(BBC News) Kamala Harris is visiting the US southern border for the first time since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee.
Although numbers of migrants crossing this border have dropped significantly in recent months, Donald Trump has been attacking her and President Joe Biden's record on illegal immigration.
Trump claims that "Kamala Harris has allowed 21 million illegals to pour in from all over the world."
The Democrats blame Trump, saying he worked to block the passing of...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Russia has tailored its nuclear response doctrine to the specific threat of the long-range attacks it faces from Ukraine, even as Kyiv’s forces demonstrated during the past week the devastating effect such attacks can have on Moscow’s conventional war effort.
Russian President Vladimir Putin recently “outlined the approaches” to a new edition of the Fundamentals of State Policy on nuclear weapons use, wrote his right-hand man, deputy head of the National Security Council Dmitry Medvedev,...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Sudan’s army has launched a major offensive in the capital, Khartoum, to regain ground held by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), military sources have told Al Jazeera.
The army carried out air raids on Thursday against RSF positions in the capital and north of Khartoum in its biggest assault in months.
The army attacked several military sites belonging to the RSF, the sources said, and the Sudanese Air Force was carrying out several...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that he wants to open a “constructive” chapter in his country’s international relations and that Tehran is “ready to engage” with the West over its nuclear program.
In his first speech at the UN’s annual gathering of world leaders on Tuesday, Pezeshkian also strongly criticized Israel for what he called “its genocide in Gaza” and its “atrocities”, “crimes against humanity” and “desperate...
(BBC News) It's been another day of intense cross-border fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Here are the latest developments:
Preparing for possibility of boots on the ground: Israeli military chief Herzi Halevi has told troops that extensive air strikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon are preparing the ground for them to “enter enemy territory”.
Cross-border fire continues: The Lebanese health ministry said Israeli strikes have killed at least 51 people and injured 220 today. Earlier, Israel said it had intercepted a...
(BBC News) At least 492 people have been killed in wide-ranging Israeli air strikes targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon, the country’s health ministry says, in the deadliest day of conflict there in almost 20 years.
Thousands of families have fled their homes as the Israeli military said it hit 1,300 Hezbollah targets in an operation to destroy infrastructure that the armed group had built up since the 2006 war.
Hezbollah, meanwhile, launched more than 200 rockets into northern...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has begun a high-stakes visit to the United States during which he will present Kyiv’s plan to end the more than two-and-a-half-year-old war against invading Russian forces to US President Joe Biden as well as election rivals Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
Zelenskyy, who will also attend the annual meeting of the United Nations on Tuesday and Wednesday, urged Ukraine’s allies to help achieve “a shared victory for a...
(BBC News) Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets from Lebanon overnight, landing much deeper into Israel than in previous attacks.
Residential buildings in Kiryat Bialik were set alight and some people were injured. Rescue teams arrived at the scene to treat the wounded, while Israeli security forces cordoned off the area.
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(Al Jazeera Media Network) The United States Secret Service has acknowledged a series of security failures it made during a July campaign rally where Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was shot at and wounded in the ear.
In a review of the July 13 assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, the Secret Service identified “deficiencies” in advanced security planning and poor coordination with local police, said the agency’s acting director, Ronald Rowe.
“While some members of the advance team...
(BBC News) The Israeli military has issued an update on yesterday's strike in southern Lebanon, saying it has killed a dozen senior commanders in Hezbollah's elite Radwan force.
In what it describes as a "precise strike", the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says it killed Ibrahim Aqil – head of operations and Radwan commander – and 15 other Hezbollah members.
The group had been meeting in Dahieh, a known stronghold of the Iran-backed group in the Lebanese...
