(Al Jazeera Media Network) An estimated 77 people have been killed in an attack on Mali’s capital, Bamako, according to the AFP news agency.
About 200 others were injured in the attack, which took place on Tuesday and caused hospitals to be overwhelmed with wounded patients, a diplomat who asked to remain anonymous told the news agency. It’s unclear how the victims were wounded; however, residents reported gunshots and explosions. There was also smoke from apparent...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Israel will face “a crushing response from the axis of resistance,” the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hossein Salami, has told Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, according to state media.
Salami made the statement on Thursday after unprecedented attacks in the previous two days targeting Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies, which killed 37 people and wounded more than 2,900 when hundreds of devices were detonated almost simultaneously.
The “axis of resistance” refers to Iran-aligned armed...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Israel has intensified attacks on southern Lebanon, launching dozens of air raids amid fears of a wider escalation in the region.
Israeli warplanes targeted the towns of Mahmoudieh, Ksar al-Aroush and Birket Jabbour in the Jezzine area on Thursday, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported.
Three unnamed Lebanese security sources told the news agency Reuters it was some of the most intense bombing since the start of the war in Gaza in October...
(BBC News) Thousands of people have been injured in Lebanon, after pagers used by the armed group Hezbollah to communicate exploded almost simultaneously across the country on Tuesday.
At least 12 people were killed — including two children — Lebanese officials said. Some 2,800 were injured, many of them seriously.
It is unclear how the attack — which looks to have been highly sophisticated — occurred, though Hezbollah has blamed its adversary Israel. Israeli officials have...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Lawyers for the social media app TikTok and parent company ByteDance are squaring off in court with the United States Justice Department over a potential ban that the companies say would violate US freedom of speech laws.
On Monday, a three-judge federal US Court of Appeals panel in Washington, DC, began hearing oral arguments from both sides.
The video-sharing app used by 170 million people in the US has argued a ban would be...
(BBC News) The United States has dismissed claims made by Venezuela that the CIA plotted to assassinate President Maduro and other top officials.
Three US citizens, two Spaniards and one Czech national have been arrested on suspicion of plotting to destabilize the country, Venezuela's interior minister said.
Calling the detainees “mercenaries”, Diosdado Cabello claimed that the CIA “is leading the operation” and that hundreds of weapons had been seized.
The US rejected the claims, which came after Washington placed 16...
(BBC News) Former President Donald Trump is safe following gunshots "in his vicinity", his campaign said, after an incident took place near his Florida golf club on Sunday.
Secret Service agents saw a man pointing a rifle at the golf course where Trump was apparently located at the time, law enforcement sources told CBS News.
Agents fired multiple times at the suspect, who tried to run away, the sources said, adding that a suspect is now...
(BBC News) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Yemen's Houthis will pay a "heavy price" after a missile fired by the group landed in central Israel.
The Israeli military said the missile landed in an uninhabited area early on Sunday, but that shrapnel indicated air defence systems had failed to destroy it before it entered Israeli airspace.
It added that it was investigating how the missile was able to reach so far into Israeli territory.
The...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Russia and Ukraine have exchanged 103 prisoners of war from each side, both countries confirmed, with the United Arab Emirates acting as an intermediary.
The Russian Ministry of Defence said on Saturday that it swapped 103 Ukrainian soldiers held captive for an equal number of Russian POWs.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said: “Our people are home.”
The exchange was facilitated in the UAE’s eighth such mediation, the Gulf nation’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a co-founder of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, has pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking, murder and other charges in a New York court, months after his dramatic arrest and transfer into United States custody.
Zambada entered the plea to the 17 felony counts he faces, which include money laundering and weapons charges, at a hearing on Friday in Brooklyn, New York.
US Magistrate Judge James Cho ordered that...
