(BBC News) Two people have been killed and at least 19 others injured after a tall Mexican Navy training sailing ship crashed into New York City's Brooklyn Bridge.
Police said the Cuauhtémoc, with 277 people on board, lost power on Saturday as the captain was manoeuvring the vessel, forcing it to head for the bridge abutment on the Brooklyn side.
Footage shows the ship's towering masts clip the bridge as it passed under the structure. Crew...
(BBC News) The US has lost its last triple-A credit score from a major ratings firm after being downgraded by Moody's, which cited growing federal debt over the past decade.
In lowering the US rating to 'Aa1', Moody's noted that successive US administrations had failed to reverse ballooning deficits and interest costs.
A triple-A rating signifies a country's highest possible credit reliability, and indicates it is considered to be in very good financial health with a...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Russian and Ukrainian officials met for less than two hours in Turkiye for their first direct talks in more than three years, aimed at ending the war.
The delegations met on Friday at Istanbul’s Dolmabahce Palace in Turkiye, where the two sides failed to agree on a ceasefire despite pressure from United States President Donald Trump to end the war.
But before they adjourned, Kyiv and Moscow agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners...
(BBC News) At least 114 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip since dawn, health officials and rescuers say.
Fifty-six people, including women and children, were killed when homes and tents sheltering displaced families were bombed overnight in the southern city of Khan Younis, the local Nasser hospital said.
The Israeli military said it struck Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters in southern Gaza.
The Hamas-run Civil Defence agency also reported deadly...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) India and Pakistan have traded accusations of nuclear weapons mismanagement, days after reaching a truce following four days of cross-border fighting.
India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh questioned the safety of nuclear weapons in Pakistan on Thursday at an army base in Srinagar, in Indian-administered Kashmir, calling the neighbouring country an “irresponsible and rogue nation”.
“I believe that Pakistan’s nuclear weapons should be taken under the supervision of IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency),” Singh said.
In...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) When Abdullah Ocalan said his Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, should lay down its arms and disband after more than four decades of conflict with the Turkish state and tens of thousands of deaths, there was an instant look across the border to Syria.
Syria’s northeast is largely controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led military force Turkiye has repeatedly fought against over the past decade.
The SDF is led by...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) On Monday, the United States and China reached an agreement to slash sky-high tariffs for 90 days. Though both sides claimed they could withstand a long trade war, they reached a truce quicker than many analysts expected.
The breakthrough marked a dramatic ratcheting down of trade tensions following the tariff war launched by US President Donald Trump during his “liberation day” announcement on April 2.
Trump initially unveiled so-called reciprocal tariffs on dozens of countries before...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iraq has released more than 19,000 prisoners under a sweeping amnesty law designed to relieve pressure on its overcrowded prison system, including inmates convicted of being members of ISIL (ISIS).
The move offers legal reprieve to some individuals convicted on terrorism-related charges, judicial authorities said on Tuesday.
The law has halted all executions, including for former ISIL members. The group once controlled nearly a third of Iraq’s territory after sweeping across the...
(BBC News) President Donald Trump has said the US has "no stronger partner" than Saudi Arabia during his first major foreign trip in his second presidency – a whirlwind visit of Gulf countries mainly focused on shoring up investment.
Speaking in Riyadh, the US president also pledged to lift all sanctions against Syria, saying it was now time for the country to move forward with "a chance at greatness."
Day 1 of the tour saw the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he hopes for a ceasefire with Russia starting on Monday and says “I will be waiting for Putin” in Turkiye personally, referring to the Russian president’s offer for direct peace talks in Istanbul.
Earlier on Sunday, Zelenskyy insisted there must be a full, temporary ceasefire in place before the negotiations proposed by Putin could start.
Zelenskyy, writing on X on Sunday, said it was a “positive sign...
