(BBC News) Japan has begun its controversial discharge of treated waste water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean, sparking protests in the region and retaliation from Beijing.
China is the biggest buyer of seafood from Japan, and on Thursday it said it would block all such imports.
Japan says the water is safe, and many scientists agree. The UN's nuclear watchdog has approved the plan.
But critics say more studies need to be done...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Pavel Felgenhauer, a defence and military analyst, tells Al Jazeera that if Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death is confirmed, that means the mercenary company is “decapitated.”
“Prigozhin was their political leader and financial backer, but also their main military commander. (Right-hand man Dimitry) Utkin was also on that plane,” he said.
He added that if the deaths are confirmed, then “that means they have lost their financial leader, their political leader, and their military...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Sudanese military factions battled for a third day over an army base in the capital, witnesses have said, as both sides struggle for advantage in a war that has raged for more than four months.
After the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) circulated video of its soldiers claiming to have entered the base and captured tanks, army sources on Tuesday said they had managed to drive them out.
If the army were...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Anti-corruption crusader Bernardo Arevalo has scored a landslide victory in Guatemala’s presidential election, after voters angry at successive leaders’ failure to tackle widespread corruption made a decisive choice for change.
With 98 percent of ballots counted, Arevalo had 58 percent of votes, with his rival Sandra Torres trailing on 36 percent, according to a count by the TSE national election body.
Blanca Alfaro, the judge who heads the TSE, said Arevalo of...
(BBC News) Russia's unmanned Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon after spinning out of control, officials say.
It was Russia's first Moon mission in almost 50 years.
The craft was due to be the first ever to land on the Moon's south pole, but failed after encountering problems as it moved into its pre-landing orbit.
It was set to explore a part of the Moon that scientists think could hold frozen water and precious elements.
Roscosmos, Russia's...
(BBC News) More than 40 Chinese warplanes flew over Taiwan's air defence zone on Saturday, as part of military drills that Taiwan called "irrational and provocative".
About 26 Chinese aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait, Taiwan's ministry of defence said.
It said Beijing was trying to influence Taiwan's upcoming election.
China said the drills would test its forces' ability to fight in "combat conditions", state media reported.
The People's Liberation Army "launched joint air and...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) West Africa’s main bloc has agreed on a “D-day” for possible military intervention to restore democracy in Niger after generals toppled and detained President Mohamed Bazoum last month.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) agreed on Friday to activate a standby force as a last resort if diplomatic efforts fail, a senior official said without disclosing when that is.
“We are ready to go any time the order is given,” ECOWAS...
(BBC News) Hospital bosses failed to investigate allegations against Lucy Letby and tried to silence doctors, the lead consultant at the neonatal unit where she worked has told the BBC.
The hospital also delayed calling the police despite months of warnings that the nurse may have been killing babies.
The unit's lead consultant Dr. Stephen Brearey first raised concerns about Letby in October 2015.
No action was taken and she went on to attack five more babies,...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Canadians have crammed into a local airport and lined up along a major highway out of the Northwest Territories to escape wildfires, a day after authorities warned the blazes were moving closer to the territory’s capital and largest city, Yellowknife.
The Canadian government said Prime Justin Trudeau Minister will convene an emergency committee, known as the Incident Response Group, on Thursday to discuss the wildfires – the latest in a series of...
(BBC News) North Korea has said U.S. soldier Travis King crossed into its territory last month because of "inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination" in the army.
The 23-year-old private dashed across the border from South Korea on July 18 while on a guided tour.
Private 2nd Class (PV2) King "expressed his willingness to seek refuge" in the North, the country's state media said.
The claims, which are the North's first public comments on the case, could not be verified...
