(BBC News) US Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer has called for new elections in Israel, accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of prioritizing his "political survival" above the country.
Schumer, a Democrat and the highest-ranking Jewish official in the US, said Netanyahu had "lost his way."
He warned that huge civilian casualties in Gaza risked alienating allies and turning Israel into a global "pariah".
It is a sharp escalation in US criticism of Netanyahu's government. Officials in Washington, including...
(BBC New) The judge overseeing an election interference case against Donald Trump in Georgia has thrown out some criminal charges, but left most in place.
Judge Scott McAfee found six counts in the 41-count indictment against Trump and some of his co-defendants, including Rudy Giuliani, lacked detail.
But he said the charges can still be refiled at a later date.
Trump was among 19 people charged with a conspiracy to overturn the state's 2020 election results.
"The lack...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) An aid ship loaded with food has departed Cyprus heading for Gaza, after days of delay.
The Open Arms, owned by a charity of the same name, left Larnaca port early on Tuesday, towing a barge containing about 200 tonnes of flour, rice, and protein. The voyage is a test of a planned sea corridor to carry aid to a population on the brink of starvation.
Mostly funded by the United Arab...
(BBC News) Donald Trump will not fund Ukraine's fight against Russia's invasion if he is elected US president again, Hungarian PM Viktor Orban has said.
"He will not give a penny in the Ukraine-Russia war. That is why the war will end," the conservative premier said after meeting Trump in Florida.
The former US president has pledged to end the war "within 24 hours" if elected – but provided no details.
Orban is openly backing his long-term...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Ukraine has rejected Pope Francis’s call to hold negotiations with Russia more than two years into its invasion, saying that Kyiv will “never” surrender.
“Our flag is a yellow and blue one. This is the flag by which we live, die, and prevail. We shall never raise any other flags,” Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on social media Sunday, a day after the pope said Kyiv should “have the courage...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) A dual referendum in the Republic of Ireland on redefining family and women’s roles in the constitution has been defeated, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said.
The government supported the proposed changes, which would have widened the definition of the family and clarified the duties of women in society.
Varadkar had described Friday’s polls, which deliberately fell on International Women’s Day, as a chance to do away with “very old-fashioned, very sexist language about...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered heightened readiness for war after inspecting troops at a major military operations base in the country’s west.
The state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) did not reveal the location of the base in its report on Thursday.
The North Korean leader said the military must “dynamically usher in a new heyday of intensifying the war preparations in line with the requirements of the prevailing...
(BBC News) Five people have died after a parachute failed on an aid package dropped by air into Gaza on Friday, reports say.
An eyewitness and the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said the five were killed when at least one parachute failed to deploy and a parcel fell on them, CBS reports.
AFP news agency quoted a Gaza doctor as saying five people were killed.
It is unclear which airdrop was involved in the incident.
The US,...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Hamas says its delegation has left Egypt but talks on a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip will continue next week until an agreement is reached with Israel, whom the Palestinian group says has “thwarted” mediators’ attempts to broker a deal before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
“Hamas’s delegation left Cairo this morning for consultation with the leadership of the movement, with negotiations and efforts continuing to stop the aggression, return...
(BBC News) More than 280 Nigerian school pupils have been abducted in the north-western town of Kuriga, officials say.
The pupils were in the assembly ground around 08:30 (07:30 GMT) when dozens of gunmen on motorcycles rode through the school, one witness said.
The students, between the ages of eight and 15, were taken away, along with a teacher, they added.
Kidnap gangs, known as bandits, have seized hundreds of people in recent years, especially the northwest.
However,...
