Russia unleashed one of its most intense barrages in recent weeks against western Ukraine overnight, firing hundreds of drones and missiles, according to Ukrainian officials. The strikes hit Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk and Lviv, leaving one person dead and several others injured.

United States President Donald Trump has said American troops will not be deployed to Ukraine as part of any agreement to end Russia’s war, ruling out a direct US military presence in the country’s post-war security arrangements. In an interview with Fox News on Tuesday,

China will hold a large-scale military parade in central Beijing next month to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, an event set to unveil new weaponry “displayed to the outside world for the first time,” according to state media. Hundreds of People’s

Almost 19,000 children are among more than 62,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since the war began nearly two years ago, according to figures released by Gaza’s Government Media Office. The devastating toll comes as the United Nations Relief and Works Agency

A devastating traffic accident in western Afghanistan has claimed the lives of 73 people, including 17 children, most of them Afghan migrants recently deported from Iran, a Taliban official confirmed to BBC Pashto. The tragedy occurred on Tuesday night in Herat province, when a bus

US President Donald Trump has said Ukraine will not be able to join NATO or reclaim Crimea, the peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014, as part of any potential peace settlement with Moscow. Speaking ahead of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s arrival in Washington for

Three men were killed and at least eight others injured in a shooting at a packed nightclub in Brooklyn, New York City, early Sunday morning, police said. The incident occurred just before 3:30 am (07:30 GMT) at Taste of the City Lounge in Crown Heights, following what authorities

The death toll from torrential rains and floods in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province in the last 48 hours has risen to 307, the KP Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) said on Saturday, with at least 23 people injured in various incidents. The

The United Nations human rights office has reported that at least 1,760 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza while attempting to access humanitarian aid since late May, marking a sharp increase from figures published earlier this month. Hospital sources told Al Jazeera that Israeli

United States President Donald Trump appeared subdued after his highly anticipated summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska ended without achieving its central aim – securing a ceasefire in Ukraine. Before the meeting, held on Friday in Anchorage, Trump had voiced

Libya is set to hold rare municipal elections on Saturday, in a ballot seen as a test of democracy in a nation still plagued by division and instability. Key eastern cities — including Benghazi, Sirte and Tobruk — have rejected the vote, highlighting the deep rifts between

Over 120 people were killed as Israel’s military pounded Gaza City on Wednesday prior to a planned takeover, while Hamas held further talks with Egyptian mediators. The death toll was the worst in a week and added to the massive fatalities from the nearly two-year conflict that

Multiple law enforcement officers have been shot in southern Virginia, a congressman said Wednesday. U.S. Rep. John McGuire, who represents Virginia's 5th congressional district, said in a post on X that his thoughts and prayers were with deputies shot in Pittsylvania County. He

Wildfires burned in parts of Europe on Tuesday as millions of people across the continent struggled to adapt to the new reality: record summer heat. Temperatures in some areas soared past 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit). Europe is warming faster than any other continent, at

A gunman opened fire Monday in the parking lot of a Target store in Texas' capital, killing at least three people, before stealing two cars during a getaway that ended with police using a Taser to detain him on the other side of the city, authorities said. Austin Police Chief Lisa

Delhi Police detained senior opposition MPs, including the Congress' Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut, Monday morning as their protests over the Election Commission's 'collusion' with the ruling BJP spilled over into the

Australia will recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September, following similar moves by the UK, France and Canada, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said. Albanese said Australia received commitments from the Palestinian Authority (PA) including to

Five Al Jazeera journalists have been killed in an Israeli strike near Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital, the broadcaster has said. Correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, alongside cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa were in a tent for journalists at

London’s police service said Sunday that officers had arrested 522 people the previous day for breaching anti-terror laws by supporting the recently proscribed group Palestine Action. In an update to its previous arrest tally, the Met said all but one of those 522 arrests took

Twin cathedral bells rang in unison Saturday in Japan’s Nagasaki for the first time since the atomic bombing of the city 80 years ago, commemorating the moment the atrocity took place. On Aug. 9, 1945, at 11:02 a.m., three days after a nuclear attack on Hiroshima, the United