(Al Jazeera Media Network) Russia’s parliament has begun considering a bill that would give the state the power to seize the property of those convicted of defamation of the security forces.
“The State Duma has introduced amendments to the Criminal and Criminal Procedure Codes on the confiscation of property for public calls for activities directed against the security of the state, for discrediting the army and a number of other articles,” a statement by the State Duma,...
(BBC News) The US and UK have conducted a fresh series of joint air strikes against eight Houthi targets in Yemen, the Pentagon said.
The strikes targeted an underground storage site and Houthi missile and surveillance capability, it said.
The Iran-backed Houthis have been targeting ships they say are linked to Israel and the West that travel through the important Red Sea trade route.
The US and UK said they are trying to protect the "free flow...
(BBC News) Iran's president said an air strike on the Syrian capital that killed five senior members of Iran's security forces will not go unanswered.
Ebrahim Raisi said Israel was to blame for the attack, which also killed a number of Syrian forces.
Israel has not commented. For years, it has carried out strikes on Iranian-linked targets in Syria.
Such strikes have intensified since the Israel-Gaza war began following Hamas's October 7 attacks on Israel.
In a statement...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Pakistan and Iran have agreed to “de-escalate” tensions after an exchange of missile and drone attacks this week raised fears of further instability in the region, Islamabad said.
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani and the foreign minister of Iran, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, spoke via phone on Friday, Pakistan’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
“The two foreign ministers agreed that working level cooperation and close coordination on counter terrorism and other aspects...
(BBC News) A Japanese robot has successfully touched down on the Moon, but problems with its solar power system mean the mission may live for just a few hours.
The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (Slim) put itself gently on the lunar surface near an equatorial crater.
The feat made the Asian nation only the fifth country to soft-land on Earth's natural satellite, after the US, the Soviet Union, China, and India.
Engineers are now battling to...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The U.S. has been Israel’s top financial and diplomatic backer with military aid in the billions of dollars and frequent vetoes at the UN Security Council to shield the Israeli government from international accountability for its actions in the Palestinian territories.
That support will persist even as Netanyahu explicitly rebuffs U.S. calls for establishing a Palestinian state, U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller has suggested.
“Our support for Israel remains ironclad. But...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said the air attacks in Pakistan that killed two children this week targeted an “Iranian terrorist group”.
“On Pakistan, none of the nationals of the friendly and brotherly country of Pakistan were targeted by Iranian missiles and drones,” Abdollahian said on Wednesday.
“The so-called Jaish al-Adl group, which is an Iranian terrorist group, was targeted,” he added.
Amir-Abdollahian said the attack on “Pakistan’s soil” was in response to...
(BBC News) The US company that was hoping to land on the Moon will bring its mission home to destruction in the coming hours.
Astrobotic says its Peregrine spacecraft will be directed to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere and burn up.
The lander suffered a major propellant leak shortly after launching from Florida on its Vulcan rocket last week.
Although engineers were able to stabilize the situation, the loss of oxidiser meant a safe touch-down on the lunar surface could...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The race for the 2024 US presidential elections has kicked off with Monday’s Republican caucus in Iowa.
Former US President Donald Trump decisively won the caucus ballots and will head to next week’s New Hampshire primary with a commanding lead over his rivals. Trump also secured an endorsement from opponent Vivek Ramaswamy, who dropped his bid following a disappointing loss.
Primaries and caucuses are ways Republicans and Democrats choose their presidential candidate. The majority...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched ballistic missiles at what it claimed were Israeli “spy headquarters” in Iraq’s Kurdish region and hit targets allegedly linked to ISIL (ISIS) in northern Syria, saying it was defending its security and countering terrorism.
At least eight explosions were heard in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, early on Tuesday. Four people were killed and six were wounded, the regional security council...
