(BBC News) Flash floods have killed at least 46 people in a village hosting Hindu pilgrims in Indian-administered Kashmir.
The flooding took place in the remote village of Chositi in Kishtwar district, which is on a busy pilgrimage route to a famous shrine in the Himalayas.
Videos shared online showed dramatic flood waters, vehicles being washed away and rescuers searching for survivors in damaged homes, as people cried in the streets — some caked in mud.
Dozens of...
(BBC News) Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has indicated that Gaza ceasefire efforts are now focused on a comprehensive deal to release all the remaining hostages at once.
The plan previously being pushed was for an initial 60-day truce and partial release of living hostages.
Hamas says a delegation of its leaders is in Cairo for "preliminary talks" with Egyptian officials.
Reports say that mediators see a window of opportunity in the coming weeks to try to...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Clashes in Serbia have continued for a second day as opponents and supporters of the Serbian government faced off, each side staging its own demonstrations, following more than nine months of sustained protests against populist President Aleksandar Vucic.
The president’s supporters and antigovernment demonstrators launched flares and other objects at each other in the northern city of Novi Sad on Wednesday evening, requiring the intervention of riot police, according to local...
(BBC News) A South Korean former tech executive accused of helping to spark a cryptocurrency crisis that cost investors more than $40 billion has pleaded guilty to two criminal counts of fraud.
Do Kwon was the boss of Singapore-based Terraform Labs, which operated two cryptocurrencies – TerraUSD and Luna – both of which collapsed in 2022, triggering a wider selloff in the crypto market.
The US says he was responsible for the failure of the two...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by the Trump administration began arriving as police and federal officials took the first steps in an uneasy partnership to reduce crime in what President Donald Trump called a lawless city.
The influx on Tuesday came the morning after the Republican president announced he would be activating the guard members and taking over the district’s police department. He cited a crime emergency – but...
(BBC News) The UN's human rights office has condemned a targeted Israeli attack that killed six journalists in Gaza, calling it a grave breach of international law.
Five Al Jazeera journalists, including correspondent Anas al-Sharif, were killed in an Israeli air strike on Sunday. Two others were killed, including a freelance journalist, the broadcaster said.
Israel's military said it targeted Sharif, alleging he had "served as the head of a terrorist cell in Hamas" - something...
(BBC News) US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in Alaska next Friday to discuss the future of the war in Ukraine.
Trump announced the August 15 meeting on social media, and it was later confirmed by a Kremlin spokesperson, who said the location was "quite logical" given Alaska's relative proximity to Russia.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said any solutions must include Ukraine, adding he is ready to work with all partners towards a...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) India shot down five Pakistani fighter jets and one other military aircraft during fighting in May, India’s air force chief says, the first such statement from the country since the deadly conflict with its neighbour.
Air Chief Marshal Staff Amar Preet Singh made the announcement on Saturday, weeks after India’s military acknowledged that an unspecified number of its own jets were shot down by Pakistan during their heaviest fighting in decades....
(BBC News) Scientists have found strong evidence of a giant gas planet in the nearest star system to our own.
At four-and-a-half light years away, the lifeless planet would be a close neighbour to Earth in astronomical terms and could have moons that sustain life.
The signs were found in the star system Alpha Centauri by the powerful James Webb Space Telescope.
The potential planet was detected last year, but it had disappeared in follow-up observations. Astronomers...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) President Donald Trump has secretly signed an order directing the military to take action against drug-smuggling cartels and other criminal groups from Latin America, according to a report in The New York Times.
The newspaper’s report on Friday appeared to confirm statements earlier in the week from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who signalled the US military had approval to take aggressive action against cartels.
“It allows us to now target what they are...
