(Al Jazeera Media Network) "China will fight to the bitter end of any trade war," the foreign ministry spokesperson in Beijing declared, after China announced tit-for-tat tariffs on agricultural imports from the US.
This came within minutes of a new 10% US levy on Chinese imports that came into effect on Tuesday —which adds to existing tariffs both from Trump's first term and those announced last month.
But China's latest retaliatory measures are an opening swing,...
(BBC News) US President Donald Trump's administration is pausing its offensive cyber operations against Russia, officials say, as a diplomatic push continues to end the war in Ukraine.
The reasoning for the instruction has not been publicly stated, and it is not clear how long the halt might last. The defence department has declined to comment.
The directive reportedly came before Trump ended up in a televised row with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Israel has halted the entry of all humanitarian aid into Gaza and threatened Hamas with more “consequences” if the Palestinian group does not agree to extend the now-ended phase one of their fragile ceasefire agreement.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Sunday that “the entry of all goods and supplies to the Gaza Strip will be halted,” accusing Hamas of refusing to accept a framework for the continuation of...
(BBC News) Where next? The first six-week phase of the Gaza ceasefire ends on Saturday.
The 42 days since 19 January have seen their fair share of uncertainty, hope, grief and anger, but everything that should have happened in that time has.
Israeli hostages — the living and the dead — have been released. Palestinian prisoners set free.
But negotiations on phase two, including the release of all remaining living hostages and the withdrawal of Israeli troops...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) A suicide bombing at a mosque in northwestern Pakistan has killed at least six people, including a prominent religious scholar, and injured at least 20, according to authorities.
The mosque is located inside the Darul Uloom Haqqania seminary in Akora Khattak, a town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Police said the attack occurred just after Friday prayers had concluded and appeared to target Hamid-ul-Haq, the leader of the religious political party Jamiat...
(BBC News) Volodymyr Zelensky has clashed with Donald Trump and JD Vance in an extraordinary exchange in the Oval Office.
Zelensky was then told to leave the White House and a planned news conference was abruptly cancelled.
During the clash, the US president told his Ukrainian counterpart to be "thankful" and accused him of “gambling with World War III.”
Zelensky said there should be “no compromises” with Vladimir Putin — but Trump said Kyiv will...
(BBC News) North Korea has sent more soldiers to Russia and re-deployed others to the frontline in the western Kursk region, according to South Korea's intelligence agency.
It said the exact number of extra troops sent was unknown, but military officials quoted in South Korean media have said they believed it was at least 1,000.
Neither Moscow nor Pyongyang have confirmed the new deployment.
North Korea is thought to have suffered heavy losses in the four months since...
(BBC News) A company that fell victim to what is thought to be the world's biggest-ever theft is seeking to recover some of its losses by crowdsourcing online bounty hunters.
Last week, hackers believed to be from North Korea's notorious Lazarus Group stole $1.46 billion of cryptocurrency from ByBit, a crypto trading platform.
The criminals are trying to rapidly cash out through a complex online money-laundering process.
ByBit is now offering cash rewards to anyone who spots...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The Israeli military has conducted air raids targeting what it described as military bases and command centres in southern Syria and outside the capital, Damascus.
Israeli warplanes hit the town of Kisweh, approximately 20 km south of Damascus, as well as the southern province of Deraa late on Tuesday, residents, security sources and local broadcaster Syria TV said.
The Israeli army said it struck “military targets in southern Syria, including command centres...
(BBC News) A senior Ukrainian official says the US and Ukraine have agreed the terms of a minerals deal.
It contains "a number of good amendments," the official tells the BBC, though details about what's included in the revised draft remain unclear.
US President Donald Trump suggests his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky will travel to Washington DC on Friday to sign the agreement.
Asked what Ukraine gets in exchange, Trump says: "The right to fight on."
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