(BBC News) One of Donald Trump's lawyers has told the BBC "nothing will change" his fight for the White House - despite being convicted following a historic trial in New York.
Jurors found Trump guilty on Thursday of falsifying business records to conceal hush-money payments made to former porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential election campaign.
Trump became the first US president to be convicted of a crime, but he has said the trial...
(BBC News) Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted there will be no permanent ceasefire in Gaza until Hamas’s military and governing capabilities are destroyed and all hostages are released.
His statement comes after US President Joe Biden announced Israel had proposed a three-stage plan to Hamas aimed at reaching a permanent ceasefire.
A senior Hamas politician has told the BBC it "will go for this deal" if Israel does.
The negotiations come as fighting continues in...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Russian forces have launched a barrage of missiles and drones across Ukraine that damaged energy infrastructure in five regions, according to Ukrainian officials.
Ukraine’s national grid operator Ukrenergo said on Saturday the attacks struck facilities in the eastern Donetsk, southeastern Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions, as well as the Kirovohrad and Ivano-Frankivsk region in the centre and west of the country, respectively.
“Today morning the Russians launched another strike on Ukrainian energy facilities....
(Al Jazeera Media Network) A New York jury has found Donald Trump guilty in a hush-money case, making him the first former US president to be convicted of a crime.
Trump has been convicted on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in relation to a hush money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
The judge overseeing the case, Juan Merchan, is expected to announce his sentencing decision on July 11.
Trump faces a maximum...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Intelligence experts have warned that Europe is under a growing threat from Russian sabotage operations, and believe those operations aim to secure concrete military results in Ukraine, political and economic costs to Europe, and nuisance value.
“We are experiencing the early stages of a systematic activation of Russian sleeper cells worldwide,” Joseph Fitsanakis, professor of Intelligence and National Security Studies at Coastal Carolina University, told Al Jazeera. “This is an unprecedented phenomenon...
(BBC News) A temporary pier built by the US military to deliver aid to Gaza has been damaged by heavy seas and will take at least a week to be repaired, according to US officials.
US forces began building the floating pier — which is attached to Gaza's shoreline by a temporary causeway — several weeks ago.
The causeway portion of the project has now reportedly broken off and will have to be repaired before being...
(BBC News) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the strike that killed scores of displaced Palestinians in Rafah on Sunday was a "tragic mishap", amid growing international condemnation of the blast.
At least 45 people were killed, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. NGOs in Rafah say they treated hundreds more for severe burns, fractures, and shrapnel wounds.
Speaking in the Israeli parliament, Netanyahu said it was vital that Israel took "every precaution possible" to protect civilians...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Hamas says it has launched rockets at Tel Aviv, prompting sirens to sound in the Israeli city for the first time in several months.
The Israeli military said on Sunday that eight rockets were launched from the Rafah area in southern Gaza, where its forces have continued a ground assault despite an order from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to halt operations there.
Israel’s air defence system intercepted several of them, the military...
(BBC News) About 670 people are estimated to be buried under a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea, a UN official says.
The head of the International Organization for Migration in the country, Serhan Aktoprak, said the impact of Friday's landslide in the isolated Enga province was greater than initially thought.
"There are an estimated 150-plus houses now buried," Aktoprak said.
The affected areas are in the highlands of Enga, in the north of the island nation...
(BBC News) This was the outcome Israel sought to avoid: a demand to halt a military operation the government regards as essential for the defeat of Hamas and the return of hostages.
But there is no immediate indication that Israel will change course as a result of Friday's ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Its tanks are pushing closer to the centre of Rafah, and just as the decision was being read out, a...
