(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...
(BBC News) A seven-year mission to study what has been described as the most dangerous rock in the Solar System is about to reach its dramatic conclusion.
The Osiris-Rex spacecraft is bringing home the "soil" samples it grabbed from the surface of asteroid Bennu.
These dusty materials will be dropped off by the NASA probe as it sweeps past the Earth on Sunday.
They will be tucked inside a capsule to protect them from a fiery descent...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has called the West an “empire of lies” and accused it of adopting a neo-colonial mindset in its overtures to the Global South to win backing for Ukraine in the war.
Speaking after a week of intense global diplomacy at the annual gathering of world leaders at UN headquarters in New York, where Ukraine and its western allies sought to drum up support for Kyiv as...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The administration of President Joe Biden has extended temporary legal status to an estimated 472,000 Venezuelans living in the United States, citing “extraordinary” circumstances.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced the decision late on Wednesday, saying that “the conditions in their home country prevent their safe return.”
But response over the following day has been divided, as Democrats and Republicans grapple with how best to address the influx of arrivals.
Venezuela has faced a years-long humanitarian...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, Aykhan Hajizada, said his country has “agreed to hold a dialogue” with ethnic Armenians following the ceasefire agreement.
“We believe that after the disarmament and withdrawal of the Armenian armed forces, peace will finally come to the region,” Hajizada told Al Jazeera.
When asked about reports of civilian casualties, Hajizada said Azerbaijan “carried counter-terrorism measures against illegal military formations only.”
“In every military operation,...
(BBC News) India has urged its citizens travelling to or living in Canada to "exercise utmost caution."
The advisory comes a day after tensions escalated between the countries with each expelling a diplomat from the other side.
Canada said it was investigating "credible allegations" linking the Indian state with the killing of a Sikh separatist leader.
India strongly denied this, calling the allegations "absurd".
Analysts say relations between the countries, which have been strained for months, are at an all-time low.
On...
(BBC News) Canada's PM Justin Trudeau says he is not trying to provoke India by linking it to the murder of a Sikh separatist leader.
The escalating row centres on the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Canadian citizen shot dead outside a Sikh temple on June 18 in British Columbia.
Trudeau says Canadian intelligence officials are pursuing "credible allegations" of a link between his death and the Indian state.
India expelled a senior Canadian diplomat after...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Azerbaijan says it has launched “anti-terrorist operations” in the Nagorno-Karabakh region and demanded the “complete withdrawal” of ethnic Armenian forces as a condition for peace in the disputed territory.
Armenia’s foreign ministry urged Russian peacekeeping troops there to intervene and stop Azerbaijan’s “full-scale aggression” against the local population.
Azerbaijan said it opened humanitarian routes for non-combatants.
The offensive comes nearly three years after Baku fought a brief but deadly war with Armenian forces over...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The European Union has presented a plan for Italy to help it handle arrivals of migrants and refugees after a record number of people landed on its island of Lampedusa over the past week.
The surge in asylum seekers arriving on the Italian island has rekindled a fierce debate in Europe on how to share responsibility for the tens of thousands reaching the continent each year.
“Irregular migration is a European challenge,...
