(BBC News) U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held "candid" and "constructive" talks with China's foreign minister in Beijing at the start of two days of meetings with Chinese officials, the U.S. State Department has said.
Blinken emphasized the need for diplomacy and keeping "open channels of communication," U.S. officials added.
The trip, the first by a U.S. diplomat to China in almost five years, comes months after an earlier Blinken visit was postponed when a...
(BBC News) Around 40 people, mostly pupils, have been killed at a school in western Uganda by rebels linked to the Islamic State group (IS).
A further eight people remain in a critical condition after the attack on Lhubiriha secondary school in Mpondwe.
Boys staying in dormitories are among the dead. Several others, mostly girls, have been abducted, authorities say.
The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) — based in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) — have been...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) NATO has established a new centre focused on protecting undersea pipelines and data cables following the apparent attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines and as concerns mount that Russia has mapped vital western underwater infrastructure around Europe.
The defence ministers of NATO members approved plans for a NATO “maritime centre for the security of critical underwater infrastructure” at a meeting in Brussels, NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.
The centre will...
(University of Geneva) With almost 250 million cases a year, 621,000 of them fatal, malaria remains a major public health problem, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
Malaria is a parasitic disease transmitted by mosquitoes and caused by a microbe of the genus Plasmodium. On its journey from mosquito to human, Plasmodium must adapt to the specificities of the many organs and cells it parasitizes. Microbes do not have sensory organs; instead, they have sensors made of...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Mali has called on the United Nations to withdraw its peacekeeping mission from the country “without delay,” denouncing its “failure” to respond to security challenges.
Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop, who is part of Mali’s interim military authorities, told a UN Security Council meeting on Friday that the peacekeeping force known as MINUSMA should withdraw its troops from the West African nation.
El Ghassim Wane, the head of the UN mission in Mali, said after...
(BBC News) At least 15 people have died in a road crash in the Canadian province of Manitoba, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.
The crash was between a semi-trailer truck and a bus carrying mostly elderly people.
Police said the collision happened on the Trans-Canada Highway near Carberry, two hours west of Winnipeg.
In several tweets, the RCMP in Manitoba said it was responding to a "very serious... mass causality" collision, and that all of its...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Several U.S. government agencies have been hit in a global hacking campaign that exploited a vulnerability in a widely used software, the United States cyber-watchdog agency said Thursday.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said several federal agencies had experienced intrusions following the discovery of a weakness in the file transfer software MOVEit, Eric Goldstein, the agency’s executive assistant director for cybersecurity, said in a statement.
“We are working urgently...
(BBC News) At least 79 people have died and more than 100 have been rescued after their fishing vessel capsized off the coast of southern Greece.
But survivors and Greek officials say that hundreds more migrants were on board.
The government says this is one of Greece's biggest migrant tragedies, and has declared three days of mourning.
The boat went down about 80 km southwest of Pylos after the coastguard said it had refused help.
The coastguard said...
(BBC News) Donald Trump will have another day in court on Tuesday, when he is due to surrender to authorities in Miami to face charges that he mishandled classified documents.
The first former president ever to face federal charges, he is accused of 37 criminal counts of unauthorized possession of classified material, obstruction of justice, and making false statements to law enforcement.
Trump's court appearance is his second in less than three months. He was arraigned...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Taiwan sent up fighters and deployed ships and land-based missile systems to keep watch on Chinese aircraft on Sunday after spotting 10 Chinese warplanes crossing the median line, which separates the two sides, of the Taiwan Strait.
The island’s defence ministry said four Chinese warships also carried out combat patrols.
This is the second time in less than a week that Taiwan has reported renewed Chinese military activity after 37 Chinese military aircraft...
