(BBC News) The US Department of State has notified Congress of a planned $8 billion arms sale to Israel, an American official has confirmed to the BBC.
The weapons consignment, which needs approval from House and Senate committees, includes missiles, shells and other munitions.
The move comes just over a fortnight before President Joe Biden leaves office. Washington has rejected calls to suspend military backing for Israel because of the number of civilians killed during the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) A senior British politician has rejected Elon Musk’s criticism of the government’s handling of historic child-grooming scandals.
The US technology billionaire on Thursday accused Prime Minister Keir Starmer of failing to bring “rape gangs” to justice when he was director of public prosecutions more than a decade ago.
In a flurry of posts on X, the social media platform he owns, Musk also suggested that safeguarding minister Jess Phillips “deserves to be...
(BBC News) The stand-off started long before dawn. By the time we arrived in the dark, an army of police had pushed back suspended president Yoon Suk Yeol's angry supporters, who had camped out overnight hoping to stop his arrest. Some of those I spoke to were crying, others wailing, at what they feared was about to unfold.
As dawn broke, the first officers ran up to the house, but were instantly thwarted – blocked...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Germany’s government accused US billionaire Elon Musk on Monday of interfering in its upcoming February election after he threw his support behind the party Alternative for Germany (AfD) in X posts and an opinion piece published by the newspaper Welt am Sonntag.
German leaders accused Musk, who claimed that AfD is the only party which can “save” Germany, of trying to “influence the federal election” as the country heads toward snap...
(BBC News) The man who rented a Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside of President-elect Donald Trump's Las Vegas hotel is an active-duty US special forces soldier, officials have confirmed.
Las Vegas police identified Matthew Alan Livelsberger, 37, of Colorado, as the renter of the vehicle who drove the Cybertruck from Colorado to Las Vegas.
They said they were fairly certain he was the same person found dead in the vehicle after the explosion but were waiting...
(BBC News) Police are investigating the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Police said a cybertruck pulled up in front of the hotel on Wednesday near a glass entrance, then smoke started coming from the vehicle and it exploded.
The driver was killed and seven people were injured, police said without naming any of the individuals involved. Officials said all injuries were minor.
In a post on X, Tesla CEO...
(BBC News) Ten people were killed and at least 35 injured after a man drove into large crowds in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the early hours of New Year's Day.
Here's what we know so far about what happened and the perpetrator.
At 03:15 local time on New Year's Day, a Ford pick-up truck rammed into crowds on Bourbon Street in the heart of New Orleans' French Quarter.
CCTV footage shows a white Ford F-150 Lightning vehicle...
(BBC News) Russian gas supplies to EU states via Ukraine are to end on Wednesday, when a five-year deal between Ukraine's gas transit operator Naftogaz and Russia's Gazprom expires.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country would not allow Russia to "earn additional billions on our blood" and had given the EU a year to prepare.
The European Commission said the continent's gas system was "resilient and flexible" and that it had sufficient capacity to cope with...
(BBC News) A Chinese state-sponsored hacker has broken into the US Treasury Department's systems, accessing employee workstations and some unclassified documents, American officials said on Monday.
The breach occurred in early December and was made public in a letter penned by the Treasury Department to lawmakers notifying them of the incident.
The US agency characterized the breach as a "major incident", and said it had been working with the FBI and other agencies to investigate the...
(BBC News) When Vladimir Putin took over as acting president of Russia on the last day of the 20th Century, the former spy was an enigma to many. In History looks at how the surprise leader survived a tough childhood to rise to power in the Kremlin.
Russian president Boris Yeltsin made the shock announcement on December 31, 1999, that he was resigning, telling television viewers: "Russia must enter the new millennium with new politicians, new...
