Kyiv residents shelter at a train station during Russian air raids [ AFP via Getty Images ] Russia has used a record number of ballistic missiles to target Ukraine's energy sector, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. The combined missile and drone strikes hit power plants and infrastructure in Kyiv and multiple locations causing "the most powerful blow" so far this year, according to private energy company DTEK. The strikes were launched as temperatures dropped to -20C (-4

With the global spotlight shifting from Gaza, the campaign to isolate Israel has never been more urgent, experts say. A billboard in Times Square displays the message 'Israel is committing genocide' as part of a campaign by Game Over Israel calling for a boycott of Israel by national football federations over the war in Gaza [Jeenah Moon | Reuters] Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has pushed the plight of the Palestinian people to the forefront of global attention. For more tha

The number of deaths, injuries and missing is approaching a grim milestone after nearly four years of fighting. The funeral of a Ukrainian soldier in Uzhhorod, Ukraine, last year. The latest accounting of casualties came after talks among Russian, Ukrainian and American officials ended on Saturday on a rare positive note. (Photo via Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times.) The number of Russian and Ukrainian troops killed, wounded or missing during nearly four years of war is

A huge military operation to recover a single Israeli body exposes a grim moral paradox: Precise forensics for the occupier, and mass graves and lost identity for the occupied and bombarded. Health and civilian workers conduct a mass burial of Palestinians at a cemetery in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on November 10, 2025 [Bashar Taleb/AFP] To retrieve one body, the Israeli military mobilised a fleet of tanks, drones, and what locals described as “explosive robots

Australian taxpayers are subsidising the Israel Defense Forces and illegal settlements in the West Bank via Australian charities. Stephanie Tran reports.

The case now unfolding at the International Court of Justice is not only about Myanmar. It is about the moral weather of the international system, and whether the promise made after 1945 still has meaning when confronted with raw power, strategic convenience, and deliberate cruelty.

The US has announced the launch of ‘phase two’ of plan to end the Gaza war, but most of the goals in Trump’s 20-point plan never became a reality on the ground. Al Jazeera The US has announced the Gaza ceasefire is moving to phase two, where “demilitarisation, technocratic governance, and reconstruction” will be the focus. Hamas leaders and representatives of other Palestinian factions in Gaza are in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, for talks, but deep uncertainty remains regard

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces attacks an army base in the southeastern city of Sinja with drones. The Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces reportedly launched the drone attack as a warning to government forces returning to Khartoum [File: Ashraf Shazly/AFP] The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed 27 people in a reported drone attack on a Sudanese army base in the southeastern city of Sinja, a military source told Al Jazeera. Monday’s attack co

Gambia, Myanmar to Present Their Arguments Before World Court Rohingya walk through rice fields after fleeing across the border from Myanmar to Bangladesh near Teknaf, September 1, 2017. © 2017 AP Photo/Bernat Armangue (The Hague) –  International Court of Justice  (ICJ) hearings in the  Myanmar genocide case highlight the need for justice for the ethnic Rohingya, Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK, Global Justice Center, Human Rights Watch, Refugee Women for Peace and Justice

As Israel's genocide continues unchecked, we must examine how the destructive forces of imperialism are transforming the region A Palestinian woman cries as she carries the body of a baby killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza City, before a funeral procession outside al-Shifa hospital, on 4 September 2025 (Omar al-Qattaa/AFP) In recent days, 168 Palestinians were certified as medical doctors next to the ruins of Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital; 500 were celebrated at al-Shati camp for