(BBC News) A judge has blocked former President Donald Trump's attempt to obtain records related to the congressional investigation into January 6.
Judge Tanya Chutkan denied a motion from his team to issue subpoenas to members of the committee that looked into the Capitol attack in 2021.
In an opinion filed on Monday, she cast the motion as a "fishing expedition."
This is the latest courtroom defeat for Trump in the case alleging he plotted to overturn...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Finland will close its entire border with Russia to travellers for the next two weeks in a bid to halt the unusually large flow of asylum seekers to the Nordic nation, which the government and its allies say is an orchestrated move by Moscow.
Finland last week shut all but one of its border posts to travellers from Russia, keeping open only the northernmost Raja-Jooseppi crossing located in the Arctic. But this crossing...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) All 41 construction workers who were trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel for 17 days in northern India have been brought to safety, hours after rescue crews drilled through the debris of rock, concrete and mud to reach them.
Following days of multiple rescue attempts that hit obstacles just metres from reaching the men, they were eventually pulled out on Tuesday on wheeled stretchers through a 90-centimetre (three-foot) wide steel pipe,...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) At least 20 people have been killed, including 13 soldiers, and several wounded in a series of attacks over the weekend that targeted military barracks and prisons in Sierra Leone, according to the army.
Speaking to reporters on Monday, an army spokesperson said attacks across the capital, Freetown, on Sunday were carried out by “renegade soldiers” but had been repelled.
“We have launched a manhunt for all those who were involved in the...
(BBC News) New Zealand's new government says it plans to scrap the nation's world-leading smoking ban to fund tax cuts.
The legislation, introduced under the previous Jacinda Ardern-led government, would have banned cigarette sales next year to anyone born after 2008.
Smoking is the leading cause of preventable deaths in New Zealand, and the policy was intended to stop young generations from picking up the habit.
Health experts have strongly criticized the sudden reversal.
"We are appalled and...
(BBC News) Minneapolis ex-police officer Derek Chauvin, convicted in the murder of George Floyd, has been stabbed at an Arizona prison, U.S. media reports say.
A source told AP the 47-year-old was seriously injured by another inmate.
The New York Times, citing two people with knowledge of the situation, also reported that he was attacked.
Chauvin, who is white, is serving multiple sentences for the black man's death, which triggered huge protests against police brutality and racism.
The...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Israeli prison authorities say a second batch of 39 Palestinians have been released after 13 Israeli hostages and four foreigners were released by Hamas from the Gaza Strip.
The transfer on the second day of the scheduled four-day truce was delayed for hours over Hamas allegations that Israel was violating truce deal.
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(Al Jazeera Media Network) After seven weeks of war, the four-day truce between Israel and Hamas began on Friday morning. Under this truce, 39 Palestinian women and children were released on Friday.
Here is what’s known about those released and those who might be released in the coming days.
Of the 39 Palestinians released by Israel, 17 are minors.
They are:
Yousef Mohammad Mustafa Ata from Ramallah
Qusai Hani Ali Ahmad from Bethlehem
Jibreel Ghassan Ismail Jibreel from Qalqilya
Mohammad Ahmad...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Palestinian armed group Hamas has released 24 hostages held captive in Gaza for almost seven weeks, and Israel has released 39 Palestinian prisoners, hours after an Israel-Hamas truce mediated by Qatar came into effect.
Among the captives released were 13 Israelis, 10 Thai nationals, and one Filipino citizen, Majed al-Ansari, a spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry in Qatar, said on Friday.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Israel and the...
(BBC News) OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman will return as boss just days after he was fired by the board, the firm has said.
The agreement "in principle" involves new board members being appointed, the tech company added.
Altman's sacking on Friday astonished industry watchers and led to staff threatening mass resignations unless he was reinstated.
"I am looking forward to returning to OpenAI," Altman said in a post on X.
He added: "I love OpenAI, and everything I've...
