(BBC News) Hundreds of people are feared dead and at least 1,000 are injured after a powerful earthquake hit western Afghanistan, near the Iranian border.
The 6.3-magnitude quake struck about 40 km from the western city of Herat at around 11:00 local time (06:30 GMT).
Many buildings were damaged, trapping people under rubble, and there were at least three powerful aftershocks.
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(BBC News) Dozens of Israelis are believed to have been captured by Palestinian militants in an unprecedented assault into Israeli territory.
"We are at war," says Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu.
At least 70 people in Israel have been confirmed killed, with hundreds of others being treated in hospitals, according to emergency services.
Nearly 200 people have been killed in retaliatory Israeli strikes in the Gaza strip, officials there say.
Hamas commander Mohammed Deif says the Palestinian militant group...
(BBC News) At first glance, Starr County in Texas is a quiet place.
Its gently rolling hills are blanketed with low-growing mesquite and shrubs intersected by small gullies and streams, and many of its small, sleepy towns seem plucked from old westerns.
But the US border with Mexico is never far off. On peaceful days in towns like Roma, residents and visitors can clearly hear loud chatting, children playing, or roosters crowing across the Rio Grande.
For...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The next speaker of the United States House of Representatives will face a gruelling task: maintaining near unanimous support among a divided Republican caucus while reaching agreements with Democrats to fund the government.
Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy found out the hard way that the two jobs can be at odds with one another. When he struck a deal with Democrats to temporarily fund the government on Saturday, he sparked a Republican backlash that culminated...
(BBC News) Ex-president Donald Trump has asked a federal court to dismiss the election interference case against him, arguing his role entitled him to "absolute immunity".
Trump's lawyers say his attempts to cast doubt on the 2020 election fell within his duties as president and are not subject to criminal prosecution.
The claims were "at the heart of his official responsibilities," they argue.
Separately, Trump has asked for a delay in his classified documents case.
Trump's attorneys have...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The United States has sent Ukraine more than one million rounds of seized Iranian ammunition, according to the U.S. military.
The U.S. Central Command on Wednesday said the ammunition was confiscated last year from a vessel it accused of shipping weapons from Iran to the Houthi rebel group in Yemen.
“The U.S. government transferred approximately 1.1 million 7.62mm rounds to the Ukrainian armed forces” on Monday, the military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a...
(BBC News) Nancy Pelosi and her long-time deputy Steny Hoyer have been ordered to leave their workspaces in the US Capitol by acting House Speaker Patrick McHenry.
Both were told locks on their office doors will be "re-keyed" on Wednesday.
The evictions come after Kevin McCarthy was ousted from the chamber's plum post on Tuesday and McHenry, a top loyalist, was appointed in the interim.
Pelosi, who is not currently in Washington, criticized the decision as "a...
(BBC News) Kevin McCarthy has been toppled in a right-wing revolt — the first time that a US House of Representatives Speaker has lost a no-confidence vote.
The final tally was 216-210 to remove the congressman as leader of the Republican majority in the lower chamber of Congress.
Hardliners in his party voted against him after he struck a deal with Senate Democrats to fund government agencies.
There is no clear successor to oversee the House Republican...
(BBC News) President Joe Biden has vowed continued U.S. support for Ukraine, after further military funding was excluded from a last-minute congressional budget deal.
The temporary measure, pushed through to avert a government shutdown, did not include $6 billion in military aid for Kyiv — a top White House priority.
Hardline Republicans oppose further military aid, with many openly opposing Biden's approach to the war.
But on Sunday, Biden said Ukraine could "count on" U.S. support.
"We cannot,...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The United States has urged Belgrade to pull its forces back from the border with Kosovo after detecting what it called an “unprecedented” Serbian military build-up.
Serbia has deployed sophisticated tanks and artillery near the frontier with Kosovo after deadly clashes erupted at a monastery in northern Kosovo last weekend, the White House warned on Friday.
The violence – in which a Kosovar police officer and three Serb gunmen were killed – marked one...
