(BBC News) In a headline speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Kamala Harris focused on unity and working-class aspiration, pledging to lead "for all Americans" and create an "opportunity economy".
She leaned heavily on protecting the right to abortion — an issue that has helped motivate Democratic voters in recent elections.
Demonstrations have been taking place outside the convention in opposition to US support of Israel’s war in Gaza.
Meanwhile, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Israeli negotiators have reportedly arrived for the next round of ceasefire talks in Cairo, where the issue of the Egypt-Gaza border is expected to be discussed.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denied reports suggesting Israel is considering agreeing to an international force being deployed along the Philadelphi Corridor, the narrow border strip separating Gaza and Egypt.
US envoy to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield has urged calm in the Middle East as she told the...
(BBC News) The former co-defendant of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch – who is missing off the Italian coast – has died after being hit by a car.
Stephen Chamberlain, 52, was Lynch's co-defendant in his US fraud trial in which both men were acquitted following the $11-billion sale of the software giant Autonomy.
Chamberlain died after being struck by the vehicle while out running in Cambridgeshire on Saturday.
Lynch and his daughter are missing after a luxury yacht...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The mpox outbreak is not another COVID-19, says the World Health Organization, because much is already known about the virus and the means to control it.
While more research is needed on the clade 1b strain that triggered the UN agency to declare a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), the spread of mpox can be reined in, the WHO’s European director Hans Kluge said on Tuesday.
In July 2022, the WHO declared a...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Ukrainian authorities have issued an urgent order to families with children to evacuate the eastern city of Pokrovsk, where the Russian army is bearing down fast despite a Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region.
Local authorities said Russian forces are advancing so quickly that families must leave the city and other nearby towns and villages starting Tuesday. Around 53,000 people still live in Pokrovsk, officials say, while some have already fled their...
(BBC News) Iran was behind the recent hack of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, US intelligence officials have confirmed.
The FBI and other federal agencies said in a joint statement that Iran had chosen to interfere in the US election "to stoke discord and undermine confidence in our democratic institutions."
The Trump campaign pointed the finger at Iran on August 10 for hacking its internal messages. Iranian officials denied it.
Sources familiar with the investigation told CBS News...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Hundreds of thousands of Indian health workers and their supporters have launched a nationwide strike to protest against the rape and murder of a trainee doctor last week at a government hospital in the eastern city of Kolkata.
Many of the protests on Saturday were led by doctors and other healthcare workers, who were joined by tens of thousands of Indians demanding action.
Hospitals and clinics across India turned away patients, except for emergency...
(BBC News) When breaker Rachael Gunn – aka Raygun – bombed out of the Paris Olympics, the shockwaves hit a tiny hip-hop scene on the other side of the world.
In a Sydney warehouse-turned-community centre, breakers warm up with ab exercises that would make a Pilates teacher cry, before taking to the floor with acrobatic moves so intricate you can barely make them out.
It is one of the most important events of the year – a...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Ukraine’s continuing incursion has played to its strengths: movement, tactical innovation, and the ability to exploit small successes to bigger achievements.
Ukraine has also managed to leverage the limited resources it has and a picture is now emerging of new arms used in novel ways that have caught Russian forces off-guard and kept them off balance.
Both Russia and Ukraine extensively use drones of all types for reconnaissance and attack. But Ukraine’s innovation is...
(BBC News) Calls to denounce “die-hard" Taiwanese secessionists, a tipline to report them, and punishments that could include the death penalty for “ringleaders” – Beijing’s familiar rhetoric against Taiwan is turning dangerously real.
The democratically governed island has grown used to China’s claims. Even the planes and ships that test its defences have become a routine provocation. But the recent moves to criminalize support for it are unnerving Taiwanese who live and work in China, and...
