(Al Jazeera Media Network) Russian President Vladimir Putin has pledged a “significant” response to “Europe’s militarization” and says the hysteria around his country potentially attacking NATO is “nonsense”.
“They can’t believe what they’re saying, that Russia is going to attack NATO,” he said on Thursday at a foreign policy forum in the southern resort city of Sochi. “They’re either incredibly incompetent if they truly believe it because it’s impossible to believe this nonsense, or they’re...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) President Donald Trump has issued an executive order in which the United States pledges to guarantee Qatar’s security – including retaliatory military action – if the country were to come under attack again, in the wake of Israel’s unprecedented air strikes on the country last month that drew regional and global outrage.
Israel said that the attack targeted Hamas leaders who were in the capital, Doha, discussing a US ceasefire proposal...
(BBC News) A sunscreen scandal in Australia is continuing to grow, with 18 products now pulled from shelves in the skin-cancer hotspot over safety concerns.
Analysis by a consumer advocacy group in June found several popular and expensive sunscreens did not provide the protection claimed by their makers.
One product, Ultra Violette's Lean Screen Skinscreen, claims to offer a skin protection factor (SPF) of 50+ but instead returned a result of SPF 4 and was voluntarily...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Hamas has issued what it calls a “warning” that the lives of two captives held in Gaza City are in danger as Israeli tanks push deeper inside several neighbourhoods of the besieged urban centre, where tens of thousands of Palestinians are trapped by Israel’s ground invasion and bombardment.
The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian group, said on Sunday that contact has been lost with fighters holding Omri Miran and...
(BBC News) A Russian aerial bombardment that lasted more than 12 hours has killed at least four people and injured at least 70 others in Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said the deaths all occurred in the capital, Kyiv, where many of the projectiles were aimed, and the victims included a 12-year-old girl.
The barrage – involving nearly 600 drones and several dozen missiles aimed at seven regions of Ukraine – is one of the heaviest in...
(BBC News) President Donald Trump has ordered the deployment of US troops to Portland, Oregon, authorizing use of "full force" if needed, to suppress protests targeting immigration detention centres.
Trump said he was "directing Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to provide all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland."
He claimed that the move would help protect "any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists," adding on Truth Social: "I...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) European Union defence ministers have agreed to develop a “drone wall” along their borders with Russia and Ukraine to detect, track, and intercept violations of their airspace, according to the bloc’s defence chief.
Friday’s announcement comes after rogue drones entered Polish airspace on September 10, rattling eastern EU members.
“The repeated violations of our airspace are unacceptable. The message is clear: Russia is testing the EU and NATO. And our response must...
(BBC News) Former FBI Director James Comey has maintained he is innocent after being charged with making false statements to Congress.
President Donald Trump welcomed the indictment against a high-profile figure who has long drawn his ire. Comey is accused of lying to a Senate committee in 2020 about whether he authorized a leak of classified information to the media.
The indictment in Virginia comes days after Trump called on the country's top law enforcement official...
(BBC News) Denmark's Aalborg airport in the country's north has been closed after unauthorized drones were seen in its airspace, according to local authorities.
Three other smaller airports in the country's southern region – Esbjerg, Sønderborg and Skrydstrup – also reported drone activity, but were not closed.
The incident comes after the country's Copenhagen airport was forced to close earlier this week due to a drone incursion, which the prime minister described as "the most severe...
(BBC News) NASA has said it hopes to send astronauts on a 10-day trip around the Moon as soon as February.
The US space agency had previously committed to launching no later than the end of April but said it aims to bring the mission forward.
It has been 50 years since any country has flown a crewed lunar mission. NASA will send four astronauts there and back to test systems.
The Artemis II mission is the...
