EXPLAINER ICC Champions Trophy 2025 squads: India, Pakistan and full team lineups How have the teams shaped up and who will lead them? All to know about the eight nations competing in the tournament. Defending champions and hosts Pakistan will be led by Mohammad Rizwan during the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 [File: Rick Rycroft/AP Photo]…
Ukraine has advanced 5km (3 miles) deeper into Russian territory during the past week, as Russia again reportedly deployed North Korean forces against it. But as Kyiv’s forces inched ahead, United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a NATO meeting on Wednesday that it was “unrealistic” to expect a return to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders and…
Australia, China trade barbs over midair encounter above South China Sea Canberra says Chinese jet dropped flares nears its air force plane as China accuses Australia of airspace intrusion. The Australian Defence Force said its Poseidon surveillance plane was flying a “routine” patrol over the contested Paracel Islands in the South China Sea when a…
‘I saw him kill people:’ Libya and Italy’s shadowy migrant deals Migrants sit at a detention center in Gharyan, Libya October 12, 2017 [Hani Amara/Reuters] By Al Jazeera StaffPublished On 13 Feb 202513 Feb 2025 Libya’s Chief of Judicial Police, Osama “Al Masri” Njeem, returned to Libya on an Italian government plane after his arrest in…
Pakistan rolls out red carpet for Turkiye’s Erdogan Turkish leader to hold high-level talks with President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Islamabad. Erdogan was greeted by Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari (left) and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif (right) upon his arrival at the Nur Khan military airbase in Rawalpindi [Handout /…
News Syria FM to join Arab, Western powers at Paris summit to discuss transition Asaad al-Shaibani is attending a conference expected to address issues including Syria’s political transition and the lifting of EU sanctions. Syria’s Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani is leading a delegation to the European Union [Bakr Alkasem/AFP] Published On 13 Feb 202513 Feb…
‘The majority of Greenland’s population wants independence’ Al Jazeera interviews Greenland-based professor Birger Poppel on the rising tensions stoked by US President Donald Trump. People walk near a Inuit clothing shop in Nuuk, Greenland [Sarah Meyssonnier/Reuters] By Ann Charlotte VengsgaardPublished On 13 Feb 202513 Feb 2025 Copenhagen, Denmark – To Donald Trump, the United States president…
Honda, Nissan end merger talks, scuttling $60bn deal The potential tie-up would have created the world’s third-largest automaker, rivaling US and Chinese companies. Nissan reportedly backed out of the talks with larger rival Honda after negotiations were complicated by growing differences, including Honda’s proposal that Nissan become a subsidiary [File: Yuichi Yamazaki/AFP] Published On 13…
Western Australia braces for ‘dangerous’ Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Zelia Australian emergency services warn of potential threat to life and have issued shelter and evacuation warnings as cyclone is due to make landfall. Bulk carrier vessels are loaded with iron ore in Port Hedland, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia [File: Tim Wimborne/Reuters] Published…
Israel killed majority of record number of journalists slain in 2024: CPJ The Committee to Protect Journalists said 2024 was the most dangerous year yet for journalists, with 124 media workers killed. Relatives of Ahmad al-Shayah, a journalist killed in an Israeli drone attack on a charity facility, mourn by his shrouded body at Nasser…