but Pyongyang considers the loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts an act of...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The Israeli military says its forces have rescued four captives from central Gaza as it escalated its assault across the besieged and bombarded territory.
The announcement about the raid in Nuseirat on Saturday came as Palestinian health officials said at least 210 people were killed and wounded in Israeli attacks on central Gaza. Local residents said Nuseirat had come under heavy Israeli drone and air raids, with children among those killed.
The army said...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is “prepared for a very intense operation” along its border with Lebanon, where Israeli troops have exchanged near-daily fire with Hezbollah fighters for almost eight months.
The fighting between Israel and the Lebanese armed group, a Hamas ally, has intensified over the past week, with Israel striking deeper into Lebanese territory, raising concerns that a wider conflict could break out between the heavily armed adversaries.
“We...
(BBC News) The American Boeing company has launched its Starliner capsule toward the International Space Station (ISS) with two NASA astronauts aboard.
It is the first time the vehicle has been entrusted to carry people after coming through a long and tortuous development program.
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will be testing the capsule on a mission that is expected to last just over one week.
Starliner is scheduled to dock with the space station on Thursday.
The...
(BBC News) Gunmen have killed the female mayor of a town in Mexico just hours after the country celebrated the election of Claudia Sheinbaum as the nation's first woman president.
Yolanda Sánchez was shot in the town of Cotija, which she had governed since September 2021.
She was the first woman to be elected to the post.
Widespread violence against politicians has overshadowed Mexico's general election, which saw two women run for the presidency.
Yolanda Sánchez was ambushed...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Russia has vehemently denied any role in a stunt that saw several coffins appear at the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
In a statement on Tuesday, Russia’s embassy in France expressed “strong protest against a new Russophobic campaign launched in the French media” that it said is affecting the security of its citizens. The complaint came amid a string of denials by Moscow that it was seeking to influence public opinion as...
(BBC News) For the leaders of Hamas and Israel, ending the war in Gaza has become a deadly game of survival.
The terms on which the war finally ends could largely determine their political future and their grip on power. For Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, even his physical survival.
It is partly why previous negotiations have failed. It is also why the question of how to permanently end the fighting has been put off to the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun says his military is ready to “forcefully” stop Taiwan’s independence, but called for greater exchanges with the United States over the issue.
Speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue conference in Singapore on Sunday, Dong said Taiwan was the “core of core issues” for China, but Taiwan’s governing Democratic Progressive Party is incrementally pursuing separatism and bent on erasing Chinese identity.
China views Taiwan as its own territory despite...
(BBC News) One of Donald Trump's lawyers has told the BBC "nothing will change" his fight for the White House - despite being convicted following a historic trial in New York.
Jurors found Trump guilty on Thursday of falsifying business records to conceal hush-money payments made to former porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential election campaign.
Trump became the first US president to be convicted of a crime, but he has said the trial...
(BBC News) Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted there will be no permanent ceasefire in Gaza until Hamas’s military and governing capabilities are destroyed and all hostages are released.
His statement comes after US President Joe Biden announced Israel had proposed a three-stage plan to Hamas aimed at reaching a permanent ceasefire.
A senior Hamas politician has told the BBC it "will go for this deal" if Israel does.
The negotiations come as fighting continues in...
