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Russia has announced it is seeking the arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov over accusations of “complicity in terrorism”, alleging he allowed the platform to be used for recruitment by Ukraine’s security services. Doonited Affiliated: Syndicate News Hunt This report has been publish...
As firefighters continue to battle major blazes in France, the European Union’s crisis management chief is calling for more investment in prevention, forest management and emergency response. Doonited Affiliated: Syndicate News Hunt This report has been published as part of an auto-generated syndi...
A statue honoring Tiphaine Véron, the French tourist who vanished in Japan in 2018, was unveiled Wednesday near the Nikko hotel where she was last seen. Eight years on and still without a single solid lead, her family is now pushing for Japan’s national police to take over the stalled investigatio...
Published On 29 Jul 202629 Jul 2026 FIFA’s bombshell proposal to sell stakes in a $20bn commercial subsidiary has drawn strong criticism from football’s regional confederations, which said they were blindsided by the world governing body’s plan to bring private investors into the game. The Confederatio...
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has hailed a “good meeting” with United States President Donald Trump at the White House, saying the two leaders discussed plans to produce Patriot air-defence interceptors and ways to revive stalled negotiations with Russia. Doonited Affiliated: Syndicate Ne...
United States diplomats walked out of a United Nations Security Council meeting on Monday as their French counterparts were speaking, after Paris criticised the Trump administration’s human rights record and backed a second term for human rights chief Volker Turk. The move underlined the growing strain...
Chad has become the fifth country to begin a formal withdrawal process from the International Criminal Court in recent months, following Venezuela, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. Doonited Affiliated: Syndicate News Hunt This report has been published as part of an auto-generated syndicated wire feed. Exc...
Iran’s foreign ministry has said it had summoned the French ambassador to Tehran to protest the conduct of two diplomats who were briefly detained earlier this month. Doonited Affiliated: Syndicate News Hunt This report has been published as part of an auto-generated syndicated wire feed. Except f...
Keiko Fujimori was elected president and many people are sceptical she will be able to unite Peru as promised. It took four attempts over 15 years, but Keiko Fujimori has finally got Peru’s top job. She’s making history as the first woman to be elected president. Her victory makes Peru the latest in a s...
DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Drones launched at Saudi, Jordan and Iraq suggest Iran, or linked groups, may be testing US as it mulls new strategy. Published On 27 Jul 202627 Jul 2026 Saudi Arabia has reported intercepting drones that targeted oil facilities in its eastern province and Riyadh. Saudi...
No word on jailed Tunisian opposition leader Ghannouchi for 11 days, his son tells Al Jazeera. Published On 27 Jul 202627 Jul 2026 The son of jailed Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi says his family and lawyers have been unable to see or contact the 85-year-old for 11 days since he was hospit...
Iran and the United States have paused their attacks, offering Gulf shipping and global oil markets a respite after weeks of escalating strikes around the Strait of Hormuz. Doonited Affiliated: Syndicate News Hunt This report has been published as part of an auto-generated syndicated wire feed. Except f...
Firefighters are continuing to battle huge forest fires across France and Spain on Monday, as authorities warned that another heatwave could bring temperatures of up to 40C to the already scorched wine-growing region around Bordeaux. Doonited Affiliated: Syndicate News Hunt This report has been publishe...
Ifugao, Philippines – At first light, the village of Batad begins to stir to life beneath the towering cliffs surrounding its amphitheatre-like rice terraces, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Apu Penneng, an Ifugao elder who owns one of the village’s largest tracts of ricefields, struts with youthful confi...
Iran’s supreme leader calls for ‘absolute, unconditional termination’ of Israel’s attacks on Lebanon amid reports of renewed diplomacy. Published On 26 Jul 202626 Jul 2026 Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has said that peace between Tehran and the United States is contingent on Israel stopping its...
A few keywords in a search engine will bring up any number of strange laws involving animals in the United States. Many are urban myths: there is no law specifically prohibiting driving a car in Massachusetts with a gorilla in the back seat, although no one would dispute that would be a questionable ide...
DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Published On 26 Jul 202626 Jul 2026 German police have shot dead the suspect wanted for the car ramming attack on Berlin’s Pride march. Abdul Ballout, a German citizen with Lebanese roots, was killed as he attacked officers with a bladed weapon, police reported late on...
Migration is increasingly essential to Portugal’s economy, but the mental health of many new arrivals to the country is affected by the trauma of what they have left behind, long and arduous journeys, and the racism that greets them, fuelled by far-right rhetoric. In addition, mental health treatm...
Berlin police called off the LGBTQ+ pride parade in the German capital on Saturday, hours after the event had begun, saying it was because several people had been injured when a car drove into the crowd. Doonited Affiliated: Syndicate News Hunt This report has been published as part of an auto-generated...
As Iranian drones and missiles target Bahrain and Kuwait, RFI spoke with Mahdi Ghuloom of the Dubai-based ORF Middle East think tank, who believes long-standing tensions, the small size of the two countries and divisions over how the Gulf should respond are playing their part in this development. Dooni...
The Israeli parliament’s decision to postpone a vote on recognising the Armenian genocide by Ottoman Turkey is being seen as a triumph for regional diplomacy, as Azerbaijan in particular seeks to avert a further escalation in tensions between its close allies. The Israeli government gave no offici...
Concern is mounting in Haiti and in the United States ahead of the planned end of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians on 27 July, which could leave nearly 350,000 people at risk of deportation from the US. Doonited Affiliated: Syndicate News Hunt This report has been published as part of an auto-gen...
Five NGOs on Wednesday filed a case before France’s highest administrative court, seeking a ruling that would oblige the French government to take measures preventing French companies and economic institutions from conducting commercial activities in Israeli settlements. Doonited Affiliated: Syndicate N...
Former Senegalese president Macky Sall has pledged to restore trust in the United Nations and make the organisation more responsive as he seeks to become the first African to lead the global body in nearly three decades. Doonited Affiliated: Syndicate News Hunt This report has been published as part of...
The European Union’s top diplomat demanded on Thursday that the Houthis cease attacks on ships in the Red Sea, after a Saudi vessel was hit by the Iran-backed rebels. Doonited Affiliated: Syndicate News Hunt This report has been published as part of an auto-generated syndicated wire feed. Except...
Ukraine replaced its top military and political defence personnel in the past week even as its armed forces arguably achieved their best performance in three years. Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov’s ouster on July 15 was followed six days later by the replacement of Commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrski...
NewsFeed Al Jazeera’s Tohid Asadi reports from Tehran as the US launches strikes for the 13th consecutive night. Iranian leaders are warning further attacks could lead to retaliation targeting Gulf nations. Published On 24 Jul 202624 Jul 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share googleA...
NewsFeed The Houthis’ blockade of Bab al-Mandeb threatens a vital global trade route. Al Jazeera’s @nadaqaddourah explains how a crisis in the Red Sea could make everything more expensive. Published On 23 Jul 202623 Jul 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on G...
BREAKINGBREAKING, Sonam Wangchuk says he ended his fast to demand education minister’s resignation ‘in view of possible violence in the country’. Published On 23 Jul 202623 Jul 2026 Indian activist Sonam Wangchuk has ended his 26-day hunger strike demanding the resignation of Education Minister Dharm...
Hundreds of Israelis have entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem as part of one of the largest incursions seen this year. The Palestinian Authority said it expected the number of trespassers at the site to continue increasing until sunset on Thursday, potentially reaching about 5...
Maritime insurance prices have soared amid shipping disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz and are also rising for vessels traversing the Bab al-Mandeb, with both waterways – critical channels for the global economy – now theatres of war. Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group announced a blockade of Saudi Arab...
NewsFeed US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Iran will continue to ‘pay the price’ for what he said was the failure to stick to agreements, telling reporters that President Trump’s policy is ‘a head for an eye’. Published On 23 Jul 202623 Jul 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share...
NewsFeed Indian activist Sonam Wangchuk says he will end his hunger strike if the government guarantees that police will not use force against student protesters or take punitive action against them. Demonstrators are calling for the education minister to resign over a medical exam scandal. Published On...
German authorities on Wednesday gave the green light to a controversial French-Russian nuclear project which will use a factory based in Germany for production, and which critics fear will enable spying and sabotage by Moscow. Doonited Affiliated: Syndicate News Hunt This report has been published as pa...
Bologna, Italy – Six minutes and 56 seconds. That is the length of the video capturing the final moments of Abderrahim Fakir, a 42-year-old Moroccan-born man who had lived in Bologna, northern Italy, for more than three decades. Filmed shortly after 12:30pm local time (10:30 GMT) on Sunday from the balc...
NewsFeed For decades, neo-Nazis and far-right extremists flocked to the Austrian home where Adolf Hitler was born to glorify the Nazi leader. Now, the building has been transformed into a police station following a $22.8-million renovation. Published On 22 Jul 202622 Jul 2026 Click here to share on soci...
UN rights chief condemns worsening repression in Nicaragua, urging the restoration of freedoms and the rule of law. Published On 22 Jul 202622 Jul 2026 The United Nations human rights chief has condemned Nicaragua’s escalating crackdown on civil and political rights, days after President Daniel Ortega a...
EXPLAINER Several Ukrainian and Russian generals have been fired from their militaries over the course of the war in Ukraine. Published On 22 Jul 202622 Jul 2026 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has sacked his military chief Oleksandr Syrskii in the latest reshuffle in the country’s defence appar...
President Donald Trump has cleared a landmark nuclear cooperation deal with Saudi Arabia that could pave the way for the kingdom to enrich uranium on its own soil, according to US media reports, with a formal signing expected as early as Wednesday. Doonited Affiliated: Syndicate News Hunt This report ha...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev have signed a series of economic agreements aimed at deepening Berlin’s access to Baku’s gas reserves and transit routes. The deal comes as Germany works to diversify its energy supply, and as Azerbaijan balances a Europ...
US officials claim evidence points to lettuce grown in Mexico, which Mexico’s Health Ministry disputes. By Reuters and The Associated Press Published On 22 Jul 202622 Jul 2026 An outbreak of a parasitic stomach illness has infected more than 4,100 people across the United States. The US Centers for Dise...
The Lebanese army has begun deploying in three southern towns as part of a US-backed framework agreement with Israel. These ‘pilot zones’ are designed to test the army’s ability to enforce security and keep Hezbollah out of the designated areas. Al Jazeera’s Reem Takieddine explains. Published On 21 Jul...
Protests over the dismissal of Ukraine’s reformist defence minister entered a fifth day on Monday, deepening a political crisis that has placed President Volodymyr Zelensky under mounting pressure to overhaul the country’s military leadership. Doonited Affiliated: Syndicate News Hunt This report has bee...
France and Germany are pressing for a stronger European Union response to China’s growing trade surplus and industrial overcapacity, as concerns mount over the impact on key European sectors. Doonited Affiliated: Syndicate News Hunt This report has been published as part of an auto-generated syndicated...
Prime Minister Andy Burnham said politicians “need to be better” as he delivered his first speech Monday as Britain’s new leader. Doonited Affiliated: Syndicate News Hunt This report has been published as part of an auto-generated syndicated wire feed. Except for the headline, the content has not been m...
Hungary’s prime minister has proposed former chess grandmaster Judit Polgar for president, a position that will become vacant following last week’s constitutional amendment. Doonited Affiliated: Syndicate News Hunt This report has been published as part of an auto-generated syndicated wire...
On 16 July, Turkey marked a decade since the failed coup that shook the nation. Its defeat is widely viewed as the final curtain on military meddling in politics and as the moment when President Erdogan cemented his grip on power, yet the aftershocks for human rights and foreign relations still reverber...
The United States has attacked Iran for a ninth consecutive night after the US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) announced a US soldier had died in northern Iraq in a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian drone. Here is what happened over Sunday night and Monday morning a...
NewsFeed US President Donald Trump said the latest strikes on Iran, now in their ninth consecutive night, were carried out ‘in honour’ of American military personnel killed in Jordan and Iraq. The latest casualty figures bring the total number of US service members killed since the war began to 17, with...
Thirty-four days ago, Spain opened their World Cup campaign with a frustrating goalless draw against tournament debutants Cape Verde. On Sunday, they ended it with the World Cup trophy in their hands, defeating holders Argentina in the final in New Jersey. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list...
