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Nepal Disaster: Survivors Rescued as Thousands Remain Missing
Two Nepalese workers rescued after 10 days trapped underground offer a glimmer of hope amid a devastating disaster. As thousands remain missing, Nepal is calling for greater inter…
Bolivian military barracks explosion kills at least 10 | AJ #shorts
An explosion at a military barracks in Viacha, Bolivia, has killed at least 10 people and injured dozens following a blast at a facility storing fireworks and other pyrotechnics. …
Why Togo wants the world to redraw its maps
Togo has secured overwhelming support at the United Nations for a resolution promoting more geographically accurate world maps, challenging the widely used Mercator projection. Th…
Families of missing Ecuadorian fishermen allege US involvement | AJ #shorts
The families of eight Ecuadorian fishermen who vanished at sea after reporting US surveillance are demanding answers. They believe the men could be victims of a US drone strike or…
UN approves new map showing Africa’s true size #ajshorts
The UN General Assembly has backed a resolution to change to maps that more accurately show the true size of Africa. Supporters of the resolution say the widely used, and centurie…
Did Israel’s destruction of Gaza worsen its water crisis?
Scientists say Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s sewage system may have worsened the Mediterranean's algae bloom crisis. The bloom has knocked out five of six Israeli desalination pl…
Trump sends envoys to Russia, Ukraine with new peace plan | AJ Shorts
Al Jazeera’s Kimberly Halkett reports that US President Donald Trump is sending envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff to Moscow and Kyiv with a proposal aimed at ending the war i…
US mail-in voting rules face legal battle ahead of midterm elections
Mail-in voting has become the centre of an intensifying legal and political battle in the United States ahead of the midterm elections. President Donald Trump has repeatedly oppos…
Cuba unveils economic reforms as energy crisis deepens under US sanctions
Cuba is introducing major economic reforms as the country struggles with severe fuel and electricity shortages and a deepening economic crisis. The government is opening parts of …
Asylum seekers caught in US immigration crackdown | AJ Shorts
Dree Collopy, an immigration lawyer, says the new US visa policy risks turning the legal immigration system into another detention tool. She argues it could make people who lawful…
Judge declares mistrial in Lindsay Clancy children’s murder case | AJ #shorts
The high-profile case of Lindsay Clancy, the US mother charged with murdering her three children, has ended in a mistrial after jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict, leaving…
Nigel Farage rejects illegal funding claims as reform UK faces scrutiny
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has rejected allegations of illegal funding from the United States as the party faces growing scrutiny over its finances. Secretly filmed footage rep…
Trump revives Russia-Ukraine peace push as envoys head to Moscow and Kyiv
The United States is reviving efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war, with President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner set to visit Moscow and Kyiv. Trump says …
UK rejects Milei’s Falkland Islands claims as a sovereignty dispute continues
The UK has rejected Argentine President Javier Milei’s latest claims over the Falkland Islands, reaffirming its position that the islands remain British. UK officials, including F…
US sanctions Turkish bank as pressure on Iran intensifies
The United States has sanctioned a Turkish bank as Washington intensifies economic pressure on Iran. The US Treasury Department accused Golden Global and its subsidiaries of helpi…
US regulator opens safety investigation as Tesla launches driverless taxis | AJ #shorts
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened up an investigation into whether Tesla’s new self-driving Cybercab meets federal safety standards. The company lau…
Kushner and Witkoff head to Kyiv for the first time in a push for peace
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the negotiators Donald Trump tasked with resolving the Russia-Ukraine war, are visiting Moscow and Kyiv this weekend, the first time they have tra…
Nigel Farage heckled as he denies Reform UK took illegal funding
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was heckled by protesters on Friday, as he addressed the party’s conference in Birmingham. Farage dismissed the findings of an investigative report t…
Inside Trump's new immigration overhaul and rules | This is America
The Trump administration is preparing to revoke up to 200,000 visas from people who entered the U.S. legally and later sought asylum, in what would be the largest mass visa revoca…
Mexico seizes 17 tonnes of meth in $347 million drug bust
Mexican authorities seized nearly 17 tonnes of methamphetamine from three clandestine laboratories in Sinaloa and dismantled the 5,700-square-metre facility where the drugs were p…
Trump calls Iran war ‘small potatoes’, compares US deaths with Vietnam war
US President Donald Trump called the war with Iran ‘small potatoes’, saying just 18 Americans had been killed compared with 100,000 in Vietnam. He called US strikes ‘intermittent’…
Trump sees 'good chance' to end Ukraine war as envoys head to Moscow
US President Donald Trump says there may be a "good chance" of ending the war in Ukraine, as envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner travel to Moscow and Kyiv this weekend, carryin…
Israeli drones drop bombs on southern Lebanon’s Mansouri | #AJ shorts
Several explosions rocked the southern Lebanese town of Mansouri after Israeli military drones dropped explosives in the area. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe …
Russian drone strikes Ukraine's security service HQ in central Kyiv
A police car blocks the road to the headquarters of Ukraine's SBU security service in central Kyiv, hit on Friday afternoon by what appeared to be a Russian drone. The strike is u…
Nepal rescues two hydropower workers alive as hopes fade for others
Search crews in Nepal have rescued two workers from a hydropower plant on the Trishuli River, nine days after they were trapped by a devastating flash flood. The government believ…
Israeli bulldozers raze occupied West Bank village as residents vow to rebuild
Israeli bulldozers have flattened the Palestinian village of Khirbet Al Tabban in Masafer Yatta, in the southern occupied West Bank. Not a single home was left standing, and lives…
Moment two workers are pulled alive from Nepal tunnel
Rescuers pulled two workers alive from a hydropower tunnel in Nepal nine days after a glacier collapse buried the site in ice, rock and mud. Their rescue offers renewed hope as te…
Exclusive: inside Sudan's Bara after the army retakes the shattered town
The Sudanese army has retaken Bara, a strategic town in North Kordofan state that had been held by the Rapid Support Forces since July. But the victory has come at a devastating c…
Indonesia wildfires send toxic haze across Southeast Asia | #AJ shorts
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Will Europe pay the U.S. for military aid to Ukraine? | Inside Story
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the U.S. has provided Kyiv with billions of dollars in military assistance. Much of it was delivered during the Biden administration. Pr…