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(New York Times) The Mexican government said it killed the nation’s most wanted cartel boss on Sunday, a major victory in its new offensive against the country’s criminal groups and a move that could help reduce pressure from United States President Donald Trump, who has been threatening strikes in Mexico. Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho,” was the longtime leader of one of Mexico’s most powerful cartels, Jalisco New Generation Cartel, and was widely...

(Al Jazeera Media Network) Pakistan’s military early on Sunday carried out air raids in Afghanistan, targeting what it called “camps and hideouts” belonging to armed groups behind a spate of recent attacks, including a deadly suicide bombing at a Shia mosque in Islamabad. Pakistan’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said in a statement on X on Sunday that the country’s military conducted “intelligence-based, selective operations” against seven camps and hideouts belonging to the Pakistan Taliban, also known...

(Al Jazeera Media Network) United States President Donald Trump has slammed the Supreme Court as a “disgrace” after a 6-3 ruling that struck down his global tariffs, asserting that he will maintain the levies through alternative means. During a Friday news conference, the president attacked the high court for being allegedly “swayed by foreign interests”. He then proceeded to attack the justices, denouncing the liberal members as a “disgrace to our nation” and the conservatives who sided with...

(Al Jazeera Media Network) Gunmen killed at least 50 people and abducted women and children in an overnight assault on a village in northwestern Nigeria’s Zamfara State, authorities and residents said. The attack started late on Thursday night and continued into Friday morning in Tungan Dutse village in the Bukkuyum area of Zamfara when armed men arrived on motorcycles and began setting fire to buildings and abducting residents. “They have been moving from one village to...

(CNN) Bill Gates has pulled out of delivering his keynote address at an AI summit in India Thursday, his foundation said, as the billionaire faces scrutiny over his ties to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “After careful consideration, and to ensure the focus remains on the AI Summit’s key priorities, Mr. Gates will not be delivering his keynote address,” the Gates Foundation said in a statement just hours before he was due to speak. No reason was...

(Al Jazeera Media Network) The arrest of former British royal Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has sparked renewed calls for accountability for Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes and proper investigations into the late sex offender’s networks in the United States and across the world. Police in the United Kingdom detained the ex-prince, brother of King Charles, on Thursday, with authorities saying that they had opened an investigation into possible misconduct in public office without naming Mountbatten-Windsor. Reem Alsalem, the United Nations special rapporteur on...

(Al Jazeera Media Network) When armed officers from Pakistan’s Crime Control Department raided Zubaida Bibi’s home in Bahawalpur city in southern Punjab province last November, they took everything: mobile phones, cash, gold jewellery and her daughter’s wedding dowry. They also took her sons. Within 24 hours, five members of her family were dead, killed in separate “police encounters” across different districts of Pakistan’s Punjab – the province that alone is home to more than half...

(New York Times) The bodies of eight of the nine skiers overcome by an avalanche on Tuesday near Lake Tahoe have been found, Nevada County officials said in a news conference on Wednesday. One member of the group remains missing and presumed dead, in what is already the deadliest avalanche in modern California history. The skiers had been part of a group of 15, including four guides, on a three-day backcountry expedition in a rugged...

(Al Jazeera Media Network) The United States military announced that it has carried out three strikes against alleged drug-trafficking vessels in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, killing at least 11 people. US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), which oversees military activities in Latin America, said it conducted two of the strikes in the Eastern Pacific and one in the Caribbean as part of a campaign dubbed Operation Southern Spear. All three attacks were carried out late...

(Al Jazeera Media Network) An explosion at a Russian military police facility near St Petersburg has caused several floors of the building to collapse. St Petersburg’s 78 news channel, quoting an unnamed source, reported at least three people were killed and several wounded in the blast on Tuesday in the town of Sertolovo, north of Russia’s second largest city. Local website 47 News, citing emergency services, also reported three dead. Unverified images shared by several media...