(BBC News) Iowa's influential evangelical voters were once decidedly lukewarm on Donald Trump. But if recent polls are accurate, born-again Christians will carry him to victory on Monday in the Republican caucuses. What has changed?
The video is bombastic, even by Trump's standards. Just consider the title: God Made Trump.
"God looked down on his planned paradise and said, 'I need a caretaker,'" a voiceover intones over a minimalist piano track. "So God gave us Trump."
The...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Representatives of governments and international organisations, billionaires, entrepreneurs, experts, academics, NGOs and press corps are once again descending on the Graubunden winter sports resort in Davos, Switzerland.
Under the motto “Rebuilding Trust”, the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) will start on January 15, aiming to discuss “the basic principles of trust” – transparency, coherence and responsibility.
But the ongoing fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic as well as from...
(BBC News) President Joe Biden says the US has delivered a "private message" to Iran about the Houthis in Yemen after the US carried out a second strike on the group.
"We delivered it privately and we're confident we're well-prepared," he said without giving further details.
The US said its latest strike was a "follow-on action" targeting radar.
Iran denies involvement in attacks by the Houthis in the Red Sea.
However, Tehran is suspected of supplying the Houthis...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) William Lai Ching-te from the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has won Taiwan’s presidential election, despite warnings from China – which claims Taiwan as part of its territory – not to vote for him.
The DPP does not represent the mainstream public opinion on the island, Beijing said after Lai was named the winner of Saturday’s vote, adding that the vote “will not impede the inevitable trend of China’s reunification.”
Lai, the current...
(BBC News) Progressive Democrats have harshly criticized the US decision to launch retaliatory strikes against the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.
They argued, with support from some Republicans, that President Joe Biden violated the US Constitution by not seeking congressional approval first.
But several Republicans offered rare praise of the administration, calling it an "overdue" act of deterrence.
The president on Thursday called the precision strikes a "defensive action".
In a joint statement with coalition partners – the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Israel has rejected the accusations brought by South Africa to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that its actions in Gaza amount to genocide, in a second day of a public hearing at the world body in The Hague.
Israel’s legal representatives on Friday claimed South Africa’s case was “unfounded”, “absurd”, amounting to “libel”, and said Israel sought not to destroy a people but to protect its people.
On Thursday, the first day of hearings,...
(BBC News) US and UK forces have carried out air strikes against Houthi rebel targets in Yemen.
President Joe Biden said the strikes are in response to attacks by the Iran-backed Houthis on ships in the Red Sea since November.
The Houthi deputy foreign minister warned that the US and UK will "pay a heavy price" for this "blatant aggression."
Royal Air Force warplanes helped carry out the "targeted strikes" against military facilities, said UK Prime Minister Rishi...
(BBC News) Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa has challenged armed gangs to take on the military rather than civilians as soldiers were deployed to combat the criminal groups.
Noboa declared a state of emergency on Monday after a wave of gang violence swept through the Andean country.
In the most dramatic incident, armed men stormed a TV station and threatened the staff during a live broadcast.
More than 300 suspects have been arrested under the state of emergency.
Noboa...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Israel faces accusations that it is subjecting Palestinians in Gaza to genocidal acts, as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) commenced a hearing on South Africa’s genocide case against it on Thursday.
Amid the ongoing three-month war in Gaza, more than 23,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed, lawyers told the top United Nations court. Most of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million has been displaced, and an Israeli blockade severely limiting food,...
(BBC News) A group of armed men have broken into a live television studio in Ecuador and threatened staff, footage shows.
A live broadcast by station TC in the city of Guayaquil was interrupted on Tuesday by the group, who were wearing hoods and carrying guns.
Staff were forced to on to the floor, before the live feed cut out.
A 60-day state of emergency began in Ecuador on Monday after a convicted gang leader vanished from...
