(BBC News) Rudy Giuliani, a longtime associate of former President Donald Trump, has filed for bankruptcy just days after he was ordered to pay $148 million in a defamation case.
He was ordered to pay the sum after a judge found he defamed two Georgia election workers over claims they tampered with votes in 2020.
The filing shows he owes millions of dollars in legal fees and unpaid taxes.
A spokesman said the move should "be a...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The United States has reached a deal to secure the release of 10 citizens from Venezuela, including six people who it said had been wrongfully detained, according to the White House.
As part of the agreement, U.S. President Joe Biden agreed to grant clemency to Alex Saab, a Colombian businessman and ally of President Nicolas Maduro who was in a Miami jail awaiting trial on a charge of money laundering.
Saab, who was...
(BBC News) Colorado's Supreme Court has ruled that Donald Trump cannot run for president next year in the state, citing a constitutional insurrection clause.
The court ruled 4-3 that Trump was not an eligible candidate because he had engaged in an insurrection over the US Capitol riot nearly three years ago.
The Trump campaign called the decision anti-democratic and vowed to appeal.
It is the first use of Section 3 of the US Constitution's 14th Amendment to disqualify a presidential candidate.
Similar attempts to...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The United Nations Security Council has voted unanimously in favour of gradually phasing out its peacekeeping operations known as MONUSCO in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The 15-member body voted on Tuesday to draw down peacekeeping forces in the Central African nation about a year earlier than originally scheduled despite continued concerns over violence.
The decision was made as the DRC prepares for presidential and parliamentary elections on Wednesday, in which poverty...
(BBC News) Gas pollution could hit Iceland's capital after a volcano began erupting late on Monday, the country's meteorological office has said.
The eruption, which broke out on the Reykjanes peninsula of southwest Iceland, comes after weeks of intense earthquakes and tremors.
Fumes could reach Reykjavik by Tuesday evening.
About 4,000 people were evacuated last month from Grindavik, a fishing town threatened by the lava flow.
Iceland has been braced for volcanic activity for weeks. Since late October,...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The Russian president has dismissed the United States president’s claims that Moscow could attack a NATO country in the future as “complete nonsense”, saying such a conflict would run counter to his country’s interests.
Vladimir Putin made the statement in an interview with Russian state TV on Sunday, weeks after US President Joe Biden warned that if Putin achieved victory in Ukraine, he might be emboldened to attack a NATO ally, sparking a...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Three Israeli hostages killed in Gaza by Israeli forces were shirtless and one of them was holding up a white flag, according to an initial inquiry into the incident, a military official has said.
The incident took place in an area of intense combat where Hamas fighters operate in civilian attire and use deception tactics, the Israeli official said on Saturday.
A soldier saw the hostages emerging tens of metres from Israeli...
(BBC News) Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has warned he could "pull the handbrake" on future financial aid to Ukraine, after slapping a veto on a $55-billion EU package intended to help his neighbour survive the next three years.
It is not the first time he has stood in the way of his European Union colleagues doing their best to help Kyiv through Russia's invasion.
However, he did, grudgingly, let Ukraine and Moldova start formal negotiations...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The Israeli army has killed three captives held by Palestinian armed groups in Gaza after “mistakenly” identifying them as a threat, according to Israeli military officials.
The military said on Friday that the captives were killed during combat with Palestinian groups in Gaza and expressed its condolences to the families while saying there would be “full transparency” in the investigation into the incident, which is “under review”.
“During combat in Shujayea, the ...
(BBC News) Tesla is recalling more than two million cars after the U.S. regulator found its driver assistance system, Autopilot, was partly defective.
It follows a two-year investigation into crashes which occurred when the tech was in use.
The recall applies to almost every Tesla sold in the U.S. since the Autopilot feature was launched in 2015.
Tesla said it would send a software update "over the air" to fix the issue.
The update happens automatically and does not require...
