(BBC News) When Kyiv launched a cross-border raid into Russia’s Kursk region bordering Ukraine, the question from some military experts was: “Why?”
One of Ukraine’s biggest battlefield issues is manpower. Russia has more soldiers and is inching closer to the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk.
So, sending hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers into Russia itself is, shall we say, counterintuitive in the eyes of some.
But not all.
"It wasn’t accidental,” said war expert Kostyantyn Mashovets in a Facebook...
(BBC News) Three scheduled Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna have been cancelled because of a reported security threat.
The shows were to take place on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at the Ernst Happel Stadium.
On Wednesday, two people were arrested on suspicion of planning attacks on large events in the area around the Austrian capital.
A statement from the organizers said: "Due to confirmation by government officials of a planned terrorist attack at the Ernst Happel Stadium, we...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Rioters have attacked people, shops, cars, and public spaces as far-right violence sweeps across the United Kingdom.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has decried “far-right thuggery”.
But members of Muslim community and activists have accused politicians, including the governing Labour party, of downplaying the levels of racism and Islamophobia taking place. They also say politicians and some media outlets are to blame for railing against migration for years.
What started the riots?
Disinformation on social media is...
(BBC News) A state of emergency has been declared in the Kursk region of Russia, as a rare cross-border attack by Ukrainian troops continued for a second day.
Acting regional governor Alexei Smirnov said the move was necessary "to eliminate the consequences of enemy forces coming into the region."
Thousands of people have been evacuated from border areas, Smirnov said earlier, adding that doctors were being brought in from other cities.
Earlier, President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine...
(BBC News) At least 80 people were killed in Bangladesh on Sunday, amid worsening clashes between police and anti-government protesters.
The unrest comes as student leaders have declared a campaign of civil disobedience to demand that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina step down.
Thirteen police officers were killed when thousands of people attacked a police station in the district of Sirajganj, police said.
The student protest started with a demand to abolish quotas in civil service jobs last...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) At least 32 people have been killed and many more wounded in a suicide bombing and gun attack on a popular beach in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, according to officials.
Al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda-linked armed group, claimed responsibility for the attack on Lido Beach late on Friday via an affiliated radio station.
The assault began when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance of Beach View Hotel. Several other attackers tried to...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) At least nine people, including a local commander of Hamas’s military wing, have been killed in two separate Israeli air strikes near Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank.
Medical sources confirmed to Al Jazeera on Saturday that one of the people killed in the first attack was Haitham Balidi, leader of the Qassam Brigades in the Nablus area. Another person was identified by a relative as one of the leaders of...
(BBC News) The US embassy in Beirut has urged its citizens to leave Lebanon on “any ticket available,” amid soaring tensions in the Middle East.
The advisory follows a similar warning from UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, who said the regional situation “could deteriorate rapidly.”
Iran has vowed “severe” retaliation against Israel, which it blames for the death of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on Wednesday. His assassination came hours after Israel killed Hezbollah commander...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The United States military has announced the deployment of additional resources to the Middle East, including an aircraft carrier, amid growing concerns about the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran.
On Friday, the Pentagon revealed it would send an additional fighter jet squadron, Navy cruisers and destroyer ships to the Middle East.
“We’ve demonstrated since October and again in April the United States’s global defence is dynamic, and the department retains...
(BBC News) It is something Vladimir Putin does rarely: go to the airport to meet people off of a plane. Personally.
<p dir="auto"But he was there last night: on the Tarmac at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport to meet and greet those Russians whose release he had secured from foreign jails; part of the largest prisoner swap between Russia and the West since the Cold War.
Out of the plane and down the steps came 10 people, including...
