(Al Jazeera Media Network) The Israeli military says it has withdrawn its ground troops from the southern Gaza Strip, including Khan Younis, amid conflicting reports about the scale and duration of the disengagement.
“Today, Sunday, April 7th, the IDF’s 98th commando division has concluded its mission in Khan Younis. The division left the Gaza Strip in order to recuperate and prepare for future operations,” the army said in a statement.
“A significant force led by the 162nd...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Ukraine has struck the dome above a shutdown reactor at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear station, the plant’s Russian-installed administration said.
It was not immediately clear what weapon was used in Sunday’s attack against the nuclear plant, which was taken by Russian forces shortly after their full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, although the Russian state-owned nuclear agency Rosatom said the site had come under a drone attack.
Radiation levels were normal and...
(BBC News) Populist Peter Pellegrini has been elected president of Slovakia, succeeding the liberal Zuzana Caputova.
Pellegrini, 48, defeated the pro-western Ivan Korčok, a former diplomat, with 53% of the vote.
A former prime minister, he is an ally of Prime Minister Robert Fico, and shares the PM's dovish attitude toward Russia.
Fico and his allies now control Slovakia's parliament, government, and soon the president's office.
Slovakia had been one of Ukraine's staunchest allies before Fico came to power...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iran is marking Al-Quds Day with rallies across the country as the commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) promised retaliation after Israeli strikes on Iran’s consulate in Syria.
The Israeli air strikes in Damascus killed 13 people, including seven IRGC members – among them two generals leading the Corps’ Quds Force in Syria and Lebanon.
“We warn that no action by any enemy concerning our holy establishment will go unanswered,” Hossein Salami told a...
Al Jazeera Media Network) Ukraine has reportedly repelled a battalion-sized mechanized assault on its eastern front – the first attack of such a scale in five months – proving the resilience of its defences, but raising concerns that Russia is becoming increasingly ambitious as it gears up for an expected major offensive.
The attack on Sunday reportedly included three dozen tanks and a dozen infantry fighting vehicles, and struck near Tonenke, a village close to Avdiivka,...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Revived talks on a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas appear to be making little progress, with the two sides showing few signs that they are ready to compromise on their demands.
Israeli objections to the return of displaced residents to their homes in Gaza is a key issue holding up the negotiations, Qatari officials said on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Hamas said that it will not budge on its conditions to release captives...
(BBC News) The people of Taiwan have woken up to the aftermath of its worst earthquake in a quarter of a century.
Rescue efforts continued on Thursday after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck the island's eastern coast on Wednesday at 07:58 local time (23:58 GMT).
At least nine people were killed and more than 1,000 injured when the quake hit 18 km south of Hualien.
More than 100 people are understood to be trapped in collapsed tunnels...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Israel has confirmed its forces killed seven people from the World Central Kitchen charity in Gaza as they travelled in a convoy emblazoned with the charity’s logo that had coordinated its movements with the Israeli military.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the deadly attack on the aid workers as unintended and “tragic” and pledged an independent inquiry.
“Unfortunately, in the past day, there was a tragic event in which our forces unintentionally harmed non-combatants in the...
(BBC News) The share price of Donald Trump's media company has fallen from last week's high when it officially listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
But it is still worth more than $7 billion at current prices — an astonishing sum given the business behind it?
So what is the Truth Social platform, who owns it, how many users does it have, and how much money does it make? And is it the answer to Trump's spiralling...
(BBC News) In central Kharkiv you hear the rattle of generators on every street.
Ten days ago, Ukraine's second largest city was plunged into darkness by a massive, targeted Russian missile attack on the energy system — it was the biggest since the start of the full-scale war.
As Kharkiv works to restore power, there has been a wave of additional strikes across the country targeting the energy supply.
Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned what he calls Russia's...
