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Results 1 to 30Ukrainians were shocked by Russia’s war. Now many are numb and hopeless
2026-02-24, 10:23From Lviv in the west to Mariupol in the south, not one Ukrainian I spoke to in the weeks before February 24, 2022, predicted what was to come. More than 150,000 Russian troops were positioned along the border with Ukraine, yet most people dismissed the buildup as political theatre.Recommended...
Army helicopter crashes into Iran market, killing 2 pilots and 2 merchants
2026-02-24, 09:46Tehran, Iran – Two military pilots and two merchants have been killed after an army helicopter crashed into a fruit market in central Iran. The crash on Tuesday morning occurred in Dorcheh, a town in Isfahan province, where the army has a major airbase, according to state media, which said the cause...
Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao agree to fight rematch in September
2026-02-24, 09:46Boxing icons Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao will face off in a professional rematch in Las Vegas on September 19, with the bout streaming globally on Netflix, the fighters and promoters have announced. The rematch will be the first boxing event to be held at Sphere, the immersive event venue...
Mapping Russian attacks and territorial gains across Ukraine
2026-02-24, 09:28In the early hours of February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared on Russian state television to announce a “special military operation” against Ukraine. A full-scale invasion of Ukraine came days after the Russian president recognised the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as...
Huge northeast US snowstorm forces millions home; disrupts schools, flights
2026-02-24, 09:28A massive snowstorm has pummelled the northeast United States, with residents, municipal workers, and a powerful railroad snow-clearing machine nicknamed “Darth Vader” working tirelessly to excavate the region. The storm – record-breaking in some areas – forced millions of people to stay home, shut...
Schools shut, troops on streets: Mexico on alert after ‘El Mencho’ killing
2026-02-24, 08:52Mexico remains on high alert after a wave of reprisal attacks triggered by the killing of its most wanted drug cartel leader, even as President Claudia Sheinbaum claimed the country is at peace and life is returning to normal. Some 10,000 soldiers have been deployed across 20 of Mexico’s 32 states...
With ‘El Mencho’ killed, what’s next for Mexico and the Jalisco cartel?
2026-02-24, 08:34The killing of Nemesio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes, the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion, or CJNG), has triggered a wave of violence across several Mexican states, including Jalisco. Cervantes, better known as “El Mencho”, was killed in an operation by...
US women’s gold medal ice hockey team declines Trump’s State of the Union
2026-02-24, 08:34The women’s ice hockey team of the United States has declined an invitation to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, US media reported, after he joked he would be “impeached” if he did not ask them to attend. NBC cited a statement from the women’s team on Monday, saying players...
Nearly 20 countries slam Israel’s ‘de facto annexation’ drive in West Bank
2026-02-24, 08:16Foreign ministers of 19 countries, including Turkiye, Qatar, France and Brazil, have signed a joint statement condemning Israel’s moves to unlawfully extend and consolidate its control over Palestinian land. The statement issued late Monday by the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs described...
Russia-Ukraine war live: Putin failed to achieve goals, says Zelenskyy
2026-02-24, 07:58On the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale...
Russia-Ukraine war live: Putin failed to achieve war goals, says Zelenskyy
2026-02-24, 07:22On the war anniversary, Ukraine’s...
Hong Kong conglomerate says Panama Canal ports seized by authorities
2026-02-24, 07:22The government of Panama has seized control of two ports on either end of the Panama Canal from a Hong Kong conglomerate following a recent ruling by the country’s Supreme Court. Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison said on Tuesday that Panama’s government had “made direct physical entry into the terminals at...
France restricts US ambassador’s access to officials after summons no-show
2026-02-24, 07:03France has banned United States Ambassador Charles Kushner from meeting French government ministers, after he failed to attend a meeting at the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs in Paris to explain comments made by the Trump administration following the recent killing of a French far-right...
Kashmir, spying, demolitions: How Modi’s India embraced ‘Israel model’
2026-02-24, 07:03New Delhi, India – At a private event in November 2019, Sandeep Chakravorty, India’s...
Devastation and frozen frontlines: Ukraine marks four years of Russia’s war
2026-02-24, 06:27Kyiv, Ukraine – Hennady Kolesnik never expected the full-scale Russian invasion to last this long. “These are the worst and longest years of my life,” the 71-year-old retired welder told Al Jazeera four years after the aggression that began on February 24, 2022.Recommended Stories list of 4...
LIVE: Russia-Ukraine war enters fifth year as strikes hit Zaporizhzhia
2026-02-24, 05:51Ukrainian officials say...
FedEx sues US government for tariff refund after Supreme Court ruling
2026-02-24, 05:15FedEx has sued the United States government to obtain a refund of money the logistics giant paid for tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump, just days after the US Supreme Court struck down the legal basis for the president’s scheme. The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Trump had overstepped...
North Korea promotes Kim Jong Un’s sister as he vows to boost economy
2026-02-24, 04:39The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been promoted in the ruling party structure at the party congress, during which he set the country’s economic agenda for the next five years, according to state media. The ruling Workers’ Party Central Committee named the North Korean...
Moscow policeman killed in bomb attack on Ukraine war anniversary
2026-02-24, 04:21A deadly explosion has rocked a central Moscow train station when an attacker set off a bomb next to a police car, killing himself and one officer. The blast occurred minutes after midnight local time on Tuesday (21:06 GMT, Monday), near the Russian capital’s Savyolovsky train station, one of the...
Afghanistan bombing: What’s Pakistan’s strategy as India-Taliban ties grow?
2026-02-24, 04:21Islamabad, Pakistan – In the weeks before the Pakistani military carried out air raids inside Afghanistan over the weekend, violence had been unrelenting. On February 6, a suicide bomber detonated explosives during Friday prayers at a Shia mosque in the capital, Islamabad, killing at least 36...
Australian PM backs removal of ex-Prince Andrew from succession line
2026-02-24, 03:09Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that his government is writing to Commonwealth countries about its support to have the United Kingdom’s former prince, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, removed from the line of royal succession over his links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey...
Heavy rains, deadly floods hit southern Peru; thousands seek shelter
2026-02-24, 03:09Peruvian authorities say they have recovered the bodies of a father and son who died in a mudslide triggered by heavy rains, which have battered the country’s southern regions of Ica and Arequipa, affecting an estimated 5,500 homes and forcing many people to evacuate. Authorities in Arequipa have...
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,461
2026-02-24, 02:14Here is where things stand on Tuesday, February 24:Fighting A man detonated an explosive device beside a police patrol car in central Moscow’s Savyolovsky railway station square, killing one officer and wounding two others, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs said on the Telegram messaging...
Trump set to deliver second term’s first State of the Union: What to expect
2026-02-24, 02:14Washington, DC – United States President Donald Trump is set to deliver the first annual State of the Union address of his second term, a traditionally soaring speech where presidents make the case for their leadership before both chambers of Congress. Trump’s assessment of the state of the “union”...
Trump hits out at reports that top general flagged risks of attacking Iran
2026-02-24, 01:56United States President Donald Trump has lashed out at media reports stating that General Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned him of potential risks of attacking Iran, including becoming entangled in a prolonged conflict and the possibility of US casualties. Trump responded to...
Are the US and Iran moving closer to war?
2026-02-23, 21:44More talks are planned for Thursday between Iran and the United States, which is mobilising its...
Slovakia halts emergency power supplies to Ukraine over Russian oil dispute
2026-02-23, 21:08Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said his country will halt emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine until Kyiv reopens a key pipeline transporting Russian oil to Slovakia, making good on an ultimatum he issued to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Fico’s announcement on Monday came two...
Tourette syndrome campaigner shouts slur at BAFTA ceremony
2026-02-23, 21:08Trump’s new tariff threats trigger economic uncertainty; trade deals stall
2026-02-23, 20:50United States President Donald Trump has ramped up tariff threats following last week’s US Supreme Court decision that ruled that Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, were unlawful. On Monday, Trump said that any countries that wanted to...
US skier Lindsey Vonn reveals leg was nearly amputated
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