(BBC News) A spacecraft that will hunt for signs of life on one of Jupiter’s icy moons has blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
NASA launched the spacecraft at 12:06 local time (16:06 GMT) after hurricane Milton forced the mission to postpone plans last week.
Europa Clipper will now travel 2.9 billion kilometres to reach Europa, a deeply mysterious moon orbiting Jupiter.
It will not arrive until 2030, but what it finds could change what we know about...
(BBC News) A man armed with guns and a high-capacity magazine was arrested outside Donald Trump's rally in California on Saturday, police say.
Vem Miller, 49, was arrested near a checkpoint to the Coachella rally site. He was stopped and found to be in possession of multiple passports and driving licences in different names, and a fake licence plate.
The incident "did not affect the safety of former President Trump or attendees of the event," police...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) At least 67 people have been wounded in a drone attack in northern Israel, according to Israeli emergency services and local media, as the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah said it had targeted an Israeli military camp with a “swarm” of drones.
Israeli Army Radio reported that at least four people were critically wounded in the attack on Sunday in the town of Binyamina, south of Haifa.
According to Israel’s Channel 12, no warning sirens...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Two TD Bank units have pleaded guilty to United States criminal charges and agreed to pay $3 billion in combined penalties to resolve federal government probes into money laundering, US authorities have said, making it the largest bank in US history guilty for such violations.
The plea deal includes imposition of an asset cap and other limitations to its business, authorities said on Thursday. It comes after multiple government investigations into...
(BBC News) Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant says Israel's response to attacks by Iran will be “deadly, precise, and surprising”.
Speaking during a visit to an IDF intelligence unit, he calls the Iranian missile attack last week — which saw almost 200 ballistic missiles fired towards Israel — "aggressive but imprecise".
It comes as US President Joe Biden and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have spoken for the first time in weeks. The White House says Vice-President Kamala Harris...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Russian forces have reached the outskirts of the long-contested strategic town of Toretsk in eastern Ukraine.
The Ukrainian military confirmed that fighting was taking place in the town late on Monday. Torestsk is the latest key location that Russian troops have reached in recent weeks as they advance Moscow’s bid to take control of the Donetsk region.
“The situation is unstable, fighting is taking place literally at every entrance (to the city),”...
(BBC News) Russia's intelligence agency has been on a mission to generate "sustained mayhem on British and European streets," the head of MI5 has said.
Giving his annual update on security threats faced by the UK, Ken McCallum said GRU agents had carried out "arson, sabotage, and more dangerous actions conducted with increasing recklessness" in Britain after the UK backed Ukraine in its war with Russia.
MI5 had also responded to 20 plots backed by Iran since...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Israel has expanded attacks on southern Lebanon and pounded the capital Beirut’s southern suburbs as the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah has claimed a series of missile attacks on northern Israel, including near the city of Haifa.
The Israeli military said it carried out 120 strikes on Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon “within an hour” on Monday. An earlier attack on a municipal building near Bint Jbeil killed at least 10 Lebanese...
(BBC News) The mayor of a Mexican city plagued by drug violence has been murdered less than a week after taking office.
Alejandro Arcos was found dead on Sunday in Chilpancingo, a city of around 280,000 people in the southwestern state of Guerrero. He had been mayor for six days.
Evelyn Salgado, the state governor, said the city was in mourning over a murder that "fills us with indignation". His death came three days after the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) After a dispute running for more than 50 years, the United Kingdom will finally hand back the Chagos Islands, an archipelago located in the Indian Ocean, to the southeast African island country of Mauritius.
As part of an agreement on Thursday, the governments of the UK and Mauritius jointly announced that full sovereignty of the Chagos, a remote group of more than 60 islands, would again belong to Mauritius in exchange for...
