(Al Jazeera Media Network) New Zealand’s conservative government has introduced a new bill to dismantle an agency set up to improve health outcomes for the Pacific nation’s Maori people.
Health Minister Shane Reti said on Tuesday the Maori Health Authority will be shut down by the end of June and that its functions will be absorbed by the national health system.
The legislation heralds the “start of a new vision for Maori health,” he said.
Known as...
(BBC News) Several NATO countries, including the U.S., Germany and the UK, have ruled out deploying ground troops to Ukraine, after French President Emmanuel Macron said "nothing should be excluded."
Macron said there was "no consensus" on sending western soldiers to Ukraine.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has warned of direct conflict if NATO troops deploy there.
Russian forces have recently made gains in Ukraine, and Kyiv has urgently appealed for more weapons.
Macron told a news conference on...
(BBC News) A U.S. airman has died after setting himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC.
The man was identified by police as Aaron Bushnell, 25, of San Antonio, Texas.
Officers from the US Secret Service extinguished the flames before the man was taken to hospital on Sunday afternoon.
Before setting himself on fire, he said he would "no longer be complicit in genocide."
In a video aired live on streaming site Twitch,...
(BBC News) Donald Trump is one step closer to the Republican presidential nomination after a massive win over Nikki Haley in South Carolina.
The former president won his primary opponent's home state by a 20-point margin, his fourth consecutive victory.
As he celebrated, Trump made no mention of Haley, who vowed to stay in the race. Instead, he set his sights on the general election in November.
That will be a likely rematch with his successor in...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) With the gaze of much of the world fixed on the carnage unfolding in Gaza, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin continues to expand his country’s reach in Africa.
Russia, in the form of the private military contractor (PMC) Wagner, has been a growing presence in Libya since at least 2018, when the group was first reported to be training troops under renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar, leader of the Libyan National Army,...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The Odysseus lunar lander has made the first United States landing on the moon in more than 50 years, in what has been described as similar to a “cargo mission”.
The moment marks the first successful landing of a commercial spacecraft on the moon, following an unsuccessful US lunar lander mission last month.
The last craft launched from the U.S. to land on the Moon’s surface was Apollo 17 in 1972.
Odysseus, also known as “Odie”, is...
(BBC News) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has laid out his vision for a post-war Gaza.
Under his plan, Israel would control security indefinitely, and Palestinians with no links to groups hostile to Israel would run the territory.
The U.S., Israel's major ally, has indicated that it wants the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority (PA) to govern Gaza after the war.
But the short document – which Netanyahu presented to ministers Thursday night – makes no mention of...
(BBC News) Alexei Navalny's mother has said she has been shown his body, but that the Russian authorities are pressuring her to allow a "secret" burial.
In a video address, Lyudmila Navalnaya said she had been brought to a morgue where she signed a death certificate.
Navalny's press secretary said a medical report presented to Navalnaya stated he died of natural causes.
Navalny's widow has said he was killed by Russian authorities.
Lyudmila Navalnaya said the law required officials...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Hearings started at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Monday in a landmark case in which 52 countries are jointly presenting evidence about the legal consequences of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories.
The case stems from a request from the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on December 30, 2022. A majority of UNGA members voted to seek the court’s opinion on the legal consequences of the continuing Israeli occupation of...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iran has accused Israel of being behind two attacks last week on gas pipelines that disrupted supplies in several provinces, further raising tensions between the regional archenemies amid the war on Gaza.
“The explosion of the country’s gas lines was the work of Israel,” Oil Minister Javad Owji said on Wednesday after a cabinet meeting.
“The plot was foiled,” he said.
Two explosions hit Iran’s leading south-north gas pipeline network on February 14. They were...
