(BBC News) Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro has accused the US of "fabricating a new war", after it ordered the world's largest warship to be sent to the Caribbean.
The USS Gerald R Ford can carry up to 90 aircraft, and its deployment marks a massive increase in US firepower in the region.
The US has conducted 10 air strikes on vessels in the area as part of what it says is a war on drug traffickers.
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(Al Jazeera Media Network) Left-wing independent candidate Catherine Connolly has won Ireland's presidential election, securing 63 percent of the vote to defeat her centre-right rival.
Connolly, 68, was officially declared the winner of Friday’s vote after all 43 constituencies finished counting ballots on Saturday evening.
“I will be a president who listens, who reflects and who speaks when it’s necessary,” Connelly said in a speech at Dublin Castle.
“Together we can shape a new republic that values...
(BBC News) US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday that the US had carried out another strike against a ship alleged to belong to drug traffickers.
The operation took place in the Caribbean Sea, against a group Hegseth identified as the Tren de Aragua criminal organisation.
Hegseth said "six male narco-terrorists" were on board and killed.
The US has carried out a series of strikes on ships in the region, in what President Donald Trump has described as an...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) An advertisement released in the United States by Canada’s biggest province featuring former US President Ronald Reagan has set off new tensions between Washington and Ottawa, which already had icy relations over President Donald Trump’s tariff policy.
In a post on Truth Social on Thursday night, Trump claimed that the advertisement – which shows Reagan, a fellow Republican, speaking negatively about tariffs as an economic policy – was “fake”. He cited...
(BBC News) US Vice-President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have criticized a move by Israel's parliament towards annexation of the occupied West Bank.
On Wednesday, far-right politicians in the Knesset took the symbolic step of giving preliminary approval to a bill applying Israeli law in the territory, which the Palestinians claim as part of a hoped-for independent state.
At the end of a trip to Israel, Vance branded it a "very stupid political...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) More than 30 people have been charged on Thursday, including Chauncey Billups, an NBA Hall of Fame player and head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, and Terry Rozier, a guard with the Miami Heat, in connection with two separate but related federal gambling investigations that involved the league and the mafia.
The schemes – one of them focused on insider sports betting and another that rigged poker games nationwide – spanned...
(BBC News) The world chess federation (FIDE) has said it is examining public attacks former world champion Vladimir Kramnik made against Daniel Naroditsky before the US grandmaster's death.
FIDE CEO Emil Sutovsky told the Reuters news agency it was "looking into" the Russian's comments accusing Naroditsky, who died this week at age 29, of online cheating.
Before his death, Naroditsky denied any wrongdoing and indicated the controversy had taken its toll on him in his final Twitch broadcast.
Kramnik...
(BBC News) Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been ordered to testify in a landmark trial in the US over the impact of social media on young people.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Carolyn Kuhl this week rejected the argument his company, Meta Platforms, had made that an in-person appearance was unnecessary.
Her order also applies to Snap boss Evan Spiegel, as well as Adam Mosseri, who leads Meta-owned Instagram.
The trial, expected in January, is among...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) United States President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have signed an agreement on rare earth and critical minerals as China tightens control over global supply.
The two leaders signed the deal on Monday at the White House.
Trump said the agreement had been negotiated over four or five months. The two leaders will also discuss trade, submarines and military equipment, Trump said.
Albanese described it as an $8.5-billion pipeline “that we have...
(BBC News) The Louvre Museum in Paris has been forced to close while police investigate a brazen heist that targeted France's priceless crown jewels.
Thieves wielding power tools broke into the world's most visited museum in broad daylight, before escaping on scooters with eight "priceless" items of jewelry.
Here is what we know about the crime which has stunned France.
The theft occurred on Sunday between 09:30 and 09:40 local time, shortly after the museum opened to...
