(BBC News) Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott is giving $640 million to non-profit organizations, more than double her previously planned donations for the year.
Scott announced this week she would give the money to 361 small groups, out of the more than 6,000 organizations that applied for funding.
She had initially planned to make 250 awards of $1 million each this year.
She has given away $16.5 billion since her 2019 divorce from Amazon's Jeff Bezos.
She has a...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) At least 12 bodies have been removed by ambulance from the affluent neighbourhood of Petion-Ville on the outskirts of the Haitian capital as tensions simmer pending the announcement of a new government.
Gunmen looted homes in the mountainous communities of Laboule and Thomassin before sunrise on Monday, forcing residents to flee as some called radio stations pleading for police.
The neighbourhoods had remained largely peaceful despite a surge in gang attacks across...
(BBC News) Donald Trump cannot find a private company to guarantee the $464m (£365m) he has been ordered to pay in a New York civil fraud case.
The former president must either pay the full amount in cash or secure a bond in order to continue his appeal.
Trump's lawyers said on Monday that securing a bond of that size was a "practical impossibility".
For a fee, a bonding company would guarantee the full amount to the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) President Vladimir Putin is set to win a record post-Soviet landslide victory in Russia’s election, cementing his grip on power, despite a large number of opponents staging a noon protest at polling stations.
Shortly after the last polls closed on Sunday, early returns pointed to the conclusion everyone expected: that Putin would extend his nearly quarter-century rule for six more years.
According to Russia’s Central Election Commission, he had some 87 percent of...
(BBC News) The first maritime humanitarian aid shipment to Gaza has been unloaded onto the shore.
The US charity behind the mission, World Central Kitchen (WCK), is co-operating with the United Arab Emirates.
The shipment contained 200 tonnes of food for Gaza, which the UN says is on the brink of famine.
Aid agencies have accused Israel of impeding aid deliveries, a charge denied by Israeli officials.
They say Israel is allowing aid through two crossings in the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Ukraine of trying to disrupt his country’s presidential election by shelling Russian territory and using 2,500 soldiers to try to pierce Russia’s borders, promising to punish Kyiv for its actions.
Polls opened across 11 time zones in Russia on Friday to begin three days of voting with Putin almost certain to secure his fifth term since winning his first election in 2000 with dissent in...
(BBC News) The prosecutor in Donald Trump's election fraud case in Georgia can stay on the trial, if the lawyer she had an affair with quits, a judge has ruled.
Trump and his co-defendants had tried to get Fani Willis disqualified, saying her relationship with Nathan Wade — whom she hired — had compromised the integrity of the case.
Judge Scott McAfee disagreed, but said it did create an "appearance of impropriety."
He said either Willis or...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat wrapped up recently in Luang Prabang, the old capital of landlocked Laos, with an emphasis on the stalled five-point consensus agreed between the bloc and the Myanmar military shortly after it seized power in a 2021 coup.
An official from Myanmar attended the meeting for the first time since the military regime was shut out of the top summits for failing to take steps to end the crisis.
Democracy activists and...
(BBC News) US Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer has called for new elections in Israel, accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of prioritizing his "political survival" above the country.
Schumer, a Democrat and the highest-ranking Jewish official in the US, said Netanyahu had "lost his way."
He warned that huge civilian casualties in Gaza risked alienating allies and turning Israel into a global "pariah".
It is a sharp escalation in US criticism of Netanyahu's government. Officials in Washington, including...
(BBC New) The judge overseeing an election interference case against Donald Trump in Georgia has thrown out some criminal charges, but left most in place.
Judge Scott McAfee found six counts in the 41-count indictment against Trump and some of his co-defendants, including Rudy Giuliani, lacked detail.
But he said the charges can still be refiled at a later date.
Trump was among 19 people charged with a conspiracy to overturn the state's 2020 election results.
"The lack...
