(BBC News) The Screen Actors Guild has announced it will go on strike, marking the start of the largest shutdown Hollywood has seen in 40 years.
The union wants streaming giants to agree to a fairer split of profits and better working conditions.
The walkout means that 160,000 performers will stop work at midnight.
Stars Cillian Murphy and Emily Blunt left the Oppenheimer premiere as the strike began, according to director Christopher Nolan.
The SAG strike will begin...
(BBC News) NATO states have said Ukraine can join the military alliance "when allies agree and conditions are met" after President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized the "absurd" delay to accession.
In a release, NATO said it recognized the need to move faster but would not be drawn on a timeframe.
Earlier, Zelensky said there seemed to be "no readiness" to invite Ukraine to NATO or make it a member.
He is now in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, where...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Cuba’s government has decried the presence of a nuclear-powered submarine at the United States naval base in Guantanamo Bay, calling it a “provocative escalation.”
In a statement released on Tuesday, the Caribbean nation’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the sub had relocated to Guantanamo Bay on Wednesday and stayed until Saturday.
The presence of the submarine “makes it imperative to wonder what is the military reason behind this action in this peaceful region of the...
(BBC News) Former U.S. national gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar was stabbed multiple times by another inmate on Sunday, CBS News reports.
Nassar, 59, was sentenced to up to 175 years in prison for molesting gymnasts.
He is reportedly in hospital in stable condition after the Sunday attack.
He suffered a collapsed lung after being stabbed twice in the neck, twice in the back, and six times in the chest, a prison union leader told NBC.
In a...
(BBC News) The body of a correspondent for one of Mexico's leading newspapers has been found in the western state of Nayarit, days after he was reported missing.
Luis Martín Sánchez Íñiguez, 59, worked for La Jornada and had been missing since Wednesday.
His death is being treated as a murder linked to his work, in one of the most dangerous countries for journalists.
Sánchez is one of three journalists to have been abducted in the state...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said his coalition government was resigning over “insurmountable” differences about measures to curb the number of people seeking refuge in the country.
The resignation on Friday of Rutte, 56, the Netherlands’ longest-serving leader, and his coalition government means the country will face a general election later this year.
“It is no secret that the coalition partners have very different views on migration policy,” Rutte told reporters in The Hague.
“And...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who last month brokered a deal to end Wagner’s mutiny in Russia, has said that its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was no longer in Belarus.
Lukashenko said on June 27 that Prigozhin, whose fighters briefly captured a southern Russian city and marched toward Moscow, had arrived in Belarus as part of the June 24 deal that defused the crisis.
But addressing reporters on Thursday, he said: “As for Prigozhin, he’s in...
(BBC News) Twitter is considering legal action against Meta over its fast-growing rival app Threads.
Threads, which was launched to millions on Wednesday, is similar to Twitter and has been pitched by Meta bosses as a "friendly" alternative.
Twitter's Elon Musk said "competition is fine, cheating is not" – but Meta denied claims in a legal letter that ex-Twitter staff helped create Threads.
More than 30 million people have signed up for the new app, according to...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Instagram and Facebook owner Meta has launched social media network Threads, aiming to capitalize on turmoil at Twitter under owner Elon Musk.
“Let’s do this,” Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wrote on Wednesday in a post welcoming users to the site. “Welcome to Threads.”
“I think the world needs this kind of friendly community,” Zuckerberg said in a separate post on Instagram after the app went live. “And I’m grateful to all of...
(BBC News) Israeli forces have started withdrawing from Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, a defence source says.
This ends a major two-day operation during which 12 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier have been killed.
Gunfire and explosions could be heard across Jenin camp as the news emerged on Tuesday evening.
The Israeli military said later that it had intercepted five rockets fired towards southern Israel by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip.
No group immediately...
