(BBC News) The unexpectedly meaty win for controversial, hard-right politician Geert Wilders in Wednesday's general election in the Netherlands set international headlines on fire.
Right-wing nationalists across Europe rushed to congratulate the populist politician, sometimes dubbed the Dutch Trump – partly for his dyed, bouffant-like hairdo, and partly for his famously firebrand rhetoric.
Wilders' publicly expressed views – including linking Muslim immigration with terrorism and calling for a ban on mosques and the Quran – are...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Authorities in the United States have thwarted a plot to kill a Sikh separatist in the country and issued a warning to India over concerns the government in New Delhi was involved, the Financial Times has reported.
Citing unnamed sources, the FT on Wednesday identified Gurpatwant Singh Pannun as the target of the allegedly foiled plot.
The report said Pannun had declined to say whether U.S. authorities had warned him about the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Israel’s prime minister managed to secure a truce with Hamas with the backing of the far-right coalition partners he needs to stay in power, but several cabinet members expressed their displeasure at giving the Palestinian group too many concessions.
The agreement between Israel and Hamas reached early on Wednesday, with mediation from Qatar, includes a multi-day truce and the release of 50 hostages being held in Gaza in exchange for 150 Palestinians jailed...
(BBC News) A vehicle has exploded at a bridge between the U.S. and Canada, with FBI describing the situation as "very fluid."
Two people inside the vehicle died in the explosion. Witnesses have described seeing a car approaching the bridge at high speed, followed by a large explosion.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer was injured in the blast and has been transported to hospital, says the BBC.
Rainbow Bridge is in Niagara...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Leaders of major emerging economies called for an end to Israel’s war on Gaza on Tuesday, and for a cessation of hostilities on both sides to ease the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
In a virtual summit chaired by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, the BRICS grouping denounced attacks on civilians in Palestine and Israel, with many leaders calling the forced displacement of Palestinians, within Gaza or outside...
(BBC News) Microsoft has offered to match the pay of any staff who join it from crisis-ridden OpenAI.
Sam Altman was controversially sacked as CEO on Friday, leading to a job offer at Microsoft to lead "a new advanced AI research team."
Almost every staff member at OpenAI has threatened to leave unless Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman are reinstated.
It is still unclear whether Altman will ultimately join Microsoft, which is OpenAI's biggest investor by far.
Evan Morikawa, an...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) A court in Italy has convicted more than 230 defendants at the end of one of the country’s largest-ever mafia trials, which targeted the ‘Ndrangheta crime group in its heartland in the southern region of Calabria.
More than 330 suspected mobsters and their alleged associates, including white-collar professionals, had been facing an array of charges, such as extortion, drug trafficking, and theft in a trial that lasted almost three years.
It took judges just...
(BBC News) Picture a boardroom battle at a multi-billion-dollar company whose futuristic tech might either save or destroy the world.
Its chief executive, who has the ear of world leaders, toppled as senior colleagues turn on him – only for much of the rest of the company to demand that they themselves should be fired.
No, that is not my pitch for a Netflix drama; it's the past few days at OpenAI.
Tech journalists, enthusiasts and investors have been binge-watching...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Hamas fighters who attacked a music festival in Israel on October 7, killing hundreds, likely did not know in advance about the event and decided to target it on the spot, Israeli media has reported, citing police and security sources.
According to a copy of the first Israeli police report into the attack, obtained this week by Israel’s Channel 12, Palestinian fighters had originally intended to attack nearby kibbutz Re’im as well as other...
(BBC News) Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels say they have seized an Israeli cargo ship in the Red Sea.
They said the vessel was then taken to a port in Yemen.
Israel said the ship was not Israeli, and no Israelis were among its crew. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said this was "another act of Iranian terrorism."
Iran has not commented. Houthis had threatened to hijack Israeli ships within their reach over Israel's war with Hamas in the...
