(Al Jazeera Media Network) Israel has said that its forces have killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza.
The Israeli military said on Thursday that Sinwar has been killed on Wednesday in southern Gaza.
“After completing the process of identifying the body, it can be confirmed that Yahya Sinwar was eliminated,” the Israeli military said.
“The dozens of operations carried out by the IDF and ISA over the last year, and in recent weeks in...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has accused India’s government of orchestrating violence in the country, the latest chapter in a growing rift over New Delhi’s alleged targeting of Canada-based Sikh separatists.
Trudeau levelled the charges during an inquiry on foreign interference Wednesday, saying there are “ever clearer indications” that India violated Canada’s sovereignty by targeting Sikh dissidents in its territory.
India’s actions, Trudeau said, are a “horrific mistake”.
The statement comes two days...
(BBC News) The government says it is allowing some "eligible" Afghan special forces soldiers who fought alongside the British military to resettle in the UK, after they were previously rejected.
Under the previous government, about 2,000 Afghans who served with specialist units – known as the "Triples" – were denied permission to relocate to the UK after the Taliban takeover in 2021.
Armed forces minister Luke Pollard told the House of Commons a review had now...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Taiwan detected 153 aircraft surrounding its territory as China carried out massive military exercises, according to the self-ruled island’s defence ministry.
The “surge in warplane activity” saw a record number of aircraft spotted in the 25 hours to 6 am on Tuesday (22:00 GMT, Monday), the Ministry of National Defense said in a statement. China’s war games have once more raised tensions with the island and across the region, it noted.
Beijing deployed...
(BBC News) A spacecraft that will hunt for signs of life on one of Jupiter’s icy moons has blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
NASA launched the spacecraft at 12:06 local time (16:06 GMT) after hurricane Milton forced the mission to postpone plans last week.
Europa Clipper will now travel 2.9 billion kilometres to reach Europa, a deeply mysterious moon orbiting Jupiter.
It will not arrive until 2030, but what it finds could change what we know about...
(BBC News) A man armed with guns and a high-capacity magazine was arrested outside Donald Trump's rally in California on Saturday, police say.
Vem Miller, 49, was arrested near a checkpoint to the Coachella rally site. He was stopped and found to be in possession of multiple passports and driving licences in different names, and a fake licence plate.
The incident "did not affect the safety of former President Trump or attendees of the event," police...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) At least 67 people have been wounded in a drone attack in northern Israel, according to Israeli emergency services and local media, as the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah said it had targeted an Israeli military camp with a “swarm” of drones.
Israeli Army Radio reported that at least four people were critically wounded in the attack on Sunday in the town of Binyamina, south of Haifa.
According to Israel’s Channel 12, no warning sirens...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Two TD Bank units have pleaded guilty to United States criminal charges and agreed to pay $3 billion in combined penalties to resolve federal government probes into money laundering, US authorities have said, making it the largest bank in US history guilty for such violations.
The plea deal includes imposition of an asset cap and other limitations to its business, authorities said on Thursday. It comes after multiple government investigations into...
(BBC News) Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant says Israel's response to attacks by Iran will be “deadly, precise, and surprising”.
Speaking during a visit to an IDF intelligence unit, he calls the Iranian missile attack last week — which saw almost 200 ballistic missiles fired towards Israel — "aggressive but imprecise".
It comes as US President Joe Biden and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have spoken for the first time in weeks. The White House says Vice-President Kamala Harris...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Russian forces have reached the outskirts of the long-contested strategic town of Toretsk in eastern Ukraine.
The Ukrainian military confirmed that fighting was taking place in the town late on Monday. Torestsk is the latest key location that Russian troops have reached in recent weeks as they advance Moscow’s bid to take control of the Donetsk region.
“The situation is unstable, fighting is taking place literally at every entrance (to the city),”...
