(BBC News) Time Magazine has named Donald Trump as its Person of the Year for the second time. He also won the honour after winning the presidential election in 2016.
In his letter to readers, Time Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs credited Trump with "marshalling a comeback of historic proportions" and "driving a once-in-a-generation political realignment" that had reshaped the American presidency and altered the US's role in the world.
The Republican president-elect rang the opening bell at...
(BBC News) US President Joe Biden has issued presidential pardons to 39 Americans convicted of non-violent crimes, and commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 other people.
The White House described it as the most acts of presidential clemency issued in a single day. It comes after Biden made the decision to pardon his own son, Hunter Biden.
The US Constitution decrees that a president has the broad "power to grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the...
(BBC News) Israel has confirmed it carried out attacks on Syria's naval fleet, as part of its efforts to neutralize military assets in the country after the fall of the Assad regime.
In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its ships struck the ports at Al-Bayda and Latakia on Monday night, where 15 vessels were docked.
The BBC has verified videos showing blasts at the port of Latakia, with footage appearing to show extensive...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Qatar, Iraq and Saudi Arabia have decried Israel’s seizure of land in Syria near the occupied Golan Heights as the Israeli military continues to launch air strikes across the country.
The Qatari Foreign Ministry said on Monday that Doha considers the Israeli incursion “a dangerous development and a blatant attack on Syria’s sovereignty and unity, as well as a flagrant violation of international law.”
“The policy of imposing a fait accompli pursued by the...
(BBC News) Google has unveiled a new chip that it claims takes five minutes to solve a problem that would currently take the world's fastest supercomputers 10 septillion – or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 – years to complete.
The chip is the latest development in a field known as quantum computing – which is attempting to use the principles of particle physics to create a new type of mind-blowingly powerful computer.
Google says its new quantum chip, dubbed "Willow",...
(BBC News) Some 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since Russia's full-scale invasion began, Volodymyr Zelensky has said in a rare admission of the extent of the nation's casualties.
In a post on social media, the Ukrainian president said 370,000 injuries had been reported, though this figure included soldiers who had been hurt more than once and some of the injuries were said to be minor.
He also claimed that 198,000 Russian soldiers had been killed...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) In the early hours of Sunday morning, opposition forces declared Syria liberated from the rule of President Bashar al-Assad as opposition forces surged into the capital.
The former president in question reportedly fled Damascus, with no information yet as to which country will receive him.
The stunning collapse of more than 53 years of al-Assad family rule has been described as a historic moment – nearly 14 years after Syrians rose in peaceful...
(BBC News) As pulsating rave music boomed out of speakers set up outside Seoul's National Assembly, the protesters cheered and waved multicoloured light sticks.
"Impeach Yoon Suk Yeol! Arrest Yoon Suk Yeol!" they chanted.
The mood was festive, but the crowd was there for a serious cause – to get rid of the country's president. Police estimated the crowd to be around 100,000 people.
On Saturday morning, four days after Yoon's failed attempt to implement martial law,...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov has said he and his Iranian and Turkish counterparts are calling for “an end to hostile activities” in Syria, where opposition fighters have made a rapid advance in a major challenge to President Bashar al-Assad.
Speaking to Al Jazeera at the Doha Forum in the Qatari capital on Saturday, Lavrov said Russia, Iran, and Turkiye expressed support for “dialogue between the government and legitimate opposition” in Syria.
The three...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) A United States federal appeals court has upheld a law requiring Chinese-based ByteDance to divest itself of its popular short video app TikTok in the US by early next year or face a ban.
The decision is a complete win for the Department of Justice and opponents of the app, and a devastating blow to ByteDance. The ruling increases the possibility of an unprecedented ban in just six weeks on a...
