(BBC News) The Lebanese group Hezbollah says one of its commanders has been killed in a strike in southern Lebanon believed to have been carried out by Israel.
Wissam Tawil was reportedly a member of the group's elite Radwan Force, and one of the most prominent Hezbollah figures to be killed in the current violence.
Israel's military did not comment, but it did say it had hit Hezbollah targets in response to cross-border attacks.
The clashes have...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) North Korea has threatened an immediate military strike against South Korea in response to any “provocation”.
Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister and key ally of leader Kim Jong Un, made the threat on Sunday, as Pyongyang reportedly fired artillery shells near its border with South Korea for the third day in a row.
The remarks follow South Korean military reports that said the North had fired more than 60 artillery rounds...
(BBC News) The US Supreme Court says it will hear a historic case to determine whether Donald Trump can run for president.
The justices agreed to take up Trump's appeal against a decision by Colorado to remove him from the 2024 ballot in that state.
The case will be heard in February, and the ruling will apply nationwide.
Lawsuits in a number of states are seeking to disqualify Trump, arguing that he engaged in insurrection during the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) India’s solar observation mission has entered the sun’s orbit after a four-month journey, the latest success for the space exploration ambitions of the world’s most populous nation.
The Indian Space Research Organization’s Aditya-L1 mission was launched in September and is carrying an array of instruments to measure and observe the Sun’s outermost layers.
“India creates yet another landmark,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a post on X on Saturday. “It is a...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Shattered glass. Clashes with police. Angry protesters scaling walls outside the United States Capitol.
The images from the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, remain some of the most memorable in modern political history. That day saw thousands of supporters of then-President Donald Trump storm the building in an effort to overturn his election defeat, forcing legislators to flee for safety.
Three years on, the country continues to grapple with the ramifications....
(BBC News) A second batch of court papers linked to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein shows how dozens of girls were recruited at his beachfront mansion.
A Florida detective says in testimony that 30 women had spoken to him about "performing massage and work" there. Some were paid to bring their friends.
The court filings have been made public under order by a judge.
They are part of a lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's imprisoned former girlfriend.
She was jailed...
(BBC News) Hasan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, says the killing of Hamas's powerful deputy leader will "not go unpunished."
Saleh al-Arouri died in a drone attack in Beirut on Tuesday. Israel has not confirmed it was responsible.
Nasrallah described Arouri's death as a "major, dangerous crime about which we cannot be silent."
He added that if Israel wages war on Lebanon "there will be no ceilings, no rules" to Hezbollah's response.
"We are not afraid of war," said...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Dozens of people have been killed and more than 200 others wounded in explosions near the tomb of former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) General Qassem Soleimani during a ceremony marking four years since his assassination.
Two explosions were heard in the southeastern city of Kerman on Wednesday afternoon near the burial place of Soleimani, who was killed in a US drone strike, according to Iranian media reports.
Iranian Health Minister Bahram...
(BBC News) A long list of people associated with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is expected to be made public in the coming days.
The disclosures may throw new light on the sex trafficking network directed by Epstein, who died in 2019, and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
The disgraced pair mixed with high-profile figures from the worlds of politics, business, and royalty.
A judge ordered that the court documents in a lawsuit linked to Maxwell must be...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri has been killed in an Israeli drone strike on Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiyeh, the Palestinian group and Lebanese media outlets say.
Al-Arouri was killed on Tuesday in a “treacherous Zionist strike”, Hamas said on its official channel. Hamas politburo member Izzat al-Sharq called it a “cowardly assassination”.
Al-Arouri was a senior official in Hamas’s politburo and was known to be deeply involved in its military affairs....
