(BBC News) Ecuadoreans are voting in the run-off of a presidential election that has been overshadowed by a crime wave that has turned the country into one of the most violent in the region.
The first round of the election was held just days after presidential candidate Fernando Villavicenio was shot dead in the capital, Quito.
Seven suspects were arrested in connection with his assassination, but have since been killed in jail.
Security is voters' main concern.
Voters will choose...
(BBC News) In the days immediately after the Hamas attack on Israel, the Republicans seeking the US presidency had focused their criticism on President Joe Biden and what they saw as American weakness and missteps that had paved the way for violence.
That changed on Wednesday night, however, when Donald Trump addressed the topic in a speech near his home in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Now some of Trump's rivals are condemning the former president in...
(BBC News) Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said every Hamas member was "a dead man" after the first meeting of his country's emergency government.
Alongside him, opposition figure Benny Gantz said it was "a time for war".
But US President Joe Biden said he had spoken to Netanyahu and made it clear that Israel must "operate by the rules of war".
The death toll in Israel has reached 1,200. More than 1,100 people have been killed by...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) In Lebanon, people are no strangers to conflict.
“If there has to be a war, then there will be a war. Do you know how many wars we have been through since I have been alive? We are used to it,” 55-year-old Ahmed Ali told Al Jazeera at a transport hub in Lebanon’s capital, Beirut.
In just his lifetime, Lebanon has been through a devastating civil war, a conflict with Israel, internal battles...
(BBC News) U.K. special forces killed nine people "in their beds" during an Afghanistan night raid, an independent inquiry has heard.
Family members say the victims were unarmed civilians. The SAS had claimed they acted in self-defence.
Senior officers suspected troops of carrying out a policy of executing "fighting age" men even if they posed no threat.
The government announced the inquiry after BBC Panorama revealed an SAS squadron killed 54 people in suspicious circumstances on one six-month...
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Rescuers say they have found more than 250 bodies at the site of an Israeli music festival attacked by Hamas militants on Saturday
The Israeli military says at least 700 people died in the attacks overall, more than 2,000 were injured, and that a number of hostages are being held in Gaza
Retaliatory Israeli air strikes have killed at least 413 people in the Gaza Strip, with 2,300 wounded, according to the...
(BBC News) Hundreds of people are feared dead and at least 1,000 are injured after a powerful earthquake hit western Afghanistan, near the Iranian border.
The 6.3-magnitude quake struck about 40 km from the western city of Herat at around 11:00 local time (06:30 GMT).
Many buildings were damaged, trapping people under rubble, and there were at least three powerful aftershocks.
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(BBC News) Dozens of Israelis are believed to have been captured by Palestinian militants in an unprecedented assault into Israeli territory.
"We are at war," says Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu.
At least 70 people in Israel have been confirmed killed, with hundreds of others being treated in hospitals, according to emergency services.
Nearly 200 people have been killed in retaliatory Israeli strikes in the Gaza strip, officials there say.
Hamas commander Mohammed Deif says the Palestinian militant group...
(BBC News) At first glance, Starr County in Texas is a quiet place.
Its gently rolling hills are blanketed with low-growing mesquite and shrubs intersected by small gullies and streams, and many of its small, sleepy towns seem plucked from old westerns.
But the US border with Mexico is never far off. On peaceful days in towns like Roma, residents and visitors can clearly hear loud chatting, children playing, or roosters crowing across the Rio Grande.
For...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The next speaker of the United States House of Representatives will face a gruelling task: maintaining near unanimous support among a divided Republican caucus while reaching agreements with Democrats to fund the government.
Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy found out the hard way that the two jobs can be at odds with one another. When he struck a deal with Democrats to temporarily fund the government on Saturday, he sparked a Republican backlash that culminated...
