(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iran is marking Al-Quds Day with rallies across the country as the commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) promised retaliation after Israeli strikes on Iran’s consulate in Syria.
The Israeli air strikes in Damascus killed 13 people, including seven IRGC members – among them two generals leading the Corps’ Quds Force in Syria and Lebanon.
“We warn that no action by any enemy concerning our holy establishment will go unanswered,” Hossein Salami told a...
Al Jazeera Media Network) Ukraine has reportedly repelled a battalion-sized mechanized assault on its eastern front – the first attack of such a scale in five months – proving the resilience of its defences, but raising concerns that Russia is becoming increasingly ambitious as it gears up for an expected major offensive.
The attack on Sunday reportedly included three dozen tanks and a dozen infantry fighting vehicles, and struck near Tonenke, a village close to Avdiivka,...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Revived talks on a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas appear to be making little progress, with the two sides showing few signs that they are ready to compromise on their demands.
Israeli objections to the return of displaced residents to their homes in Gaza is a key issue holding up the negotiations, Qatari officials said on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Hamas said that it will not budge on its conditions to release captives...
(BBC News) The people of Taiwan have woken up to the aftermath of its worst earthquake in a quarter of a century.
Rescue efforts continued on Thursday after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck the island's eastern coast on Wednesday at 07:58 local time (23:58 GMT).
At least nine people were killed and more than 1,000 injured when the quake hit 18 km south of Hualien.
More than 100 people are understood to be trapped in collapsed tunnels...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Israel has confirmed its forces killed seven people from the World Central Kitchen charity in Gaza as they travelled in a convoy emblazoned with the charity’s logo that had coordinated its movements with the Israeli military.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the deadly attack on the aid workers as unintended and “tragic” and pledged an independent inquiry.
“Unfortunately, in the past day, there was a tragic event in which our forces unintentionally harmed non-combatants in the...
(BBC News) The share price of Donald Trump's media company has fallen from last week's high when it officially listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
But it is still worth more than $7 billion at current prices — an astonishing sum given the business behind it?
So what is the Truth Social platform, who owns it, how many users does it have, and how much money does it make? And is it the answer to Trump's spiralling...
(BBC News) In central Kharkiv you hear the rattle of generators on every street.
Ten days ago, Ukraine's second largest city was plunged into darkness by a massive, targeted Russian missile attack on the energy system — it was the biggest since the start of the full-scale war.
As Kharkiv works to restore power, there has been a wave of additional strikes across the country targeting the energy supply.
Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned what he calls Russia's...
(BBC News) Vladimir Putin has always refused to refer to his main opponent in Russia by name, but now that Alexei Navalny is dead, he has changed tack.
After claiming his fifth term as president, he told reporters: "As for Navalny, yes he passed away, this is always a sad event."
He also suggested he had agreed Navalny could be part of a prisoner swap.
Navalny's colleagues say he was murdered in an Arctic jail by Russian...
(BBC News) Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder of the failed crypto exchange FTX, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for defrauding customers and investors of his bankrupt firm.
The ruling cements the downfall of the former billionaire, who emerged as a high-profile champion of crypto before his firm's dramatic collapse in 2022.
He was found to have stolen billions from customers ahead of the failure.
The 32-year-old said in court he knew "a lot of people feel...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Shares of former U.S. president Donald Trump’s social media company soared by as much as 59 percent on the first day of trading on Wall Street, boosting the former United States president’s expected windfall as he faces a growing list of legal bills.
The Trump Media & Technology Group reached $79.38 per share at its peak on Tuesday, before closing 16 percent higher at $57.99, giving the company a market capitalization...
