(Al Jazeera Media Network) More than 50 people were killed and many injured in bomb attacks in two Pakistan provinces, officials have said.
In the southwestern province of Balochistan, a powerful bomb exploded on Friday near a mosque in Mastung city, where people were gathering to celebrate the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad.
Video footage shared on social media showed a large number of people, including many children, standing near the mosque before the bomb blast ripped through the...
(BBC News) Las Vegas police have reportedly arrested a man in connection with the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur nearly three decades ago.
The hip-hop legend was shot four times in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996. The identity of his killer has been a mystery.
On Friday morning, Las Vegas police arrested a man over his death, according to sources speaking to AP news agency.
Shakur was 25 years old when he died on September 13, 1996,...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Nagorno-Karabakh authorities have ordered the dismantling of the region’s state institutions by the end of the year, saying that the separatist state will cease existing as of January 1, 2024.
The decision came in a decree signed by the region’s separatist President Samvel Shakhramanyan on Thursday as more than half of the 120,000 ethnic Armenians who used to live in the enclave fled into Armenia following a military operation by Azerbaijani...
(BBC News) India is open to looking into any "specific" information Canada provides on the killing of a Sikh separatist leader, the country's foreign minister said.
S Jaishankar was referring to the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada in June.
Tensions flared up after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently said it was investigating "credible allegations" linking the Indian state with the murder.
India dismissed the claim as "absurd".
Jaishankar said that the Indian government had told Canada...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) A United States soldier who was detained after crossing into North Korea two months ago is back in American custody, U.S. officials have said, after Pyongyang said Travis King would be deported.
In a statement on Wednesday confirming news reports, U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said officials had “secured the return” of the soldier.
“We appreciate the dedication of the interagency team that has worked tirelessly out of concern for Private King’s wellbeing,” Sullivan said.
“In...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) JPMorgan Chase has reached settlements with the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) and former executive Jes Staley to resolve lawsuits over sex trafficking by the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, largely resolving a scandal that has weighed on the largest U.S. bank for months.
The settlements conclude the final pieces of litigation in a saga involving women who said Epstein sexually abused them, and which embroiled some of the world’s most powerful figures...
(BBC News) Actors in the U.S. have voted in favour of a potential video games strike, raising the prospect of another walkout in Hollywood.
Members of the Sag-Aftra union voted 98% in favour of taking action over the gaming industry agreement that covers voice, motion capture, and stunt work.
Actors are already on strike from work for film and TV studios.
Earlier this week, writers reached a tentative deal to end their dispute with studio bosses after five months.
The...
(BBC News) An invitation to parliament for a Ukrainian man who fought for a Nazi unit in World War Two is "deeply embarrassing" to Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says.
Yaroslav Hunka, 98, got a standing ovation after House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota called him a "hero" during a Friday visit by Ukraine's president.
Rota has said he did not know of Hunka's Nazi ties and made a mistake in inviting him to attend the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) French President Emmanuel Macron says his country will withdraw its ambassador and troops from Niger in the wake of the July coup that overthrew democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum.
“France has decided to withdraw its ambassador. In the next hours, our ambassador and several diplomats will return to France,” Macron said in a televised interview on Sunday.
He added that military co-operation was “over,” and French troops would withdraw in “the months and weeks...
(BBC News) Dusty samples from the "most dangerous known rock in the Solar System" have been brought to Earth.
U.S. space agency NASA landed the materials in a capsule that came down in the West Desert of Utah state.
The samples had been scooped up from the surface of asteroid Bennu in 2020 by the Osiris-Rex spacecraft.
NASA wants to learn more about the mountainous object, not least because it has an outside chance of hitting our...
