(BBC News) Vladimir Putin has always refused to refer to his main opponent in Russia by name, but now that Alexei Navalny is dead, he has changed tack.
After claiming his fifth term as president, he told reporters: "As for Navalny, yes he passed away, this is always a sad event."
He also suggested he had agreed Navalny could be part of a prisoner swap.
Navalny's colleagues say he was murdered in an Arctic jail by Russian...
(BBC News) Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder of the failed crypto exchange FTX, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for defrauding customers and investors of his bankrupt firm.
The ruling cements the downfall of the former billionaire, who emerged as a high-profile champion of crypto before his firm's dramatic collapse in 2022.
He was found to have stolen billions from customers ahead of the failure.
The 32-year-old said in court he knew "a lot of people feel...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Shares of former U.S. president Donald Trump’s social media company soared by as much as 59 percent on the first day of trading on Wall Street, boosting the former United States president’s expected windfall as he faces a growing list of legal bills.
The Trump Media & Technology Group reached $79.38 per share at its peak on Tuesday, before closing 16 percent higher at $57.99, giving the company a market capitalization...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) At least 18 Palestinians have died trying to recover airdropped aid in Gaza, according to Palestinian officials.
Mahmoud Bassel, a spokesperson for Gaza’s Civil Defense rescue service, said six bodies were recovered after a large group of men swam into the Mediterranean Sea on Monday to fetch aid parcels.
“Sometimes it falls into the sea, sometimes on civilians, sometimes on houses, sometimes on Israeli territory beyond the border fence,” Bassel was quoted...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) A UK court has ruled that Julian Assange should have the chance to appeal an order to extradite him to the U.S.
The High Court in London ruled on Tuesday that the WikiLeaks founder must have the right to challenge the British government’s June 2022 extradition order, unless the United States provides within three weeks assurances that he would receive a fair trial and would not face the death penalty.
At the same...
(BBC News) A major bridge in the U.S. city of Baltimore has collapsed into the Patapsco River after a container ship crashed into it.
The bridge snapped and plunged into the water at about 01:30 ET (05:30 GMT) along with vehicles and people.
A huge search operation is under way for six missing people, authorities say, while two others have been pulled from the water, one of whom was hospitalized.
All of them are believed to be part...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) An appeals court in the United States has agreed to pause the collection of Donald Trump’s $454-million civil fraud judgement, delivering a victory to the former U.S. president and preventing authorities in New York from beginning to seize his assets.
A New York state appellate court on Monday granted Trump’s request to push back the deadline for payment, as well as reduce the bond he would be required to pay while...
(BBC News) Millions of Americans' online accounts have been caught up in a "sinister" Chinese hacking plot that targeted U.S. officials, the justice department and FBI said on Monday.
Seven Chinese nationals have been charged with enacting a widespread "malicious" cyber-attack campaign.
The operation allegedly went on for over a decade.
The justice department said hackers had targeted U.S. and foreign critics of China, businesses, and politicians.
The seven men allegedly sent over 10,000 "malicious emails, impacting thousands...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) More than 130 students abducted by gunmen from a school in Nigeria earlier this month have been released “unharmed” days before a ransom deadline, say officials.
Government spokesman Abdulaziz Abdulaziz told Al Jazeera on Sunday that it “took a lot of backchannel engagement” to release the students abducted on March 7 in Kuriga, a dusty town in Kaduna state – the first mass kidnapping in Nigeria since 2021.
“ of them were...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) President Joe Biden has signed a $1.2-trillion package of spending bills after the United States Congress passed the long-overdue legislation, ending the threat of a partial government shutdown.
“The bipartisan funding bill I just signed keeps the government open, invests in the American people, and strengthens our economy and national security,” Biden said in the statement on Saturday.
The White House said Biden signed the legislation at his home in Wilmington, Delaware. It...
