(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.
The latest...
(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...
