(Al Jazeera Media Network) Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store has said a plane carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy from Moldova to Oslo was almost hit by a drone.
Zelenskyy arrived in Norway’s capital on Tuesday evening to attend the funeral of Norway’s King Harald V.
“His flight was almost hit by a drone when it was taking off from Moldova,” Store told Norwegian public broadcaster NRK on Wednesday. “That is the reality he lives in.”
Store did...
Media literacy has been a concept since the dawn of human communication. From ancient cave drawings and hieroglyphics to medieval paintings, people have always told stories. And stories are open to interpretation. How someone examines, absorbs, and reacts to these messages and images is media literacy.
Historically, we have not been able to easily manufacture images and videos out of thin air. Thanks to the recent introduction of generative AI technology, the cost of certainty...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Chad has joined a growing list of countries as it announced plans to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The military government declared on Monday that Chad had begun the process to leave the court, which prosecutes war crimes and other violations of humanitarian law and is based in The Hague in the Netherlands.
The northern African nation is the fifth state in recent months to quit the international tribunal, as...
(BBC News) Elon Musk on Friday became the world's first trillionaire after shares in his SpaceX rocket company soared during the biggest-ever stock market debut.
The Tesla and SpaceX founder comfortably cemented his status as the world's richest man, with his total net worth standing at $1.11 trillion USD, according to the Bloomberg rich list.
It came as the rocket, telecommunications and artificial intelligence (AI) company listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange with a value of...
(BBC News) Autocratic monarchs once left an echo of their glory in the ruins of the megaprojects they commanded at the peak of their unchallenged power. Those monumental physical traces are to be found in the fertile plains, mountainsides and deserts of the Middle East. But one of their most prominent modern counterparts may only have a digital footprint to leave behind for some of his most ambitious concepts.
A decade ago, the Crown Prince...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Russia has warned it plans to launch a “series of systematic strikes” on defence industrial facilities in Kyiv, and urged foreign citizens to leave the Ukrainian capital.
In a statement, the Ministry of Defence said the strikes are in response to a Ukrainian drone attack last week that struck a student dorm in Starobilsk in the occupied Luhansk region, killing at least 18 people.
Ukraine has raised its drone warfare capabilities in recent months,...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Cuba has announced the first shipment in an expected donation from China of about 60,000 tonnes of rice, as the Caribbean island contends with an ongoing humanitarian crisis.
In a series of social media posts on Sunday, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel confirmed that the first load of 15,000 tonnes had arrived a day earlier in the port of Havana.
He also expressed “deep gratitude” to China, as well as to members of the European Parliament who...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) On Thursday, the acting United States Navy secretary, Hung Cao, was asked by a Senate committee about $14 billion in weapons sales to Taiwan that Congress has approved but that President Donald Trump needs to sign off on.
“Right now we’re doing a pause,” said Cao, “in order to make sure we have the munitions we need for Epic Fury – which we have plenty.”
Epic Fury is the name of the US...
(BBC News) At least 82 people have been killed and two are missing after a coal mine blast in northern China, according to state media.
The gas explosion at the Liushenyu Coal Mine in Shanxi province is the worst mining disaster in China since 2009.
There were 247 workers reportedly on duty when the blast happened at 19:29 local time (11:29 GMT) on Friday, with more than 100 people said to be saved and hundreds of...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Venezuela has emerged as India’s third-largest crude oil supplier this month, as the war on Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz force countries to scramble for alternative energy sources.
Shipments from Venezuela to India are nearly 50 percent higher than they were in April, according to energy tracking data.
Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodriguez is expected to travel to India next week to discuss oil sales, United States Secretary of State...
