(Al Jazeera Media Network) United States military cargo planes have air-dropped food into Gaza, in the first of a series of aid drops as humanitarian groups criticize Israel for blocking access to the besieged and bombarded strip.
The U.S., together with Jordan’s air force, “conducted a combined humanitarian assistance airdrop into Gaza … to provide essential relief to civilians affected by the ongoing conflict,” US Central Command said in a statement on Saturday.
The C-130 planes...
(BBC News) Germany has admitted the apparent hack by Russia of a military meeting in which officers discussed giving Ukraine long-range missiles and possible targets.
Audio of the video-conference meeting was posted to social media by the head of Russia's state-run RT channel.
The officers discuss how the missiles could hit the Kerch Bridge, which links Russia to illegally annexed Crimea.
Russian politicians said the audio proved that its "sworn enemy" was planning attacks.
Germany's chancellor Olaf Scholz on...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) A member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and two other people have been killed in a suspected Israeli attack in Syria, Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported.
IRNA said Reza Zarei, a member of the IRGC, had been “killed at dawn today by the usurping Zionist regime” in the port city of Baniyas.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor corroborated the news of Friday’s attack.
It said three explosions...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Palestinian leaders and neighbouring countries have condemned Israel’s targeting of unarmed Palestinians collecting aid in Gaza, in an attack that has reportedly killed more than 100 people.
The office of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said an “ugly massacre conducted by the Israeli occupation army” had taken place, following reports on Thursday that Israeli forces opened fire on people receiving aid southwest of Gaza City.
The Gaza Ministry of Health said at least 112 people were...
(BBC News) In his annual state of the nation address, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned western countries against sending troops to Ukraine.
The consequences of such a decision would be "tragic", he said.
Putin accused the West of trying to drag Russia into an arms race.
At the same time, he said that Russia needed to strengthen its defences on its western border now that Sweden and Finland were joining NATO.
Putin said the West "provoked" the conflict in Ukraine...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) New Zealand’s conservative government has introduced a new bill to dismantle an agency set up to improve health outcomes for the Pacific nation’s Maori people.
Health Minister Shane Reti said on Tuesday the Maori Health Authority will be shut down by the end of June and that its functions will be absorbed by the national health system.
The legislation heralds the “start of a new vision for Maori health,” he said.
Known as...
(BBC News) Several NATO countries, including the U.S., Germany and the UK, have ruled out deploying ground troops to Ukraine, after French President Emmanuel Macron said "nothing should be excluded."
Macron said there was "no consensus" on sending western soldiers to Ukraine.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has warned of direct conflict if NATO troops deploy there.
Russian forces have recently made gains in Ukraine, and Kyiv has urgently appealed for more weapons.
Macron told a news conference on...
(BBC News) A U.S. airman has died after setting himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC.
The man was identified by police as Aaron Bushnell, 25, of San Antonio, Texas.
Officers from the US Secret Service extinguished the flames before the man was taken to hospital on Sunday afternoon.
Before setting himself on fire, he said he would "no longer be complicit in genocide."
In a video aired live on streaming site Twitch,...
(BBC News) Donald Trump is one step closer to the Republican presidential nomination after a massive win over Nikki Haley in South Carolina.
The former president won his primary opponent's home state by a 20-point margin, his fourth consecutive victory.
As he celebrated, Trump made no mention of Haley, who vowed to stay in the race. Instead, he set his sights on the general election in November.
That will be a likely rematch with his successor in...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) With the gaze of much of the world fixed on the carnage unfolding in Gaza, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin continues to expand his country’s reach in Africa.
Russia, in the form of the private military contractor (PMC) Wagner, has been a growing presence in Libya since at least 2018, when the group was first reported to be training troops under renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar, leader of the Libyan National Army,...
