Sweeping cuts in humanitarian aid have made pregnancy and childbirth dangerous in parts of Africa, with the Central African Republic among the worst affected nations.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei appears to be taking a more active role as negotiations between the two countries continue following an April 8 truce. aje.news/nn3o2t

The war between Russia and Ukraine has been intensifying for months. More than four years into the conflict, talks to bring the fighting to an end appear to have stalled and the war is expanding. Al Jazeera’s Perry Wilton explains.

Israeli settlers torched Palestinian homes in a village near Ramallah, causing extensive damage to houses, vehicles and farmland. Khirbet Abu Falah has been frequently targeted by settler attacks, with over 30 incidents reported since late March.

"Questioning the behaviour of a foreign state is not the same as denigrating or attacking a people who may have links with that state." — #AJOpinion by @S_Akbarzadeh ⤵️ aje.news/zs9afi

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is facing widespread criticism in Israel for holding off on striking Beirut's southern suburbs from both within his cabinet and his opponents. They say Netanyahu is letting President Trump dictate terms. Al Jazeera’s @nida_journo reports.

As international isolation deepens over reports of sexual abuse and the widening seizure of Gaza, Israel presses on with strikes, demolitions and settler attacks through Eid al-Adha across occupied Palestine. 🔗: aje.news/irydeh

During his testimony before Congress, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is alive and ‘increasingly engaging’ in negotiations. Mojtaba has not been seen since he was reportedly wounded in US-Israeli strikes that killed his father.

Lebanon hopes crunch talks in Washington will halt an Israeli invasion aje.news/2kc672

“I didn't realise that we were having international militaries come here to train on our families’ bodies.” AJ+ series Direct From investigates the connection between bodies donated to US universities and training programmes for Israeli military teams aje.news/nr9v9d

Malak Mahmoud, the heavily pregnant woman filmed being thrown to the ground by a Dutch police officer as her Palestinian husband from Gaza was detained, has spoken to Al Jazeera. Police in Zeist say they are reviewing the use of force and have opened an investigation.

'You're f***ing crazy!' US President Donald Trump reportedly lashed out at Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu during a phone call over Israel's threat to strike Beirut's southern suburbs on Monday. Al Jazeera's @MarahRayan explains.

The Hind Rajab Foundation has called on Indian authorities to arrest Israeli army reservist Eitan Gilboa, who is currently on holiday in northern India, over his alleged role in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. 🔗: aje.news/alsekr

IAEA chief Rafael Grossi says many nuclear activities that were taking place in Iran have now stopped and there is a fundamental change in the assessment of Iran’s nuclear programme because of the war. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/sjilcz

Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has announced a new gov't featuring several members and allies of a party led by sacked PM and estranged ally Ousmane Sonko, who has pledged his group would not join it aje.news/3kq04j

"Afghanistan’s future stability and international standing will depend less on security memoranda with major powers and more on the creation of a political order that enjoys the confidence and support of its own people." — #AJOpinion by @S_MIAKHEL ⤵️ aje.news/t6388e

Alberta will vote in a referendum over whether to separate from Canada - in a move driven by anger over energy policy, conservative politics, and growing tensions with Ottawa. But why now, and what does US President Trump have to do with it? Al Jazeera’s @uroobajamal explains.

BREAKING: US President Donald Trump says he does not know where the ongoing talks with Iran may lead, even as he insists they “have been going on continuously.” 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/7xrbew

An Arctic Ocean stretch called the Bear Gap, between Norway and Svalbard, has become the latest focus of concern about Russia’s military ambitions in the far north. Here is what you need to know aje.news/cnpdwz

Kenyan government spokesperson Isaac Mwaura tells Al Jazeera why Nairobi is backing a US‑funded Ebola quarantine facility despite a court suspension and protests over fears for the country’s already strained health system.

“The Iraqi authorities took our identification papers...and we haven’t seen them since” Flown to Iraq for life-saving medical care, Palestinian patients from Gaza have been stripped of their documents and are confined in a Baghdad medical centre aje.news/f65zt5

Al Jazeera’s @ObaidaHitto is at the scene of Jabal Amel Hospital, which was ‘significantly damaged’ in Israeli attacks across southern Lebanon on Monday. Operating rooms and medical equipment were destroyed in the strikes, as doctors try to continue treating patients there.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is alive and “increasingly engaging”, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said during his testimony before Congress. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/3agv5c

At least five Mozambican nationals have been killed in “xenophobic attacks” in South Africa over the weekend, says the Mozambican government. aje.news/c7mc9t

Iranian authorities are planning a three-day public funeral for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who was killed earlier this year by US-Israeli attacks, IRIB media outlet reported Tehran’s Deputy Mayor Mohammad Amin Tavakolizadeh as saying. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/e6wr2u

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been testifying before a Senate Foreign Relations committee. In an exchange with Congress members, Rubio was challenged to reveal the Trump administration's plan to get Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Al Jazeera's @PattyCulhane reports.

Nepali PM Balendra Shah has reignited a 200-year-old border dispute with India after claiming in parliament that Nepal has also encroached on Indian territory. Here's what you need to know about the two countries' border dispute aje.news/kuuu2w

A bear has injured four people near Fukushima city in Japan. Wildlife is surging in areas evacuated following the 2011 nuclear disaster. Last year 13 people were killed by bears across Japan.

Hundreds have rallied in Albania against plans by a Jared Kushner-linked investment firm to develop Sazan Island and parts of a protected national park into a luxury resort. Anger was fuelled by comments by Ivanka Trump, describing Sazan as a ‘private island’ they ‘discovered’.

Kenya’s High Court has ordered the government to disclose details of a proposed US-linked Ebola quarantine facility, a day after hundreds of people took to the streets in the town of Nanyuki to protest about the planned site. aje.news/d654c0

BREAKING: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says US talks with Iran may include “aspects of their nuclear programme that just a month ago, just a year ago, they were refusing to even mention.” 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/9ne3iz

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Newly released bodycam video shows the moment UK police wrongfully arrested 18-year-old Henry Nowak as he was dying of stab wounds. Nowak had been falsely accused of racially abusing a Sikh man, Vickrum Digwa, who was convicted of murdering Nowak.

Spain has strongly condemned “the resurgence of violence in southern Lebanon, with the expansion of Israeli military operations and attacks by Hezbollah, and calls on the parties to fully respect the ceasefire of 16 April.” 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/83akgk

Israeli air attacks on southern Lebanon have continued, a day after US President Donald Trump said the ‘shooting’ would stop. The strikes targeted areas across the Nabatieh district, causing destruction and leaving several people injured.

BREAKING: ⁠German ⁠Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called on Israel to ⁠exercise restraint in southern Lebanon, as Israel’s attacks and invasion into Lebanese territory expand and the civilian death toll mounts. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/3ykii6

Iran tells Israeli citizens to evacuate northern towns after threatening to walk away from peace talks over planned attacks on Beirut. Al Jazeera’s @mohamedwashere has the latest.

This Palestinian boy in Gaza broke down in tears after his glasses were damaged. Amid Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and blockade on the entry of supplies, it may be impossible for him to replace the glasses.

Destroyed buildings line Lebanon’s streets after Israeli army attacks. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/yvduu6

At least three killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza in several ‘deadly incidents’. One person was killed at a displacement site, while another was killed while driving along one of Gaza’s main roads. Al jazeera's Hani Mahmoud reports. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/yvduu6

Every world leader who has visited China in 2026 in one chart aje.news/50er9l

A tunnel has been discovered running underneath the US-Mexico border, allegedly used to smuggle drugs and weapons between Tijuana and San Diego. US agents seized $45M worth of cocaine in the passage that was hidden beneath a fake discount store.

Attacks on desalination plants and other water infrastructure by US and Israel have exacerbated water woes. 🔗: aje.news/8h84na

Across Africa, social media redefines politics, culture, identity, and connection, blurring community and performance. 🔗: aje.news/3fqroa

Sudanese refugee women in northeastern Central African Republic (CAR) face an increasing risk of dying in childbirth as cuts to US funding hit already fragile maternity services, aid agencies have warned. — in pictures aje.news/wcqhy8

52-year-old Ryan McFarland killed six of his family members and later took his own life when confronted by the police in Muscatine in the US state of Iowa.

Malak Mahmoud, who was heavily pregnant when she was pushed to the ground by a Dutch police officer in Zeist during the detention of her Palestinian husband from Gaza, has spoken to Al Jazeera about the incident. Al Jazeera’s Nour Hegazy reports.

Hundreds of people have been made homeless after a huge fire tore through a market in Jakarta. Drone footage captured the scale of the blaze as thick black smoke billowed over Indonesia’s capital.

With no agreed path to elections, a collapsing transition process and rival claims to constitutional legitimacy, Somalia risks sliding into deeper political fragmentation. 🔗: aje.news/pbxuwk