(BBC News) US President Donald Trump has said he wants Egypt and Jordan to take in Palestinians from Gaza.
Trump said he had made the request to Jordan's King Abdullah and planned to ask Egypt's president on Sunday, too.
Describing Gaza as a "demolition site", Trump said: "You're talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing." He added that the move "could be temporary" or "could be...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) US President Donald Trump has ordered tariffs and visa restrictions on Colombia after Bogota turned away two US military aircraft transporting migrants being deported under Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Washington will slap Colombia with 25 percent “emergency tariffs” on all goods coming into the US, which would then be raised to 50 percent in a week, Trump wrote on Truth Social, the social media platform that he owns on Sunday.
He added that...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Hamas has released four female Israeli soldiers held in Gaza, and 200 Palestinian prisoners have been released from Israeli jails as part of the ceasefire agreement that halted more than 15 months of war.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirmed on Saturday that it had transferred 128 Palestinian detainees to Gaza and the West Bank while local authorities handled the release and transfer of the remainder, completing the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) At least 12 peacekeepers, including two from the UN peacekeeping force MONUSCO, have been killed in fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), authorities said.
Congolese troops and peacekeepers have been battling in recent days to stop an advance by M23 rebels on the city of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province.
The three-year M23 rebellion in Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich east has intensified in January with rebels seizing control of...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The Israeli army’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon will last beyond the 60 days agreed in a ceasefire deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says, claiming the agreement has not yet been fully enforced by Lebanon.
The statement on Friday came after the Israeli army attacked towns in the border region of southern Lebanon just two days before it is supposed to withdraw troops under the ceasefire with Hezbollah.
Lebanon’s official National News Agency...
(BBC News) Five new fires have erupted in southern California ahead of US President Donald Trump's visit to the state.
The blazes – named Laguna, Sepulveda, Gibbel, Gilman and Border 2 – flared up on Thursday in the counties of Los Angeles, San Diego, Ventura and Riverside.
Firefighters have made progress in bringing the 10,000-acre Hughes Fire in Los Angeles under control, containing it by 36% since it broke out on Wednesday.
Fires have devastated the US state...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Micheal Martin has been elected as the Republic of Ireland’s prime minister for a second time.
Lawmakers voted on Thursday 95 to 76 in support of the nomination of the Fianna Fail leader.
Martin will lead a coalition government made up of the two largest centre-right parties, in addition to independent lawmakers.
His nomination was delayed by a day after the initial vote to elect him descended into chaos on Wednesday, as parliament...
(BBC News) Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family who controlled it have agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion to settle claims regarding its powerful prescription painkiller OxyContin.
The deal represents an increase of more than $1 billion on a previous settlement that was rejected in 2024 by the US Supreme Court, according to news agencies AP and Reuters.
Under the terms of the settlement, the Sacklers agreed to pay up to $6.5 billion and Purdue to...
(BBC News) President Donald Trump has urged Russia's Vladimir Putin to make a deal to end the "ridiculous" Ukraine war or face new tariffs and sanctions.
In a social media post, he said he had a good relationship with his Russian counterpart but if a deal was not made soon he would impose fresh economic penalties.
Meanwhile, all refugees' travel to the US is being suspended, following an executive order from Trump.
It means refugees with permission to...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) United States President Donald Trump’s administration has directed that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) staff be put on paid leave and eventually be laid off.
An Office of Personnel Management memo, first reported by CBS News, directed agencies to place DEI office staffers on paid leave by 5pm (22:00 GMT) on Wednesday and take down all public DEI-focused webpages by the same deadline.
Agencies must also cancel any DEI-related training...
