(Al Jazeera Media Network) China has been negotiating the creation of a new joint training facility on the Caribbean island nation of Cuba, creating concerns it could lead to the stationing of Chinese troops in the waters off the U.S., according to the Wall Street Journal.
The newspaper on Tuesday reported that discussions between the two countries are in advanced stages, but had not concluded. The report said officials from the administration of President Joe Biden have...
(BBC News) U.S. President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden is expected to plead guilty to two misdemeanour tax crimes and admit to illegally possessing a gun while a drug user, after a five-year investigation.
The U.S. Attorney in Delaware has filed papers indicating a plea agreement has been reached.
He is expected to agree to drug treatment and monitoring. The terms of the agreement are likely to keep him out of jail.
In theory, he still faces a...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Mourners laid their loved ones to rest hours after the Israeli military used helicopter gunships during a large-scale incursion into the occupied West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp, killing five Palestinians and wounding at least 91.
The fiercest clashes in years began early Monday after Israeli soldiers stormed the camp, firing live ammunition, stun grenades, and toxic gas, according to the Wafa news agency. Combat helicopters were used for the first time in...
(BBC News) A massive search and rescue operation is under way in the mid-Atlantic after a tourist submarine went missing during a dive to Titanic's wreck on Sunday.
Contact with the small sub was lost about an hour and 45 minutes into its dive, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
Tour firm OceanGate said all options were being explored to rescue the five people onboard.
Tickets cost $250,000 for an eight-day trip including dives to the wreck at...
(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...
