(Al Jazeera Media Network) A dual referendum in the Republic of Ireland on redefining family and women’s roles in the constitution has been defeated, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said.
The government supported the proposed changes, which would have widened the definition of the family and clarified the duties of women in society.
Varadkar had described Friday’s polls, which deliberately fell on International Women’s Day, as a chance to do away with “very old-fashioned, very sexist language about...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered heightened readiness for war after inspecting troops at a major military operations base in the country’s west.
The state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) did not reveal the location of the base in its report on Thursday.
The North Korean leader said the military must “dynamically usher in a new heyday of intensifying the war preparations in line with the requirements of the prevailing...
(BBC News) Five people have died after a parachute failed on an aid package dropped by air into Gaza on Friday, reports say.
An eyewitness and the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said the five were killed when at least one parachute failed to deploy and a parcel fell on them, CBS reports.
AFP news agency quoted a Gaza doctor as saying five people were killed.
It is unclear which airdrop was involved in the incident.
The US,...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Hamas says its delegation has left Egypt but talks on a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip will continue next week until an agreement is reached with Israel, whom the Palestinian group says has “thwarted” mediators’ attempts to broker a deal before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
“Hamas’s delegation left Cairo this morning for consultation with the leadership of the movement, with negotiations and efforts continuing to stop the aggression, return...
(BBC News) More than 280 Nigerian school pupils have been abducted in the north-western town of Kuriga, officials say.
The pupils were in the assembly ground around 08:30 (07:30 GMT) when dozens of gunmen on motorcycles rode through the school, one witness said.
The students, between the ages of eight and 15, were taken away, along with a teacher, they added.
Kidnap gangs, known as bandits, have seized hundreds of people in recent years, especially the northwest.
However,...
The war in Sudan threatens to trigger “the world’s largest hunger crisis,” a United Nations agency has warned.
The World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday that more than 25 million people scattered across Sudan, South Sudan, and Chad are “trapped in a spiral” of food insecurity. However, the brutal civil war shows no sign of easing after 10 months of fighting.
The “relentless violence” leaves aid workers unable to access 90 percent of people facing “emergency...
(BBC News) Elon Musk has said a suspected arson attack which has halted production at Tesla's Berlin car factory was "dumb".
An activist group says it targeted the site because of the amount of resources and labour it uses.
The company says car-making is unlikely to resume before next week, with the outage likely to cost it "in the high nine-digit euro range."
Tesla wants to double the size of its German factory – a plan which...
(BBC News) The US Supreme Court has slammed the door on Colorado's effort to remove Donald Trump from its presidential primary ballot – and on every other state that has made, or is considering, efforts to disqualify him.
The top court ruled that only Congress has the power to strike the former president from the ballot under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.
The unsigned, unanimous ruling is a significant win for Trump, whose presidential campaign...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Around 170 people were “executed” in attacks on three villages in northern Burkina Faso a week ago, a regional prosecutor has said, as violence flares in the country.
Aly Benjamin Coulibaly said in a statement on Sunday that he had received reports of the attacks on the villages of Komsilga, Nodin and Soroe in Yatenga province on February 25, with a provisional toll of “around 170 people executed.”
The attacks left others wounded and...
(BBC News) Armed gangs have stormed the main prison in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, releasing many inmates.
The vast majority of about 4,000 men held there have now escaped, a local journalist told BBC News.
Among those detained were gang members charged in connection with the 2021 killing of President Jovenel Moïse.
Violence in Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, has worsened in recent years. Gangs aiming to oust PM Ariel Henry control 80% of Port-au-Prince.
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